Darkwing Duck Campaign Carnage by Ian Brill

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This book collects Issues 13-16 of the Boom Studios Darkwing Duck Series as well as the only Annual for the Comic.

The Annual has two stories that stand apart from the interconnected story told in Issues 13-16.

In, "Toy With Me," toy-based supervillain Quackerjack is back and he's a far darker villain with a new and far darker version of his puppet sidekick Mr. Banana Brain. In my opinion, this story was very reminiscent of the very first Boom Studio Darkwing Duck story, "The Duck Knight Returns." It was this rare story that had a lot of kids stuff, but also some more profound mature concepts about originality, accomplishment, and choosing who we're going to be. It also could be seen as a bit of a commentary on darker comics. Darkwing Duck is at his most heroic and the end of the story is poignant. Just a great story.

The shorter Annual story, "The Untimely Terror of the Time Turtle," was written by show creator Tad Jones and was just a delightful time travel romp.

As for, "Campaign Carnage," the titular four issue story features Darkwing facing a stream of new supervillains and then deciding to run for Mayor against a City Councilwoman and before you know it, his friend and sidekick Launchpad launches his campaign with hopes of allowing Darkwing to continue to be a superhero.

The story isn't profound or anything, but it's a lot of fun. It also hints at some nefarious goings on that will be addressed and resolved i the upcoming crossover story. Overall, this book lived up to high standards of the previous all ages Darkwing Duck series and I highly recommend it.



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