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TaleSpin Comics: Legend Of The Chaos God/True Baloo Rant

Reviewed: 10/01/2016
Additional Commentary: 12/25/2025

Welcome To The Wacky World Of TaleSpin Comics, Part Ten!

Original Release: 07/00/1994 (The Legend Of The Chaos God: Crystal Chaos), 11/00/1994 (True Baloo).

Well; it's time to finally go through this thing. In 1994; Disney Adventures decided that it was time to finally do something DTVA never had the guts to do: which is for the shows to crossover into one epic story. (2025 Gregory Weagle Says: Because execs think crossovers make no money and unless you are Super Smash Brothers; that is true, even if I like Project X Zone 1 & 2.) Thus "Legend Of The Chaos God" was born. Basically, the plot was that the various series have to deal with a controlling chaos deity who wants to dominate the world. It's a simple, effective story to tell. I'm sure everyone wanted to see Baloo meet Darkwing Duck, Kit meet Gosalyn and the nephews, Molly meets Webby and all that. (The good news is that Baloo, Kit and Molly did meet Darkwing Duck, Gosalyn and Honker in the Halloween PSA on television. Kit, Baloo, Rebecca and Molly also met the nephews, Honker, Gosalyn, Scrooge McDuck, and Darkwing Duck would meet in the Christmas PSA on television, several years before this comic strip actually! Heck, Don Karnage was the main villain for a Disney On Ice segment against Mickey Mouse of all characters!) However, if you were expecting that in this comic story, prepare to be disappointed: Gosalyn and Webby never appear in this comic at all and ultimately only Scrooge and Fenton meet Darkwing Duck, and Fenton has already appeared in the televised series. (Ducktales 2017 had Kit and Molly appear with Huey and Dewey. Don Karnage appeared twice before this against the nephews, Scrooge and Webby. Then the final stance as Kit and Molly finally met Donald Duck, Launchpad, Gizmo Duck among manty others. It showed that the Duck universe was in the TaleSpin universe all along. Also, Kit and Molly are the only characters to meet the Darkwing Duck characters and Ducktales characters as kids and adults, on television no less! It was a big deal to me and hopefully this would be enough to reboot TaleSpin. What will it take if it's not?!) Kit and Molly appear here; but they are never seen again after their saga ended. Yes folks; Gosalyn Mallard is less over in the comics than Kit Cloudkicker and Molly Cunningham. I mean; that's true. Still Gosalyn is more over than Drake Mallard and he's the big hero at the end of this story! STUPID!

Legend Of The Chaos God: Crystal Chaos debuted in Disney Adventures Volume 4.09 in 1994; with To Half & Half Not (Featuring Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers) debuting in Disney Adventures Volume 4.12; Spookus Ex Machina (Goof Troop) debuting in Disney Adventures Volume 4.13, Tow For Broke (Ducktales) in Disney Adventures Volume 5.01 and Reign & Thunder (Darkwing Duck of course; because ducks rule and bears drool. Simple, really...) debuting in Disney Adventures Volume 5.02. True Baloo debuted on Disney Adventures Issue 5-01 in November 1994. For the sake of my sanity; I will only be ranting on Crystal Chaos in full; and then summarize the rest of it. Crystal Chaos will be the only one getting a star rating. How does this story fare?! Let's rant on shall we...?!

Legend of The Chaos God: Crystal Chaos is written by Bobbi JG Weiss and artwork is done by Cosme Quarteri, Carlos Valenti and Robert Bat. The remaining parts are more or less the same with David Cody Weiss assisting in Part 2 through 5. True Baloo is written by Bobbi & David Cody Weiss. The comics are inked and drawn by J. Sanchez, Robert Bat and Ruben Torrerio.

Opening Moment #1: The first page contains all the babyfaces looking at a ruby necklace on a gold chain with Rebecca having yellow whites in her eyes; thus completely giving away who is wearing the necklace in this story. That's the top half. The bottom half features shadowed footage of Molly running away from Rebecca wearing the necklace -- thus giving the plot away even more --, the SeaDuck flying with Baloo, Kit and Molly being towed by a rope and a scene of Don Karnage shooting the SeaDuck over an island. You got all that?! (A typical TaleSpin episode in a nutshell, minus Rebecca being brainwashed.)

