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Dynamite’s Darkwing Duck Unveils Team Behind The Comic Alongside Amazing Comic Cover Artists And Sneak Preview.

The Seth Rogen Disney+ Darkwing Duck Reboot still won’t hit our screens sooner according to og creator and creative consultant of the reboot Tad Stones as is still happening but is still early on development.

However the terror that flaps at night will fly again on a new series of comics by Dynamite and they unveiled not only the team behind the comic but also a preview and an amazing set of comic covers.

The Series of comics by Dynamite will debut on January 4 2023,the team consist of Amanda Deibert as writter with Carlo Cid Lauro as Artist and Jeff Eckleberry as letters.

Amanda Deibert had a background in television, animation, and comics, including Netflix’s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Wonder Woman, Star Wars, Warner Bros Animation’s DC Super Hero Girls etc..

“Darkwing Duck was huge when I was a kid, and I am thrilled to help introduce the fun, humor, and action-packed mystery to a new generation!” said Deibert. “Let’s get Dangerous!”

Editor Nate Cosby added, “Fans of the original TV series are in for a total treat, because Amanda and Carlo are conjuring up a hilarious, thrill-filled adventure series that’s directly connected with the classic feel of the show, but 100% accessible for new readers!”

David Nakayama’s cover shows the titular Darkwing Duck, also known as Drake Mallard, standing atop a gargoyle while dressed for a night of superhero antics. Mirka Andolfo’s cover, meanwhile, sees Drake embracing his inner Dark Knight with a very Batman-like pose. Artwork from Lesley “Leirix” Li shows Darkwing Duck utilizing his grappling hook, while additional covers come from Trish Forstner (My Little Pony, Transformers), Jacob Edgar (Death to the Army of Darkness), Lauro and George Kambadais (Dark Crisis: The Deadly Green).

Dynamite also revealed plans to reprint a number of past Darkwing Duck facsimile editions and graphic novels. “The hard-to-find 1991 limited series released by Disney Comics with contributions by John Blair Moore and others will soon be accessible again to fans and collectors of classic Disney comics,” the publisher said at the time.

Darkwing Duck #1 - F.O.W.L Play

February 2023

Amanda Deibert

Carlo Cid Lauro

Nate Cosby

Jeff Eckleberry

The first story, subtitled “F.O.W.L. Play” kicks off a showdown between Darkwing and his dastardly arch nemesis Megavolt. He’s taken out everyone’s phones, which is a pretty cataclysmic outcome for the citizens of St. Canard. Alongside his ally Launchpad McQuack and some unexpected help from Gosalyn, the squad will take on Megavolt. But the latest escapade makes Mallard question the entire superhero business and consider retiring. How long can he go without meting out justice?”

“He is the terror that flaps in the night… He is the ferocious fowl who plucks the evil eye from the face of foul play. He is Darkwing Duck! By night he vigilantly defends his city of St. Canard from the dastardly, devilish demons who would wage wanton war with his trademark costume and gadgets, and lurks through the shadows, striking fear in the heart of the criminal underworld. By day he’s known as the mild-mannered Drake Mallard, father to his adorable adopted daughter Gosalyn. Can Darkwing successfully juggle his two separate lives, all while looking incredibly cool and impossibly handsome? Readers will have to tune in on January 4 to find out!

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I rarely break the 4th wall in comics, but I love this moment. 

DC’s Harley Quinn Romances #1 - “Power Girl & All-American Boy” (2023)

written by Amanda Deibert art by Adriana Melo & John Kalisz

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A Love Letter to Parents At the End of The Most Difficult School Year EVER

WOW, that was really something, huh?

It’s the end of the most difficult year school for all of us: teachers, parents, students… Hell, probably even the neighbors of parents and students. I would say “at least we survived!” but this has been more than a year of illness and mental health crises… not all of us did. Some of you are mourning those loses. I am so sorry.

As my daughter celebrates her final day of Kindergarten, and I celebrate my final day of supervising hours of zooms and packets full of work, of being her mother, teacher, confidant, chef, maid, PE teacher, and playmate… I have a lot of emotions. I’m sure you do too.

It was hard for those of us who, like my family, spent the entire year in virtual school: never meeting teachers or classmates in person. Those of us who spent so much of the year trying not to worry about excessive screen time while going against our intuition to coax children to sit up and pay attention to their computers.

It was difficult for families who did hybrid and had their bits of in-person “normalcy” sporadicly and suddenly turned to quarantines every time there was an exposure so that there could never be a true routine.

