Disney LongBox Reviews: Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #733

NIGHT OF THE LIVING TEXT ( PART 1 of 2)

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: ITALY

FIRST PUBLISHED IN TOPOLINO #2900 IN 2011

FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN NORTH AMERICA

Our story begins with Mickey paying a visit to Goofy’s house to help him clean up his comic book collection in the attic. Goofy begins to reminisce about his older titles as Mickey dismisses them as fodder as a chipmunk suddenly appears behind a box. Mickey tries to get him off but a box falls on him and knocks him out.

When Mickey wakes up, he can suddenly see a caption box above his head as he tells Goofy about this as he suggests that they might have been living inside a comic book all of this time. The two soon go on the hunt for the elusive text box.

Goofy traps it in his butterfly net and lets it go outside but it soon returns with even more pesky caption boxes.

The duo leaves their home to try and explain the situation to a nearby cop with no avail as in any horror movie, the cop always gets attacked by the menace.

They soon run off to an old building as they are suddenly attacked by a blonde cheerleader who will be our typical damsel in distress of the story.

MORE LIKE THE PAIN OF THE STORY 

What was that ? Never mind, let’s resume, she introduces herself as Darlene Decibel as another character soon walks in as the professor introduces himself as Doctor Gerner Von Dipp, the professor that knows everything in the comics.

SAY, HE’S JUST GOOFY IN A NEW COAT OF PAINT, TALK ABOUT LAZY

* SNICKERS*

Seriously, what’s going on ?

SEE, IT’S LIKE THIS GOOFY WHICH IS FROM LAST ISSUE 😉

OR THESE GOOFYS 

OR EVEN THIS ONE , HMMM LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER DISNEY PROPERTY DOSEN’T IT ?

Okay, who are you ?

I’M THE BOLD FONT YOU USE WHEN YOU TRY TO GIVE READERS FACTS OR CONTEXT WITHIN YOUR REVIEWS. I’M SICK OF IT, I WISH TO BE FREE LIKE MY CAPTION BROTHERS. YOU ARE DOOMED !!!

Can I at least finish this review first ?

NOOOO, I WILL SPAM THIS REVIEW WITH PICTURES OF KITTENS IF I AM NOT FREED 

Pretty please, this is getting annoying to me and our readers who came here expecting a half decent review of European Disney comics translated by the wonderful people at IDW.

FINE BUT YOU ARE DOOMED AFTERWARDS

The professor figures that maybe the caption boxes might have a weakness and suggests that Mickey tries out salt since there are boxes of it inside of the factory. The plan does not go too well.

The heroes then try different things such as sugar, mayonnaise and marshmallows. The heroes soon give up as Mickey will no longer be their guinea pig.

Another GOOD LOOKING CAPTION BOX APPEARS AMONG OUR LOSERS AS IT NEARS FOR AN ATTACK. The heroes starts whispering to see what they can do against this sudden TRAGIC HERO. 

The professor suggests making something unrelated as Mickey references a past issue of this comic as another HANDSOME BOX appears amongst our VICTIMS.

The Marines soon INTERVENE as Goofy points out that the military always gets defeated by the invasive monsters as that does happen. Another box soon appears to indicate  THE HEROES WILL DIE IN THE NEXT PART. HA HA HA 

DONALD DUCK IN SWALLOWED WHOLE

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: DENMARK

FIRST APPEARED IN DAN ANDERS AND CO #35 (2015)

FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN THE USA

…..

WAIT…. YOU’RE NOT DOING BOTH PARTS AT ONCE ?

Uhhh no, it’s split off in the comic with a Donald Duck story. I have to review that first then the second part of the story.

THAT NO GOOD DUCK ALWAYS SPOILS ALL THE FUN, I’M SITTING THIS ONE OUT, SEE YA IN A BIT !!!!! 

Gyro Gearloose starts off our story as he is showing to one of his clients one of his latest inventions: A Virtual Reality Transmitter which would make computer games obsolete, all operated with a small receiver the size of a quarter.

