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DragonLords
The Duck family is transported to an alternate universe in which dragon-riding barbarians hold sway over a population of humans. The Ducks embark on assisting the humans to win their freedom and try to find a way back to Duckburg.
176 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2011
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October 4, 2022
A (not so) classic Disney adventure where the duck family gets transported into a fantasy alternate world, where alongside humans fight against an ogre-like race. There are dragons, too. And the art is created by Cavazzano, who has done a magnificent job!
What more could I possibly ask...
What more could I possibly ask...
April 2, 2022
Bra story som är lite av den mer seriösa sorten (Kalle har inte otur i den utsträckningen han brukar). Bra tonvikt i klassisk fantasy utan att man känner att man plankar friskt från kända franchiser.
September 19, 2008
I wouldn't say this is on par with Don Rosa's The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck, but it certainly is one of the best Disney graphic novels around. It could have worn its theme (family loyalty) a little less prominently on its sleeve, but one assumes Disney product is created keeping in mind a very young lower age limit for the target audience.
January 14, 2018
Donald Duck has read another self-improvement book. This one is about family togetherness, so Donald drags his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie and Uncle Scrooge out to a picnic in the woods. None of them are particularly keen on this; the nephews have a movie audition to get to, and Scrooge is spending his time assessing the forest for lumber profits. Just as Donald is reaching the end of his temper (admittedly a short journey), a hole opens in the air, bringing forth two odd pink-skinned beings called “humans”, followed quickly by three “Morgs” riding dragons! Picnic called on account of adventure!
Those of you who don’t follow comic books may be unaware that Walt Disney continues to license out its cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse, Goofy and especially Donald Duck to be published in comic books both in America and around the world. Thanks in large part to artist/writer Carl Barks, who invented Scrooge McDuck and many other characters, the duck stories have a reasonably coherent setting and loose continuity. The Duck family primarily lives in Duckburg, in the state of Calisota. Donald takes care of his three nephews after their father “went away” (early on, their misbehavior was legendary) and sometimes does odd jobs for his Uncle Scrooge, when he isn’t employed elsewhere. The family often goes off on adventures together.
This particular epic storyline was originally produced for the German Disney comics, as they were having a sales slump at the time. It took two years to get it ready, by which time the sales had rebounded and the editor of the main magazine was no longer interested in such a long and radically different tale. Dragonlords sat in a drawer for a few years until a magazine aimed at older Disney fans picked it up, then it got collected in a special Finnish edition, which this volume is a translation of.
Back to our story. The humans are the mighty warrior Brendon, leader of the human resistance against the Morg invaders, and the slightly airheaded wizard Hintermann, who opened up the portal from Our Mother (what the humans call their world) to Earth. The Morg have both firebreathing dragons to fly on, and solar-powered lightning spears. What they don’t have is good teamwork. While the Morg are able to knock out the local ducks and capture them, at the cost of stranding one of their warriors, Brendon and Hintermann are able to get back through the portal and escape. Group Leader Snark decides to take the ducks back to Morgworld (what the Morgs call it) to sell as slaves.
Huey, Dewey and Louie wind up in the dragon stable run by Clarg, a stupid and lazy Morg. They learn that the dragons are vegetarians and normally peaceful, and their kindness soon allows the triplets to tame a trio of baby dragons. However, they also learn that the Morg use electrical torture and other cruelties to turn their dragon mounts into obedient war machines. The good news is that the boys are able to make contact with the city’s human resistance, as exemplified by former stable boy Jute.
Donald winds up in the armory, polishing weapons and getting up close and personal demonstrations of how they work. Uncle Scrooge, however, becomes the servant of Lord Moraq, ruler of the fortress city Toom. He soon takes advantage of this by driving a wedge between Moraq and his immediate subordinate, General Hyrrr.
Back in Duckburg, Daisy Duck starts getting worried about the boys, and starts trying to figure out what happened to them. (Her rescue effort only fails by dint of not being fast enough.) Meanwhile, stranded Morg warrior Groob must make his way in a world of duck people.
The Morg culture is kind of stereotype baddies; based primarily on who can beat up who, with little seen of loyalty or honor. There are civilian Morg, but we never see them (or any mention of female Morg, if such things exist.) The Morg also don’t use pronouns to make them sound less educated.
Chapter 11 (of 12) is especially striking as the writer chose to make it an almost entirely silent one, allowing the excellent art of Cavazzano to take the fore.
