Daring duck of mystery
Champion of right
Swoops out of the shadows
Darkwing owns the night
Somewhere some villain schemes
But his number’s up
(3-2-1)
Darkwing Duck (When there’s trouble you call DW)
Darkwing Duck (Let’s get dangerous!)
Darkwing Duck (Darkwing, Darkwing, duck!)
Today, we will take a look at Darkwing Duck #6 published by Dynamite comics.
Release Date: June 28th, 2023
Writer: Amanda Deibert
Artist: Carlo Cid Lauro
Letterer: Jeff Eckleberry
Editor: Nate Cosby
Main Covers by: Mirka Andolfo, Leirix, Jacob Edgar, Trish Forstner, Carlo Cid Lauro, George Kambadais, Ken Haeser, and Cat Staggs
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Official Synopsis: Darkwing is on the trail of Dr. NoGood! But is it too late to save the brainwashed kids of St. Canard? It’ll be up to The Terror That Flaps In The Night to cook up a plan – one that involves a team-up with…Megavolt?!
Covers
This is a Dynamite Comics release. So you know that there is going to be a dangerous amount of covers. In this section, I am going to highlight some of the dangerous covers for Darkwing Duck #6.
Carlo Lauro paid tribute to one of his favorite anime movies, Akira, for his cover this month.
Trish Forstner delivered another great cover of Darkwing flapping in the night.
I am collecting the action figure variant incentive covers for this Darkwing Duck comic series. Darkwing Duck #6 features the leader of the Fearsome Five, Negaduck.
My Review
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Darkwing and Gosalyn as the Quivering Quack are driving around St. Canard on the Ratcatcher to help rescue the brainwashed children from Gosalyn’s school from the evil Dr. Nogood. The children are terrorizing everyone in town including the supervillain Megavolt. Megavolt decides to double cross Dr. Nogood and team up temporarily with Darkwing. The team up only lasts a few pages as Darkwing is then double-double crossed by Megavolt in a ferris wheel carnival trap. Darkwing escapes the trap quite easily…a little too easily, and he chases Dr. Nogood into a mirror fun house. Dr. Nogood is eventually taken out by a tranquilizer dart that was meant for DW.
This leads to an even bigger villain reveal that Negaduck is back in a lead role with the Fearsome Five. DW was setup to take Dr. Nogood out so that the Fearsome Five would have no competition to rule St. Canard. Just when Darkwing is about to go 1 vs 5 against the entire Fearsome Five, the Justice Ducks show up. This includes Launchpad, Morgana, Stegmutt, Neptunia, and Gizmoduck. Darkwing’s backup was made possible by Gosalyn…er the Quivering Quack using a cell phone to make the call to the Justice Ducks. We get some great panes of action between the Fearsome Five and the Justice Ducks. There is a great gag of Stegmutt hitting Quackerjack so hard with his tail that he flies through and breaks the comic pane. Negaduck and his chainsaw is stopped by one of DW’s inventions as his gas gun shoots a wad of bubble gum all over Nega and his chainsaw. St. Canard has been saved by Darkwing once again with a little assistance from the Justice Ducks. In the end, Gosalyn is awarded her very own cell phone by her dad with the rule of no social media unless it is to update the Darkwing Duck Fan Club.
The Dynamite Comics Darkwing Duck six issue series was a great success as fans were rewarded with a comic series extension from their grand support. It is expected that we will see at least an additional six issues, and those issues appear to have a Justice Ducks adventure theme from the synopsis and cover reveals so far of upcoming issues. The series will go as far as fans support it. So make sure to get dangerous and preorder each issue. I am really looking forward to the next few issues of Justice Duck goodness and hopefully there will be some more Pirate Steven cameo appearances : )
In other monumental news, Dynamite Comics announced that Negaduck will be getting his own comic series this September. I have to admit that this one caught me completely by surprise even though in my review of earlier Dynamite Comics Darkwing Duck issues, I listed a Justice Ducks themed comic and comic series based on the Darkwing Duck rogue gallery on my want list. That was wishful dream thinking on my part and not something that I thought would actually become a reality. Starting in September, be prepared to make at least two stops to your local comic book shop for Darkwing Duck and Negaduck. All of this comic goodness has helped filled the void of lack of news on the Darkwing Duck reboot animated series. Please make sure to support the Dynamite Comics Gargoyles, Disney Villains: Scar, and Disney Villains: Maleficent series while you are out buying Darkwing Duck.
The first six issues of Dynamite Comics Darkwing Duck will be re-released as a special collection in August. It will be titled F.O.W.L. Play, and come in three collectible editions of a trade paperback, trade hardcover, and trade hardcover signed by Amanda Diebert. Buying the individual issues definitely make the trade collections and series extension possible. Keep getting dangerous every month when new issues are released.
Darkwing Duck #7 is tentatively scheduled for July 19th, 2023.
It feels great to get dangerous again with this new Darkwing Duck comic series.
Let us know what you thought of Darkwing Duck #6 in the comments below. What cover(s) did you get?
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So, let me see if I got this straight. Amanda Deibert went to the trouble of resurrecting Dr. Nogood and pitting Darkwing Duck against him, and then he’s ultimately taken out anticlimactically midway through this issue so Negaduck and the Fearsome Four can hijack the climax. Pardon me, but didn’t Frank Angones decide to AVOID doing this same twist when he wrote DT17’s “Let’s Get Dangerous!” 2-parter, because he felt it would be a disservice to Negaduck’s character? (Granted, that was after he gave Negaduck a sympathetic backstory, which I’d personally say was a far bigger disservice, but still.) This just makes me further question why Deibert bothered bringing Dr. Nogood into this arc to begin with, instead of just using Steelbeak here and saving Nogood’s resurgence for a later story.
And if the Fearsome Five’s plan here was to trick Darkwing into getting rid of Nogood FOR them so they could then defeat DW themselves, was him going through a ten-minute (or rather, two-issue) retirement PART of their plan? What would they have done if Drake just stayed retired and never went back to being a superhero? And wouldn’t Negaduck be ecstatic about DW not fighting crime anymore? It’s pretty much just another bunch of reasons why I wish Disney had never fired Aaron Sparrow and James Silvani from this franchise (still wishing for that Darkwing-teams-up-with-Mickey story!), and why I’m still not buying a single issue of this new series.
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I was waiting for this. You are definitely not wrong. Dr. Nogood could be the easiest villain that DW has taken down, and the build up from the previous issue for this mysterious villain resurrected from the past disappeared in a vat of vanishing fluid fast.
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