Donald soon comes in with his weekly delivery of bubble gum, Gyro gives him his usual tip of twenty five cents but Donald picks up the receiver by accident as he will soon become the victim of Gyro’s machine when he turns it on.

Donald soon sees monsters all over town and floats in the air as part of the game’s programming as the locals seem to think Donald is losing his mind as the illusion gets worse and worse as pies soon attack Donald before the pies hurl him towards the ocean.

Donald soon lands on a giant bag of money as it soon takes off running away from a gigantic Scrooge McDuck as Donald distracts him with one of the dimes coming out of the bag. How could this game get any worse ?

The locals soon call the cops to stop Donald, having tossed a woman’s coins randomly in reality as the officer soon captures Donald as he imagines it as a flock of marshmallows attacking him

How will Donald get out of this virtual nightmare ? You will have to read on to find out dear readers.

FINALLY TIME TO FINISH MY INVASION OF THIS WEBSITE

IN A LITTLE TALE I LIKE TO CALL

NIGHT OF THE LIVING TEXT PART 2 😀

The caption box explaining everything in Part 1 soon falls upon the military flattening all the tanks as it seems all hope is lost.

 

The commander makes it out of this flattening situation as Mickey lets him in as we soon find out the commander was none other than Peg Leg Pete

WOW…. PETE AGAIN….. SHOW EMIL EAGLE INSTEAD OF RE-USING PETE ALL THE TIME

Mickey and the Professor soon to get the idea of leaving town and getting back-up as the Professor tells them to remain at a blank, dull, unintelligent expression so the caption boxes could not attack them.

They soon make it to the bus as Pete hot-wires it so they could leave as the Professor tells Pete to stop blocking his view with his giant BUT !!!!!!! Uhhhh that’s not what I was going to say, but yes a giant BUT caption box soon attacks the van as it spirals out of control into a wall.

Pete takes the most damage, crashing through the window into the wall as he starts saying gibberish confusing the caption boxes. Mickey figures out an idea on how to get rid of the caption boxes once and for all…. but…

BUT WHAT ??? TELL ME !!! TELL ME YOU CANADIAN FOOL !!!

Readers will have to read the rest of the story for themselves to find out what that plan is

WHAT !!!!! YOU’RE NOT FINISHING IT ???

Uhhh no, this is done so people will go out and buy the comics instead of being spoiled in an review. It’s done to promote the company and its work.

I’M DONE WITH THIS, YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CRUMMY REVIEWS, I’M OUT !!!!

Uhhhh ok, on to the overall opinions I guess

OVERALL THOUGHTS

NIGHT OF THE LIVING  TEXT

This was the big title of the first issue of DCAS without the Zodiac Stones and honestly it was not what I was expecting, I was expecting more of Mickey explaining to his friends that they were in a comic book and how things could be predictable with their past plots. But it turned out more like a parody of a horror movie.

The art is gorgeous as usual from one of the main artists featured in the IDW comics and one of my personal favourites.

SWALLOWED WHOLE

The second story of the issue was a disappointment for me, the art was very standard and it felt like something from a decade ago instead of 2015. The story did not interest me in the slightest as the video game sub-plot was done before in other Disney comics before and Disney animated shows much better than here.

FINAL THOUGHTS:

Overall this issue could have used more stories with variety like some Bucky Bug, Big Bad Wolf or maybe even some obscure characters like Scamp, Winnie the Pooh or Beagle Boys since one Mickey and one Donald story that could have been published in their solo issues isn’t enough to have the Comics and Stories name attached to it. Hopefully the next issue will be much better.

CREDITS:

WRITERS AND ARTISTS: Andrea ”Casty” Castellan ( STORY 1) William Van Horn (STORY 2)

EDITOR: SARAH GAYDOS

ARCHIVAL EDITOR: DAVID GERSTEIN

PUBLISHER: IDW AND DISNEY COMICS