Fowl Play! is a comic story scripted and penciled by John Blair Moore, and inked by George Wildman, adapting the third quarter of Darkly Dawns The Duck (cartoon), whose script was by Tad Stones, Jan Strnad and Jymn Magon. The third chapter of Brawl in the Family, it features Darkwing Duck, Taurus Bulba, Tantalus, Launchpad McQuack, Gosalyn Mallard, Hammerhead Hannigan, Hoof and Mouth, Clovis, and a picture of Professor Waddlemeyer.
Plot[]
While Darkwing Duck bonds with Gosalyn Waddlemeyer, the orphan girl whom he rescued from Taurus Bulba's kidnapping attempt, the villainous mastermind, now free from St. Canard Prison, draws up plans to get rid of Darkwing once and for all and get the code to the Ram Rod out of Gosalyn…
References[]
- Darkwing Duck's scouting handbook that he “hanged onto” and now keeps under his pillow is identified as a Junior Woodchucks' Guidebook (though of an unfamiliar design with a large red cover bearing the title “Junior Woodchucks' Guide”, instead. At any rate, Darkwing uses it to decode Morse code.
Continuity[]
- This story adapts a third quarter of the events of the feature-length pilot of Darkwing Duck, Darkly Dawns The Duck (1991). As with other episodes of Brawl in the Family, the adaption is generally very faithful, with only minor variations in dialogue, such as the aforementioned confirmation that Darkwing used to be a Junior Woodchuck.
Behind the scenes[]
Fowl Play! was printed in Jnauary of 1992 in the third issue of a Darkwing Duck limited comic series devoted solely to the publication of Brawl in the Family’s four chapters.
The story was later reprinted in the U.S. Disney's Colossal Comics Collection #4 and in Darkwing Duck Classics #1.