For those of you who are shipping fans, the story does absolutely nothing to stand in the way of shipping Brendon and Hintermann together; even framing them together in a “family” moment. Or they could just be really good friends of course.
In the end, “family” is what the story is all about, as the Ducks may not be into forced togetherness, but always seek each other out when separated.
Recommended for the intersection of Disney Duck fans and epic fantasy fans, from late elementary school readers on up.
Those of you who don’t follow comic books may be unaware that Walt Disney continues to license out its cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse, Goofy and especially Donald Duck to be published in comic books both in America and around the world. Thanks in large part to artist/writer Carl Barks, who invented Scrooge McDuck and many other characters, the duck stories have a reasonably coherent setting and loose continuity. The Duck family primarily lives in Duckburg, in the state of Calisota. Donald takes care of his three nephews after their father “went away” (early on, their misbehavior was legendary) and sometimes does odd jobs for his Uncle Scrooge, when he isn’t employed elsewhere. The family often goes off on adventures together.
This particular epic storyline was originally produced for the German Disney comics, as they were having a sales slump at the time. It took two years to get it ready, by which time the sales had rebounded and the editor of the main magazine was no longer interested in such a long and radically different tale. Dragonlords sat in a drawer for a few years until a magazine aimed at older Disney fans picked it up, then it got collected in a special Finnish edition, which this volume is a translation of.
Back to our story. The humans are the mighty warrior Brendon, leader of the human resistance against the Morg invaders, and the slightly airheaded wizard Hintermann, who opened up the portal from Our Mother (what the humans call their world) to Earth. The Morg have both firebreathing dragons to fly on, and solar-powered lightning spears. What they don’t have is good teamwork. While the Morg are able to knock out the local ducks and capture them, at the cost of stranding one of their warriors, Brendon and Hintermann are able to get back through the portal and escape. Group Leader Snark decides to take the ducks back to Morgworld (what the Morgs call it) to sell as slaves.
Huey, Dewey and Louie wind up in the dragon stable run by Clarg, a stupid and lazy Morg. They learn that the dragons are vegetarians and normally peaceful, and their kindness soon allows the triplets to tame a trio of baby dragons. However, they also learn that the Morg use electrical torture and other cruelties to turn their dragon mounts into obedient war machines. The good news is that the boys are able to make contact with the city’s human resistance, as exemplified by former stable boy Jute.
Donald winds up in the armory, polishing weapons and getting up close and personal demonstrations of how they work. Uncle Scrooge, however, becomes the servant of Lord Moraq, ruler of the fortress city Toom. He soon takes advantage of this by driving a wedge between Moraq and his immediate subordinate, General Hyrrr.
Back in Duckburg, Daisy Duck starts getting worried about the boys, and starts trying to figure out what happened to them. (Her rescue effort only fails by dint of not being fast enough.) Meanwhile, stranded Morg warrior Groob must make his way in a world of duck people.
The Morg culture is kind of stereotype baddies; based primarily on who can beat up who, with little seen of loyalty or honor. There are civilian Morg, but we never see them (or any mention of female Morg, if such things exist.) The Morg also don’t use pronouns to make them sound less educated.
Chapter 11 (of 12) is especially striking as the writer chose to make it an almost entirely silent one, allowing the excellent art of Cavazzano to take the fore.
For those of you who are shipping fans, the story does absolutely nothing to stand in the way of shipping Brendon and Hintermann together; even framing them together in a “family” moment. Or they could just be really good friends of course.
In the end, “family” is what the story is all about, as the Ducks may not be into forced togetherness, but always seek each other out when separated.
Recommended for the intersection of Disney Duck fans and epic fantasy fans, from late elementary school readers on up.
November 28, 2025
Ho sempre ritenuto che Cavazzano abbia ottenuto nel mondo Disney tutta quella fama che invece non gli è stata riconosciuta adeguatamente per i fumetti realizzati all'infuori dell'universo Disneyano ("La città" -realizzato con Bonvi- e "Altai & Johnson" -realizzato con Sclavi- sono noti agli amanti del fumetto italiano ma meriterebbero molto di più).
In questa saga, realizzata per il mercato estero (dove viene menzionata numerose volte in maniera esplicita la possibilità per i nostri protagonisti di morire e di venire ucccisi, cosa che non capita di frequente nelle pubblicazioni italiane), Cavazzano da sfogo di tutto il suo talento (ed il suo tratteggio) nel realizzare paesaggi fantasy ed inquadrature molto dinamiche (penso in particolare al combattimento aereo finale).