It was complicated for parents navigating this with multiple children who all needed different things at the same time. I know in my daughter’s own little kindergarten class we over-heard older siblings’ music lessons, younger siblings’ infant-wails, and parents trying to deal with their work zooms while 6 year olds struggled to concentrate on learning to read.

My heart especially goes out to the parents of children who need extra attention or services, some of whom lost out on months or a year of in-person therapies. This is unfair and horrible. This has been infuriating, unfair, and horrible. You have been dealing with far more worries than you should have had to and I am so sorry.

And then there’s work… whew. As a working mother who went to work in person in full PPE, then worked from home with endless Zoom meetings while my daughter put Elsa stick-on earrings all over my face, and then who lost my job due to pandemic related situations. I know it was difficult to work and teach and parent and be a child’s only friend and entertainment.

For those of you who are essential, for those of you who work in healthcare and mental healthcare… I just, I can’t even begin to tell you how much I admire you and also know my admiration doesn’t do a fucking ounce of good to help alleviate all you’ve had to juggle and endure.

So much has fallen disproportionality on mothers. We can see it in hard data. This will have ramifications for years to come. Just as it will on our kids… in ways we don’t even fully understand yet. Just while trying to write this essay…. my daughter and our kitten have crawled into my lap. They are both here right now.

And yes, I know plenty of amazing Dads who have been struggling right there with us. My dad-friends and I have leaned on each other TREMENDOUSLY this year, so please don’t think I don’t see you out there struggling through this too.

As I look back over this past school year (and the end of the academic year before) I am feeling sad for the milestones my child didn’t get to have. The things we didn’t experience as planned. The fond farewell to her preschool of 3 years we never had. The kindergarten teacher she never met in person. The first year at an elementary school where we haven’t yet been inside the building. I have so much dread for the coming separation anxiety after more than a year of never being apart. Hers and mine. This was not how things were supposed to be. No matter how you’ve experienced the pandemic, because we’re all doing it differently… this was not what we “planned.” It’s also not something anyone else alive has ever had to deal with before.

I want to stress that again:

No parent alive has ever dealt with anything like this. No one alive has experienced anything like this as a child. Bad things? Yes. Worse thing? Yes, even. But not THIS.

So if your parents/elders are giving unhelpful “advice” about how you should/should have handled things please remember THEY HAVE NO IDEA. None. At all.

This is one area where you can laugh and laugh and be like… “YOU HAD OPEN PARKS AND SCHOOLS AND KIDS COULD GO RIDE THEIR BIKES UNRESTRICTED. YOU COULD GO SIT IN CHURCH AND THE KIDS WOULD BE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL. YOU CAN NOPE RIGHT OFF.” Love them. Love their advice, but they don’t actually know what it is like.

I hope they are offering love and support. I don’t have living parents, but my grandmother is the first to say that even as a stay at home mom whose husband was away fighting a war, she can’t imagine being unable to simply take her kids to school or to run errands, or to let them play with other children. Her situation was very difficult and complicated. I don’t have it worse. Not at all. It’s just that this school year has been one hell of a weird one.

There have been bright spots. I loved getting to watch and experience my daughter learning in real time. Seeing the day-to-day progress and truly knowing what is going on in her classes. Again, that isn’t the experience for parents who have children unable to access their child’s IEP help in the way they should.

I love the extra time we’ve gotten together as a family. The movie nights outside and snuggles and lack of rushing around from place to place. I enjoy as an Angeleno not being stuck in traffic for hours. Not everyone has been able to work from home like my wife and I have mostly been able to do for much of this and I am grateful for that too.

My hope is that when this is truly over, when we get back to whatever new life looks like in the next school year, that some of the good will stay. That I will be more involved in our child’s education than maybe I would have been before because I know what it looks like. That we will spend more time as a family together just us. That I won’t say “yes” to things out of obligation that don’t add value to our lives. That we won’t be too busy.That’s probably naive, but we can sure try.

I hope that you have some bright spots to look back on from this past school year. I hope you can share them with your children and they can share theirs with you. Whatever you had to do to get through this, I am so outrageously proud of you. I am proud of me too. And wow, our kids. They’ve been through some shit. I’m super proud of them.

Please, please take some time to celebrate what you have managed to get through. I got cupcakes for the kiddo and some cocktails for grownups. Please do whatever version of that sparks some happiness.

PUNT THAT SCHOOL-ISSUED LAPTOP INTO THE SUN.

