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To Infinite Darkwings and Beyond
14 years ago
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http://www.amazon.com/Darkwing-Duck.....f=cm_cr-mr-img
reviewed by Roochak
What a fine series this is turning out to be! For a kid-friendly superhero action comedy, there's more going on in these stories than you'd expect. Where Darkwing Duck: The Duck Knight Returns was, for all the gags, a story about aging, disillusionment and compromise, the theme running through Crisis on Infinite Darkwings is one of loss: lost loves, lost memories, lost lives, the loss of everything precious. Even Negaduck has a fleeting, poignant moment of something more than mindless destruction...before he channels it, of course, into more mindless destruction.
In this story arc, St. Canard is overrun by an army of mind-controlled Darkwings, kidnapped from other dimensions and unleashed on the terrified populace by the gruesome twosome of Negaduck and Magica deSpell. James Silvani's gorgeous pen lines, dynamic, widescreen compositions, and penchant for cramming his panels with Easter eggs is as tasty a serving of eye candy as in the previous volume, and his visuals (an anthropomorphic riff on George Perez's jam-packed superhero team-up extravaganzas of the '80s) are a lovely interpretation of Ian Brill's zany but surprisingly subtle scripts. Don't miss out on this one.
reviewed by Roochak
What a fine series this is turning out to be! For a kid-friendly superhero action comedy, there's more going on in these stories than you'd expect. Where Darkwing Duck: The Duck Knight Returns was, for all the gags, a story about aging, disillusionment and compromise, the theme running through Crisis on Infinite Darkwings is one of loss: lost loves, lost memories, lost lives, the loss of everything precious. Even Negaduck has a fleeting, poignant moment of something more than mindless destruction...before he channels it, of course, into more mindless destruction.
In this story arc, St. Canard is overrun by an army of mind-controlled Darkwings, kidnapped from other dimensions and unleashed on the terrified populace by the gruesome twosome of Negaduck and Magica deSpell. James Silvani's gorgeous pen lines, dynamic, widescreen compositions, and penchant for cramming his panels with Easter eggs is as tasty a serving of eye candy as in the previous volume, and his visuals (an anthropomorphic riff on George Perez's jam-packed superhero team-up extravaganzas of the '80s) are a lovely interpretation of Ian Brill's zany but surprisingly subtle scripts. Don't miss out on this one.
Yeah this was a fun one, picking out all the references and identifying all the characters.
And yah, there's just countless of references. Doctor Who, the Beatles, I can't even remember them all now XD
With life being what it is, I could use a hell of a lot less matured and serious and tragic and abused, and a whole lot more chipper fluff. Let's face it, how many gut-ripping Joker expies do we really need? We have enough Hannibal Lectures to blithely quote while our Uberman-wannabe characters torture imaginary bystanders.