Disney LongBox Reviews: Uncle Scrooge #16

SCROOGE’S LAST ADVENTURE PART 4 of 4

FIRST PUBLISHED IN TOPOLINO #2988 (2013)

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: ITALY

FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN THE USA

Our conclusion  begins with the Beagle Boys being spooked by the Duck Avenger’s attack last night as they invade John D. Rockerduck’s house to get their cut of the money from the attack on Scrooge’s bin.

The Boys warn that if Rockerduck doesn’t pay up the missing acres which were taken by Magica with his own money, they will blab everything to the cops as Rockerduck panics.

Glomgold shows up to inform Rockerduck this is what happens when you deal with amateurs and proposes to get rid of the Beagle Boys permanently.

The boys talk about the plan until Rockerduck’s butler interrupts them with a sudden news interview about Scrooge’s disappearance as Donald announces Scrooge has vanished during his last adventure.

Rockerduck starts getting worried about Scrooge having died since while he wanted to crush his empire , he did not want it to affect his own life. Glomgold tells him to let it go like he did when he crushed his mother’s dreams as suddenly a problem occurs at Killmotor Hill.

Turns out Daisy and Grandma Duck are holding a bake sale and a protest in front of Killmotor Hill in order to try and save it. People start signing the protest since to them Scrooge meant a lot to Duckburg since he has done so much for them over the years.

Glomgold soon shows up to put a stop to it as he orders the citizens to get off his property. The Mayor shows up to try and reason with Glomgold but he eventually blackmails the Mayor by saying he would move his operations to Goosetown if he sides with the protestors.

A cloaked Scrooge and Donald watch in horror as they soon hope Phase 2 goes as planned. They plant Fethry as a worker at the construction site to try and slow down the demolition of Killmotor Hill.

It goes about as well as you would think

Later that night, Scrooge begins the next phase of his plan as Donald zaps him with Gyro’s latest invention making him transparent as he prepares to pose as a ghost to scare Rockerduck.

He enters his room as Scrooge begins haunting Rockerduck claiming he and Glomgold killed him when they took everything from him and warns Rockerduck that Glomgold will want to get rid of him to be the last duck in the picture.

He tells him to add a third partner into the deal and suggests the Pasha of Pushback and give him all the rights to his old companies and not to tell Glomgold. He soon vanishes as a startled Rockerduck told him he had many questions left unanswered.

Rockerduck wakes up the morning to discover the Pasha’s parade has taken over downtown Duckburg as he heads over to the Duckburg Plaza to meet with the Pasha.

He tells the Pasha about the deal involving Scrooge’s former assets and how he feels Glomgold could no longer be trusted. He presents the Pasha with the contract as he signs another deal in return to keep it confidential. Pasha soon accepts another visitor which turns out to be Glomgold.

Pasha proposes another deal to Glomgold to take over Rockerduck’s part of the empire since McDuck and himself had a diamond wager once that the Pasha had lost. Pasha talks to him about his waste plants and proposes that he finances any future plant being built

Glomgold eventually leaves as it is revealed that it was all a fluke as the Pasha was actually  Jubal Pomp ( From Uncle Scrooge #12) and the vizier was Scrooge. The two talk about how  the Duck Avenger will tie things up with the Beagle Boys.

Donald (disguised as the Duck Avenger who has his own title in August wink wink) enters his former house to find the Beagle Boys as he soon finds no one was home. He uses his tracking device to find them at an old wharf where Glomgold’s goons were about to make them swim with the fishes.

Will Duck Avenger save the Beagle Boys ? Will Scrooge manage to outsmart Rockerduck and Glomgold once and for all ? Well yeah since this is the last part but if you want all the juicy details, you will have to pick up the comic for yourself folks.

TROUBLE INDEMNITY

FIRST PUBLISHED IN DONALD DUCK #22 (2009)

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: NETHERLANDS

FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN THE USA 

This is a short story about how Scrooge is getting worried about insurance since the Beagle Boys are once again out of jail. Donald, having just earned a new job as a insurance agent sells Scrooge some insurance which turns out was useless since it was from his own company.

 

OVERALL THOUGHTS

SCROOGE’S LAST ADVENTURE PART 4

Satisfying conclusion to a great Scrooge adventure. At times it reminded me of the 1990 adventure Scrooge’s Quest about how Magica, Glomgold and the Beagle Boys take everything away from Scrooge and he has to fight back with his mind to win it back. This story does it much better since it isn’t bundled with filler stories and superior art. I give it a full recommendation once it hits TP

TROUBLE INDEMNITY

Not much to say about this one honestly, its just a small Scrooge tale about how Donald made a mistake…. again. Art is good but some backgrounds are bare bones.

CREDITS: 

WRITERS: Francesco Artibani ( STORY 1) Gerber Janssen and Mau Heymans  ( STORY 2)

ARTISTS: Alessandro Perina ( STORY 1) Mau Heymans ( STORY 2)

EDITOR : SARAH GAYDOS

ARCHIVAL EDITOR: DAVID GERSTEIN

PUBLISHER: IDW AND DISNEY COMICS