I mean, yeah okay, we’ll all responsibly return it fully charged and be so grateful to the school system that we didn’t have to use Mommy’s work laptop for it but you know… metaphorically it’s that scene from Office Space. (Your kids wouldn’t get this joke but this isn’t for them. JUST LIKE THE COCKTAIL/CHOCOLATE/BUBBLEBATH/WHATEVER YOU ARE GONNA DO TO CELEBRATE YOU )

Anyway, you are amazing. Maybe you don’t feel like many people noticed. I see you. I’m toasting you from this weird half-teacher’s lounge we share.

If you’d like to share some of your brightest spots, or most amazing, brilliant parent hacks from all this madness, I would love to read about it in the comments. We’ve got to hold onto the good.

#pandemic #Amanda Deibert #lesbian moms #LGBTQ+ #parenting #pandemic parenting #distance learning #class of 2021

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DC Super Hero Girls: Infinite Frenemies #1 - “Birdbrained” (2020)

written by Amanda Deibert art by Erich Owen

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DC Super Hero Girls: Infinite Frenemies #3 Review

DC Super Hero Girls: Infinite Frenemies #3 Review

This one is seriously going to the dogs – and cats!

Check out the full article by Chris Beveridge on The Fandom Post!

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DC Super Hero Girls: Infinite Frenemies #2 Review

DC Super Hero Girls: Infinite Frenemies #2 Review

This story is definitely a lot of fun as the school dance is accessible to everyone

Check out the full article by Chris Beveridge on The Fandom Post!

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DC Super Hero Girls: Infinite Frenemies #1 Review

DC Super Hero Girls: Infinite Frenemies #1 Review

This kind of title isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea but I really enjoy these things.

Check out the full article by Chris Beveridge on The Fandom Post!

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At last! The Bedside Press adaptation of Eve Zaremba’s Work for a Million, featuring lesbian P.I. Helen Keremos, is live on Kickstarter.

Adaptation written by Amanda Deibert, art by Selena Goulding

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Awww, mushy.

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When I was asked to write about my emotions as a gay mom in the wake of the Orlando tragedy, I balked. It’s hard. It’s complicated and also...I’m alive. My loved ones are alive. Then some lovely friends reminded me that now is the time to amplify gay voices, and remind everyone how this affects us all. <3 

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Aw, this post warmed my heart. <3 Glad people are enjoying. 

Aaargh, reading Wonder Woman '77 and how they make Steve makes me so sad he isn't featured more in the modern comics! ;_; He is just so nice and respectful and teasing in his own way, yet so clueless about Wonder Woman's civilian identity. And the writer manages to have episodic stories within three (recently two) issues. Whoever writes the series, I would totally have them write "Wonder Woman's Boyfriend: Steve Trevor" with one story per issue about what troubles he gets into without Wondy.

I’m getting to your message super late, but what you said is kind of prescient! With the new Wonder Woman series, we’re getting two alternating stories, one of which will focus on Wonder Woman’s rescue of Steve Trevor in a sticky situation.  Actually, now that I think about it, that is a very nonspecific statement about Wonder Woman.  

As for ‘77, it’s totally funny and charming.  

Heh heh heh. Happy Wonder Woman is the best kind of Wonder Woman.  Thanks for the message!

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I was beaten up/teased on the bus every day of elementary school (to be fair, that dress is totally asking for it). On Valentine’s Day in 3rd grade my mom had an idea. She told me to give some of the little plastic Valentine rings I was bringing to my class to the bus bullies. So I did and a weird thing happened…someone made a joke about using it to punch me…but they didn’t…and they actually never did again. I don’t think kindness ALWAYS works. And I do think my mother should have taken a more active role in helping me, or getting the school to…but, sometimes, turning the other cheek can work. It did for little me. So there is a weird v-day story with a happy ending. (Also, it gets better…I’m 100% sure my life is more awesome than the bus bullies)

#it gets better

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HAVE I MENTIONED HOW EXCITED I AM ABOUT THE STORY I WROTE FOR THIS? BECAUSE I AM SO EXCITED (AND VERY INTIMIDATED BY THE CALIBER OF THE OTHER CREATORS....WOOOOOOWWW) 

WONDER WOMAN ‘77 SPECIAL #3 Written by MARC ANDREYKO, CHRISTOS N. GAGE, RUTH FLETCHER, AMANDA DEIBERT and TRINA ROBBINS Art by RICHARD ORTIZ, STAZ JOHNSON, CAT STAGGS and others Cover by NICOLA SCOTT On sale MARCH 30 • 80 pg, FC, $7.99 US • RATED E • DIGITAL FIRST

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Valid reason to miss work or MOST valid reason to miss work?

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Just walked into this scene in my bedroom...I'm not gonna ask.

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Happy Anniversary Memommie and Grandpapa! I am very glad these young, attractive people got together.