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03-18-2005, 03:32 PM
Wednesday's comic store crawl for me included picking up the latest Mickey Mouse & Friends, and the latest Donald Duck & Friends. Take heart if you haven't read these yet, I will try not to spoil too much.
The issue of Mickey might well be my last; I'm getting kind of frustrated with the format of these "Friends" titles, with 2 short stories featuring the Comic Title character, and a middle story featuring their counterpart (Mickey & Donald interchangably). Last month's "Lost in The Andes," coloring issues not-withstanding, was a welcome change of pace. This month we're back to the same monotony.
Take the first story in Mickey - I really liked it at first, I thought it was a cool story with a cool sci-fi premise, but then it was over in 12 pages. Mickey and Goofy get out of their predicament way too easily, a device due to the shortness of the story I'm sure. But that's what I find so confining about the format. This was a neat story idea that could have lasted at least an entire issue, perhaps a 2 issue story arc. But instead it got slammed into 12 pages. What a shame.
Same thing with the Donald issue - in this case the last story, with the story about the Easter Bunny and easter eggs. Another neat story idea, wasted because of the page constraint. I realize that perhaps that the artists and writers may be conforming to a mandate, but let me tell you their ideas are bursting at the seams.
The remainder of the stories in the Mickey issue were unremarkable, save to say that the Donald story and the battle with neighbor Jones therein was pretty stupid, compared to the Neighbor Jones story by Barks over in Donald.
The issue of Mickey might well be my last; I'm getting kind of frustrated with the format of these "Friends" titles, with 2 short stories featuring the Comic Title character, and a middle story featuring their counterpart (Mickey & Donald interchangably). Last month's "Lost in The Andes," coloring issues not-withstanding, was a welcome change of pace. This month we're back to the same monotony.
Take the first story in Mickey - I really liked it at first, I thought it was a cool story with a cool sci-fi premise, but then it was over in 12 pages. Mickey and Goofy get out of their predicament way too easily, a device due to the shortness of the story I'm sure. But that's what I find so confining about the format. This was a neat story idea that could have lasted at least an entire issue, perhaps a 2 issue story arc. But instead it got slammed into 12 pages. What a shame.
Same thing with the Donald issue - in this case the last story, with the story about the Easter Bunny and easter eggs. Another neat story idea, wasted because of the page constraint. I realize that perhaps that the artists and writers may be conforming to a mandate, but let me tell you their ideas are bursting at the seams.
The remainder of the stories in the Mickey issue were unremarkable, save to say that the Donald story and the battle with neighbor Jones therein was pretty stupid, compared to the Neighbor Jones story by Barks over in Donald.