Poi con l'edizione in bianco e nero si riesce davvero a godere di tutta la sua arte.
Non credo che riesca a superare i livelli di di Topo Maltese, ma è sicuramente stata una piacevole scoperta.
In questa saga, realizzata per il mercato estero (dove viene menzionata numerose volte in maniera esplicita la possibilità per i nostri protagonisti di morire e di venire ucccisi, cosa che non capita di frequente nelle pubblicazioni italiane), Cavazzano da sfogo di tutto il suo talento (ed il suo tratteggio) nel realizzare paesaggi fantasy ed inquadrature molto dinamiche (penso in particolare al combattimento aereo finale).
Poi con l'edizione in bianco e nero si riesce davvero a godere di tutta la sua arte.
Non credo che riesca a superare i livelli di di Topo Maltese, ma è sicuramente stata una piacevole scoperta.
November 25, 2011
Typically I love everything to do with Huey, Dewey and Louis but I just couldn't get into this one. Uncle's Scrooge and Donald and the three boys or on a picnic when a dimensional door opens and a two humans being chased by creatures on dragons enter. They try to protect the ducks and eventually head back to their own world believing the ducks to be safe. Unfortunately the ducks are brought through by the creatures and sold as slaves.
This was a little bit too high fantasy for a duck adventure for me. I think if it wasn't Ducktales and I didn't have preconceived notions I would have been fine, but I know exactly what I want from a ducktale and this wasn't it unfortunately.
This was a little bit too high fantasy for a duck adventure for me. I think if it wasn't Ducktales and I didn't have preconceived notions I would have been fine, but I know exactly what I want from a ducktale and this wasn't it unfortunately.
August 27, 2025
Otro excelente cómic de Disney para todos los públicos. Es cierto que la trama se alarga un poco, pero la interacción entre los miembros de la familia de Donald resulta ejemplar y emotiva, y el dibujo de Cavazzano, una pasada: dinámico, moderno y a la vez con un toque clásico, y su sentido de la narrativa es impecable, como puede constatarse en el capítulo mudo, en el que somos testigos de algo que debería darse por supuesto en todo cómic: que las imágenes por sí solas basten para entender lo que ocurre en cada viñeta. Muy entretenido y recomendable.
January 22, 2017
La parte veramente forte di questa saga sono i magnifici disegni di Marco Rota.
Per il resto trovo che l'inserimento dei paperi, trattati un poco troppo come delle maschere teatrali, in una storia di puro eroic fantasy non è del tutto riuscita. Ci sono troppi punti in cui la storia rallenta inutilmente, come le scene in Paperopoli inframezzate nella saga, e la risoluzione è un poco troppo scontata.
Per il resto trovo che l'inserimento dei paperi, trattati un poco troppo come delle maschere teatrali, in una storia di puro eroic fantasy non è del tutto riuscita. Ci sono troppi punti in cui la storia rallenta inutilmente, come le scene in Paperopoli inframezzate nella saga, e la risoluzione è un poco troppo scontata.
May 21, 2014
Raccoglie una miniserie in 12 numeri apparsa sulla mitica "Zio Paperone" della WD Italia, ma cosa c'entrano i paperi con questo tipo di fantasy? Nulla. Infatti la seconda stella la prende solo per i disegni assolutamente validi di Cavazzano, che trovo sprecati per questa trametta pessima ed inutilmente lunga.
November 23, 2021
It's amazing how the Disney Ducks can move so fluidly between "reality" and "fantasy"! This story is firmly focused on the latter, as the Duxks are transported to the titular fantasy world
And they don't miss a beat: this is an action-packed, well-crafted story where everyone gets their chance to shine.
And they don't miss a beat: this is an action-packed, well-crafted story where everyone gets their chance to shine.
July 23, 2022
Giorgio Cavazzano is an amazing artist, I picked this up on FCBD 2022 just on the art alone, the story is ok. Basically Scrooge, Donald and the boys get thrown into a fantasy world where they help humans overthrow the troll-ish Morgs. It works ok for that but a little clunky in the telling.
June 11, 2014
AMEI ADOREI
February 25, 2022
Donald, Scrooge and their nephews meet sword and sorcery adventure.
June 12, 2023
A fantasy story featuring the Duck family. Quite different than what most people are used to.
December 29, 2023
Πολύ καλή fantasy ιστορία σε μια τρομερή έκδοση, όπως μας συνηθίζει η Fantagraphics.
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