Book Review: Crisis on Infinite Darkwings by Ian Brill (Darkwing Duck #2)

Stars: 5 out of 5

Pros: Great humor and use of character

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: 

Infinite Darkwings

Make for fun complications

For Darkwing to stop

Darkwing Duck's Heroic Return is Cut Short by . . . Darkwing Duck and Darkwing Duck?

The first adventure of Darkwing Duck's comic book return found him fighting off a load of old enemies, but one big one was missing - Darkwing's evil self Negaduck.  That changes in Darkwing Duck: Crisis on Infinite Darkwings, the second comic book story.

Not familiar with Darkwing Duck?  He was part of Disney's afternoon cartoon block from the early 90's.  Inspired by old comic books, Darkwing fought a variety of villains using gadgets and fighting skills.  His supersized ego was always part of the fun, since he often needed sidekick Launchpad McQuack, originally from DuckTales, and adopted daughter Goslyn, to help him out of sticky situations.

This book picks up where the last comic book ended.  The city of St. Carnard is thrilled to be returning to normal and have their beloved cape crusader back in action.  But that happy moment is short lived.  While Darkwing is attempting to help his girlfriend Morgana recover her memory, seems someone claiming to be Darkwing is out terrorizing the city.

The culprit really is Darkwing Duck, but not the Darkwing Duck from this dimension.  Seems Negaduck has joined forces with Morgica De Spell to steal the Darkwings from other dimensions to destroy Darkwing once and for all by during the city against him.  Once that is done, Negaduck can rule St. Canard and Morgica can get the location of Scrooge McDuck's first dime out of Launchpad.  Can the real Darkwing stop their plot while fighting off countless versions of himself?

Since this was the only show in that afternoon block I regularly watched, I wasn't that familiar with Morgica.  I didn't feel that spoiled my enjoyment of the book at all.  They filled in enough about her for me to follow the story presented here, and that's about all I really needed to know.  The story actually works very well.

Where this book really outdoes the first is with the humor.  I always had fun when this series made random, wacky references or jokes, and the writers tap into that with the multiple Darkwings.  Several times, I had to stop and reread a panel because it was so funny.

And for a Disnerd like me, the background cameos by non-Darkwing Disney characters is an absolute treat.

Once again, these characters seem like their old selves.  In fact, I could hear their cartoon voices as I was reading the dialog.

With the first book, there were a couple of times I had trouble following the artwork.  That wasn't the case here; all the drawings worked well to advance the story.  And all the characters look like their old cartoon counterparts.

This Darkwing Duck fan is absolutely delighted to find his favorite caped crusader is back for more adventures.  Anyone who loved the show will find Darkwing Duck: Crisis on Infinite Darkwings to be an absolute delight.