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Fritz Baugh
Uh-oh... Message 1 - 2011-04-16 at 15:14:32
http://forums.boom-studios.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2647

Quote:I just went to the previews order form for july on the previews web site and there are no listings for uncle scrooge, donald duck, mickey mouse or walt disney's comics and stories, only the three disney afternoon titles. I hope they haven't been canceled.
He's right, too:

http://previewsworld.com/support/previews_docs/orderforms/MAY11_COF.txt

No response from anyone as of this writing.

This is not good for my digestion. Am I going to have to drag out that picture of Deadpool on the WDC 715 cover again?
Baar Baar Jinx
Uh-oh... Message 2 - 2011-04-16 at 15:37:22
This is a very bad sign. The fact that no-one from Kaboom has responded does not augur well. Just when the books were getting it all right! Does anyone have any further information?
Roger North
Uh-oh... Message 3 - 2011-04-16 at 16:33:50
It would be a bummer if they cancelled the classic Disney comics titles.
Patrick Hanifin
Uh-oh... Message 4 - 2011-04-16 at 16:46:30
Not to mention that the release of the first in the series of the Don Rosa Donald Duck collection of stories has been pushed away until June.

Patrick
www.PatrickHanifin.com
www.SqueakyCleanComedy.com
Mcduck_Enterprises
Uh-oh... Message 5 - 2011-04-17 at 05:54:26
Hmmmm. Let's hit #400 and #700 with two of our main titles and then cancel them? Let's also shoot ourselves in the foot....I doubt this is intentional and we'll probably see these all picked up by Marvel soon. I'm pretty sure that Boom, Kaboom, Marvel or whomever is not going to kill off WDC&S and US after they've been around longer than most of the comics and characters that are published today. But who knows, maybe it's an end of an era and of course no one wants to tell us.......I guess we'll just have to see what comes down the river.
GeoX
Uh-oh... Message 6 - 2011-04-17 at 06:34:19
Um, we'll see, I guess; obviously it would suck and I would never ever forgive Boom if everything really was canceled, but I tend to think you guys are jumping the gun just a bit here.
Charlie Brown
Uh-oh... Message 7 - 2011-04-17 at 09:38:20
Doesn't sound good. I wondered yesterday why the subscription of Uncle Scrooge has been removed from the BOOM webshop.
Mcduck_Enterprises
Uh-oh... Message 8 - 2011-04-17 at 13:29:11
The subscription links for all of the main Disney titles is gone.....but Ducktales adn the rest of the Disney Afternoon stuff still has there subscription links. Something's up and no one telling.....Remember when Gemstone closed up. Same feeling here. Might be jumping the gun, but they would respond by now if something was just minor......
Baar Baar Jinx
Uh-oh... Message 9 - 2011-04-17 at 14:39:06
Quote from user: Mcduck_EnterprisesThe subscription links for all of the main Disney titles is gone.....but Ducktales adn the rest of the Disney Afternoon stuff still has there subscription links. Something's up and no one telling.....Remember when Gemstone closed up. Same feeling here. Might be jumping the gun, but they would respond by now if something was just minor......
Unfortunately, much as I fervently hope otherwise, all the circumstantial evidence now seems to point towards Boom/Kaboom having either given up the classic license or, more likely, had it taken away ... and my guess is that Disney/Marvel will be picking it up soon. Strange that they apparently still have the Disney afternoon license, but that holds little interest to me when we don't have a definite word on the classics. This is too reminiscent of Disney themselves pulling the rug from under the highly successful Gladstone line in the early nineties ...
Fritz Baugh
Uh-oh... Message 10 - 2011-04-17 at 16:07:14
Interestingly enough, I just looked and CDRR doesn't have a subscription offered anymore, either.
For what little it might be worth, the July listings do mention Disney Four Color Adventures Vol.1 and Disney Treasury: Donald Duck Vol. 2
Gah....I want Marvel publishing the books about as much as I want my other foot sawed off.
If the classic titles are gone, I'm probably done with Boom. I'll finish Darkwing Duck and CDRR's current story lines, then they're being dropped. Forget even trying their new Ducktales. And Marvel's only prayer with me if they get the classic titles is to continue where Boom's numbers left off--it'll be a cold day on Rippan Taro before I give Joe Quesada the money for a new Uncle Scrooge #1.
Patrick Hanifin
Uh-oh... Message 11 - 2011-04-17 at 16:19:41
They barely even got going with their classics. As it was I had to drive aound hunting to several different comic book stores to find the issues. My local comic book store owner said they were selling well with the classic stories in them and he was going to increase his orders to meet demand.

Boom made such a big deal about this in the beginning and now they may be gone before they hardly even got started. They weren't even around long enough to get a letter column going. Very disappointing... At least I got the Universal Solvent story all together now in one issue and a few really cool Carl Barks paintings on covers!

I also think it's completely lame that the BOOM's Website doesn't let it's supporters know what's happening about this. Gladstone was a class act. BOOM always acted like they were superior to their supporters with stupid childish answers to questions (not all their readers are 9 year olds) and even restricted their reader's comments. I never liked that... especially after they tried to pull us over there from this forum.

Patrick
www.PatrickHanifin.com
www.SqueakyCleanComedy.com
GeoX
Uh-oh... Message 12 - 2011-04-17 at 16:23:26
ARGH. If true--and the circumstantial evidence certainly supports the idea--this sucks SO MUCH. I guess I always sort of thought in the back of my mind that Boom's run would have an expiration date, but I sure didn't think it would be as abortive as this. So we get, what, SIX MONTHS of awesomeness, and then bam, we're done? FUCK.
C'mon, Boom people--at least have the decency to SAY something, one way or t'other.
Jano
Uh-oh... Message 13 - 2011-04-17 at 16:24:29
Quote from user: Patrick HanifinThey weren't even around long enough to get a letter column going.

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BOOM always acted like they were superior to their supporters with stupid childish answers to questions (not all their readers are 9 year olds) and even restricted their reader's comments.
I'm pretty sure they could have included letters if they really had wanted to. As to the reasons why they didn't - you're giving the answer yourself.
GeoX
Uh-oh... Message 14 - 2011-04-17 at 16:39:43
They had letters in a few issues, albeit not especially substantial ones. But you know, I can't deny it: the general Boom editorial attitude was one of people who were TRYING, but who didn't really exactly understand what the deal was with this stuff that we all love--hence, all the flailing around with "genre"-type stuff for their first few years, and then their weirdly hyperbolic rhetoric regarding the classic material. The comparison with Gemstone is not flattering to them in this regard. Still, I didn't care THAT much, as long as they were at least putting out good material. ARGH, again. I forlornly hope that someone else will pick up the baton and do a more sustained job. David Gerstein for editor, dammit.
I still hold out hope that there is a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation, but the fact that the Boom site no longer lists subscriptions for the classics seems pretty damning.
Dutch Duckfan Down Under
Uh-oh... Message 15 - 2011-04-17 at 19:40:36
What the... It seems like every Disney publisher seems to publish Disney comics shorter than the previous one. Gemstone just got 5 years, Boom's only been around here for 2 years. It would be a very big shame if Disney comics got canceled - again. Just now, when they're going the right way. I want the WDC and FC Archives!!!
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