Disney LongBox Reviews : Darkwing Duck #3

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Disney Darkwing Duck has been knocking it out of the park hit issue after hit issue of wonderful humour, electrifying art and faithfulness to its source material. This issue marks the end of the Orange is the New Purple arc as chaos ensues in the new St-Canard Penitentiary. What will happen to our beloved masked mallard this issue? Let’s find out together shall we?

ORANGE IS THE NEW PURPLE PART 3 of 3

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Launchpad and Honker are STILL trying to break into the penitentiary with various explosives as our new fan favourite dim-witted lion anchor still covers the story to the best of his uh…. abilities.

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Meanwhile, Darkwing is trapped in the illusions of the menacing Suff-rage…. wait that’s not her name anymore, ok then, Darkwing Duck is trapped in the illusions of the menacing Mistressterious as the visions shift from a dinosaur jungle ,a certain mansion found at many Disney parks and finally to a pirate ship that could be a certain Pearl.

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Darkwing is about to walk the plank until Mistressterious and her hypnotized police guards get frozen by a certain ice themed Disney character (No,not that one,she is in Norway having adventures with her sister in the Frozen ongoing comic available in shops everywhere)

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Instead, Darkwing is saved by Isis Vanderchill * She made her icy debut in the Season 1 Episode 28 Episode All Farenheit’s In Love and War* who has a chilling crush on Darkwing Duck. As he does say himself, he does seem to attract the weird ones. (Morgana, Suff-Rage, Isis are a few)

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Isis freezes his gas gun and gives him a icy hug as Isis, after seeing herself in a mirror, decides to give herself a new look, shall we say a look that’s so 2013. Icy what you did there, Aaron.

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Darkwing tricks her into kissing a pipe as he swings away hoping to find Gosalyn,who is sitting tight waiting to be rescued. Nope, she’s fighting off against Bushroot and Doctor Fossil of course as she causes their experiment to grow out of control.

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Darkwing encounters that swinging villain One-Shot (Guess we should name him Two-Shot at this point) in the cafeteria as he uses utensils to take care of Darkwing. Gosalyn saves him with a conveniently placed hose as the dastardly monkey frantically searches for a knife within the spoons.

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But that hose is about to bring them a bubbly smooth doom as a pink soapy Liquidator soon comes out of the hose (Bubbly Soapy Liquidator action figures now available at all Buy N Large locations with kung fu chopping actions). The bubbly fiend soon overtakes Darkwing as he brings him to the nefarious Negaduck.

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Well, Darkwing and Gosalyn are in a rather tight situation at the moment.So let’s go ahead and leave the evil villain to do what he does best, shall we ?

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Will Negaduck succeed with his nefarious plan ? What is up with that evil kitty that talked to Mortimer last issue ? Will Megavolt finally earn some respect ? Will Isis learn to let it go ? Find out next time dear readers. Same Duck Time, Same Duck Comic.

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FINAL THOUGHTS

Aaron, James and Janice do it again, they bring us another hilarious issue of Darkwing Duck full of Disney Easter Eggs and rather obscure villains in the background of the panels. While the ending was not what I expected, it is still a solid three issue arc and should hang in anyone’s comic book shelf once the TP comes out.

But I can’t help but wonder what they have planned with the most infamous kitten in the Darkwing mythos, no,not Mortimer, that other one that you had to have issues of Disney Adventures stacked in a box up in the attic to understand.

One positive I do have is there are more bios for the Darkwing Duck villains at the end of the issue and NO MORE forced in Cinebook previews.

I highly recommend Darkwing Duck #3 as your next comic book read if you need a break from superheroes ,teens in love triangles and the adventures of certain fruit scented girls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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