The latest PREVIEWS catalog has dropped, and with it comes some good news and bad news on the Disney Afternoon comics front. The good news is that Dynamite is relaunching their Darkwing Duck comic book in February, restarting the numbering system like as if the Amanda Deibert run never happened. They've even gotten DW's creator Tad Stones to draw a cover for the first issue, as seen below:

But the bad news, as you can probably see from those writer/artist credits below the logo, is that they still haven't rehired Aaron Sparrow and James Silvani for the series! Seriously, is there any reason WHY Disney won't let those guys come back to finish the story they were telling back in 2010-11 and 2016-17? (I mean, aside from Sparrow being busy with that Doomface comic he's crowdfunding.) Admittedly, the solicitation suggests they're trying out the "Origins of Darkwing Duck" mini-series that Sparrow wanted to do when he was writing the comic, and from the preview pages I've seen, it looks like Ted Brandt and Ro Stein won't be lazily tracing stock art like Carlo Lauro did in the first two issues of the Deibert run. But while I've already given my support to the unrebooted DuckTales comic that Dynamite just launched earlier this month, I'm not sure if I'll be doing the same for this series, even if it does have Tad Stones' support, since it still annoys me that Bob Iger is so insistent on burying Sparrow's contributions to the franchise.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I don't want to read some forum thread or chatroom transcript where Aaron Sparrow reveals the Darkwing Duck stories he never got to tell; I want to see those stories happen.