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Ugh... that's offensively bad.
Not only is it insulting to me as a customer to release something that terrible and expect me to pay for it, but it actually embarrasses me as someone who strives to see Disney comics get more respect in the North American market.

Don't worry! DuckTales #4 is gonna be AWESOME - here's a preview... KABOOM, bitches!!!
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa436/DuckburgUSA/DT4Preview.jpg

Poor Warren Spector can't catch a break. Between this and Epic Mickey, he's not exactly on a hot streak.

Quote from user: DuckburgUSADon't worry! DuckTales #4 is gonna be AWESOME - here's a preview... KABOOM, bitches!!!

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa436/DuckburgUSA/DT4Preview.jpg
ROFL!!!

To be honest, I thought Ducktales #1 and #2 didn't look that bad (worse than DWD and CDRR, sure, but not *that* bad, I mean it still looked like it was produced by professional artists)
And the rest of Ducktales #3 is more or less the same quality, EXCEPT for 2 or 3 pages that were clearly handled by someone who wasn't an artist.
Did they lose these pages at the last minute, just when it was supposed to go to print??
What would it have cost them to delay this by a week instead?

Quote:Poor Warren Spector can't catch a break. Between this and Epic Mickey, he's not exactly on a hot streak.
I'm still giving Warren the benefit of the doubt. Epic Mickey was GREAT, and the only major point that was criticised by the reviews wasn't the story but the camera.
I think he was just too overbooked to do this Ducktales comic and/or someone at Boom! ruined his work on it.

Quote from user: steetI'm still giving Warren the benefit of the doubt. Epic Mickey was GREAT, and the only major point that was criticised by the reviews wasn't the story but the camera.
While I'm sure you're not the only one who thinks it was GREAT, the lackluster reviews suggest that it's a minority opinion. Regardless, though, today's big-budget videogames are worked on by HOW many hundreds of people? I think it would be a bit much to suggest that the producer should get the lion's share of the credit. Besides which, making a videogame has exactly nothing to do with telling a comic-book story. The evidence would seem to suggest that he's simply not very good at the latter. I'm pretty sure the only reason he was hired to do it was from some perception that the series' profile would be improved if it could be associated with a guy who worked on a Disney videogame.

...and although what's happening with the Ducktales comic is kind of tragic, DuckburgUSA's image is still hilarious.

Let me clarify something that may not have been picked up on previously: the repeated panels I used to make the gag DuckTales #4 preview are not only enlarged & repeated, AND poorly drawn/edited, AND out of sync with Rockerduck's exclamation to Cinnamon...

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa436/DuckburgUSA/DT3OffendingPanel.jpg

...but Rockerduck is NOT addressing Mr. Billups in this panel either. That dog-nosed character you see with the Fonzie 'do is his Butler, Jeeves! Mr. Billups (as he is called in this continuity) is the curator of the Duckburg Museum. You know, the white bearded gent from Carl Barks' "The Golden Helmet"? So there's another flaw to this steaming pile of a comic page: two terribly drawn panels with lousy color enlarged and repeated and the character's dialogue is directed to the wrong individual TWICE.

But the damage already began in kaboom!'s DuckTales #1. Observe these panels from page 18 as Webby and Scrooge have just cast off for Rippan Taro:

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa436/DuckburgUSA/DT1A.jpg

OK - Launchpad's coming too. He's clearly present in panel 1 and visible through the porthole window in panel 2. Probably a good idea to have some muscle & comic relief on such a voyage. But wait a minute - when they have some bad weather and a high-seas adventure, L.P.'s nowhere to be found? By page 22 when they reach the island, guess who flies in?

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa436/DuckburgUSA/DT1B.jpg

So Launchpad wasn't supposed to be on the boat at all. Oopsies, that's a pretty big thing to overlook, all you hard-working kaboom! "editors." But it goes to show you the returns on this book have been diminishing since before issue #1 even ended. You can reference this in your copy of kaboom!'s DuckTales #1. I swear to Barks I've only scanned the images in, and did not manipulate the art.

Life IS like a hurricane and it tore through your wallets and hopes, leaving some bad feelings behind. But that's cool, 'cuz we can still order that $9.99 variant DuckTales #1 Cover C, right? I'd really like to see the BOOM! hype machine try and argue any of this. But they're probably too busy drafting this week's e-mail blast to their entire address book to "make sure you pre-order our titles from your local comics shop and put off that pesky trade-waiting!"

KABOOM, bitches!!!

The phrase 'flagship title' is getting less and less meaning lately.