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CDRR's remaing issues are already finished, it won't continue after issue eight. Castellani is also no longer working with BOOM, so DuckTales will most likely continue to be drawn by Massaroli.

A shame that Castellani has departed. He was not well served by the scripts he got in RESCUE RANGERS.

DT #3... ugh, what a train wreck! I got APE's RICHIE RICH #3 the same day. If you'd told me a while back that I would enjoy RR #3 more than DT #3... but I did. James Silvani does a good job with the "updated" RICHIE characters in the lead story, btw.

I thought it was nice to see Spector finally acknowledge some series continuity with the character of Cinnamon. Gladstone as Agent X might be interesting. I know it's not the first time someone tried to use Gladstone's luck against Scrooge, but who knows - maybe Spector can do it differently. I did have a few issues with the issue though. Firstly, based on the story description (http://comicbookrealm.com/previews/3082/kaboom-ducktales-issue-3/), it seemed like Donald Duck would have a major role in the story. Then again, the story itself hardly matched the description. So did Cover A for that matter as the scene never actually happened in the book. Even the crown on Cover B more closely resembled its DuckTales version while in the story itself it looked closer to Barks'. Anyway I was actually hoping when this new series was announced that Donald would have a more major role in the series as a whole, but no such luck. Just a completely wasted cameo. Even when everyone seems to be within a hundred feet of each other, Scrooge, the Nephews, Donald, Daisy and Gladstone never even all interact. Secondly, I would think that even someone as confident as Gladstone would seem at least a little nervous about having lost his memory, but he just seems happy-go-lucky as ever. Also strange that - even under a trance - he would refer to Scrooge as "Scroogey." Then again I suppose completely removing him from Scrooge's family tree wouldn't be the least of Spector's changes. Plus not once but twice does someone refer to Scrooge as "Mr. Scrooge." I know it's a common grammatical error among foreigners, but as far as we can tell, Farquardt and the museum curator seem to be American. So is Spector, so it can't be a translation error. So Scrooge finally encounters a Beagle Boy he never met before - and identifies him as as 716-716. Again I have mixed feelings about Spector's reverting all of the series' changes back to Barks. Granted the DuckTales versions of the Beagle Boys seemed more inspired by the Three Stooges than by Barks' Beagle Boys, but they were nonetheless an essential aspect of that universe. As for the art - what is with the bottom panel with Daisy meeting Gladstone, Webby and the Nephews walking and Scrooge, Launchpad and Farqaurdt driving away. Louie, Webby and Gladstone's feet appear to be off the ground. I know they're ducks but come on! And Rockerduck is apparently talking to Cinnamon either off-panel or on an off-screen telephone. So where is she???

I Can't believe they published such poor quality art, and such dull and silly dialogue. Several of us who post in our Fanfiction sections (drawing and writing) could do a LOT better.

Many of the 8-10 year old fans who have drawn gag pages and stories in drawing contests sponsored by Sanoma Uitgevers and published in The Dutch Donald Duck Weekly have produced better art than that. It's pitiful. It is unbelievable that the editors of Boom! would risk having their company's reputation be so besmirched. They'll be a laughingstock when they bid on contract jobs in future.

It looks like the book was rushed, and like they possibly ran out of money for art. That page looks as if someone other than the artist (editor? marketing guy?) did a quick 'n dirty tracing job, then copied and pasted those characters in Photoshop.
It would've been better to ship a book late than ship THAT.
Whatever the reason, it looks as if Boom! simply doesn't care anymore.
I think it's time to take Old Yeller out back. :(