04.06.2012 - Terrence Marks:
I got a sketch from James Silvani, who drew the recent Darkwing Duck comic books. They were amazing and I kept meaning to write about them here. I didn't get a chance before the series ended. After 18 issues. I need to update this thing more often.
Anyhow, I got a sketch of Uncle Scrooge and Bowling Ball Scrooge.
Why Scrooge, if I liked the job he did on Darkwing so much?
Because he drew the Ducktales crossover.
Let me take that a step back. For a variety of historical reasons, Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comics are HUGE in Europe. They're fairly popular in South America. In the US, you need to special order them.
Accordingly, most of the artists*, at least over the last 50 years, are overseas and there's not much call for them to do the American con circuit. So this looked like my only chance to get a sketch from someone who's drawn Scrooge in an official capacity.
Why Bowling Ball Scrooge?
Crisis on Infinite Darkwings. The Evil Plan was: go to alternate dimensions. Kidnap and brainwash that dimensions Darkwing. Turn all the kidnapped brainwashed Darkwings loose. Chaos ensues.
The script originally called for something like eight altenate Darkwings. James Silvani added more than 60. That kind of detail is one of the reasons why I liked the series. They got stranger and stranger until....
Bowling Ball Darkwing. Either you think it's hilarious or you don't. There is nothing further I can say on the matter. And since there's a whole dimension of them, Bowling Ball Scrooge.
*: One notable exception is Don Rosa. Last I heard, he retired from comics. Two days after WonderCon, I found out that he was appearing at Emerald City Comic-Con. I didn't drop everything and go to Seattle, but I did price it out. I'm not sure if he did sketches.