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Darkwing Duck#6 Review Boom! Comics continues one of my old favorities as they continue the adventures of Darkwing Duck. This is the Crisis of Infinite Darkwings, continuing their plays on comic titles. NegaDuck and Magica de Spell are dimension-hopping, collecting Darkwing Dopplegangers, hyponitizing them, and turning them loose on St. Canard, wreaking havoc and destroying DW’s good name. There is also something odd going on with the water, as it seems to keep coming to life and grabbing people, but the enraged (and easily led) citizenry are blaming Darkwing for that, too. DW finally decides to take action, and embarks on a plan for he and Morgana to track down the water-hazard quite publicly at a press confrence.
Where most prior Disney Afternoon series included at least some characters from classic Disney animation, Darkwing Duck featured a completely original cast. Even the DuckTales characters it reused had no counterpart in early Disney shorts or even the Carl Barks comics. It was also the first Disney Afternoon cartoon to emphasize action rather than adventure, with Darkwing routinely engaging in slapstick battles with both supervillains and street criminals. While conflict with villains was routine in earlier Disney Afternoon, actual fight scenes were relatively rare.
Darkwing Duck was also the first Disney Afternoon property that was produced completely as a genre parody. Prior shows would contain elements of parody in certain episodes, but would otherwise be straight-faced adventure concepts in the tradition of Carl Barks' work in the Disney comics. By contrast, every episode of Darkwing Duck is laden with references to superhero, pulp adventure, or super-spy fiction.
Disney Comics published a four-issue Darkwing Duck comic book mini-series in late 1991, right around the time of the show's syndicated premiere. This mini-series was an adaptation of a draft of the script for Darkly Dawns the Duck . Like the TaleSpin comic before it, it was meant to spin off a regular comic series, but the Disney Comics implosion happening at the time prevented that plan. However, Darkwing Duck stories were regularly printed in Disney Adventures magazine between the November 1991 and January 1996 issues. Additionally, Darkwing Duck stories were also regularly featured in Marvel Comics' short-lived Disney Afternoon comic book.
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