The Legend Of The Chaos God: Crystal Chaos: We begin this one over the ocean near the island of Rakkinroon as the SeaDuck is flying over there. Inside the cockpit of the SeaDuck is Baloo flying, Kit navigating and Molly actually appears here. (I'm guessing Rebecca is mellowing out on her daughter joining in the fun. I mean, after "The Incredible Shrinking Molly" and "Molly Coddled", the damage is done and it's time to grow up sooner than you had hoped.) Baloo asks Molly to look out the window and Molly asks if this is where Professor Potsherd is located. Baloo states that this island is where he worked all summer. Molly wonders what he is doing as Kit explains that he has found the lost temple of Dumingluum and is digging up artifacts. Which is a form of tomb raiding methinks, but whatever. (Yup, how Ducktales of you, writer! Duminglumm seems to be a really mangled name for dumpling.) Molly asks what an artifact is and Baloo claims that it's something left behind by the ancients, like a pot or a piece of jewelry for instance. Potsherd is studying the treasure to find out why the Rikkinroon people had disappeared off the face of Earthia as Kit notices out of the window four CT-37's flying towards the island ahead of them. We see a dock containing five wooden barrels and at least ten wooden crates each labeled according to the artifacts where they belonged to. Apparently; there is a black room and a vestibule in this civilization. (A vestibule is a small room used as an entry way or reception area to a larger room. Also known as an antechamber.) Hilariously enough, all the barrels contain butter, flour and sugar, which is all empty. Kit wants Baloo to stop the pirates as we cut to Don Karnage in his CT-37 on the transmitter with Mad Dog. Mad Dog informs him that the SeaDuck is here. You know this was written by Bobbi Weiss when Don Karnage is calling Baloo "the cavalcade coming over the hill" and calling his Krackpotkin plan, "foolish-proof". (Which of course, is not and Don Karnage is being extremely vain.) Suddenly; the four CT-37's produce a giant net as Don cuts a promo about scooping up the goodies like bunnies. Baloo calls Don a lousy thief because Don is going to do all this without landing. (Hey, a lousy thief who knows to grab and run would be a smart thief, Pop-A-Bear! We don't need anymore shooting guns on this show.) Molly asks what Baloo is going to do about it and Baloo proclaims that there is only one thing left to do.

Which is to bag some pirates for himself as the SeaDuck nose dives towards the dock. (That sounds like a dumb plan only TaleSpin could pull off.) The SeaDuck then proceeds to fly right into the net to snap the net away doing corkscrews in the process, causing all the CT-37's to suffer massive whiplash and dizziness as one CT-37 drops into the drink. Baloo doesn't care either way as the SeaDuck bumps into one of the top crates from the black room. It opens and a golden trim pocket mirror bumps out of the crate and into the harbor, while a ruby on a golden chain lands right into an empty barrel of sugar. (Remember, this is all Baloo's fault for his crazy stunts that let Solego run loose in this entire arc, just to stop a bunch of Air Pirates. Damn, I sound like the Ontario Police Department now.) Moments later, the SeaDuck lands on the dock as Baloo waves to a dog nose furry wearing archaeological gear and boots holding one of the red vases as another one shattered on the dock. He doesn't seem all that angry about it as a child dog nose wearing a white shirt and some green shorts with shoes and white socks arrives, cheering Baloo for giving the pirates a spin. (He should have said "tailspin". It's not like adult Kit wasn't saying "Spin It!" in Ducktales 2017.) Baloo, Kit and Molly get out of the SeaDuck as Professor Potshred is deeply grateful for Baloo stopping the Air Pirates from selling these artifacts onto the black market. I don't think Don is that type of guy given his ego; but I guess keeping the artifacts on his treasure hoard is less of a dick heel move than selling it onto the black market. Baloo points out that he was delivering supplies and is kind of glad Karnage sleeps late because he almost missed the party. Kit introduces Molly to the kid with glasses on as Bisk Potshred as Molly calls the stuff they are digging up artsy facts. HAHA! That's some cute phonics from Molly there as Bisk corrects her. (Bisk, be careful. Molly is capable of burying you, just ask Kit Cloudkicker about it.) He also helps his father dig up these things as his father is trying to prove that the legendary Chaos God really existed and that it destroyed this Rakkinroon civilization hundreds of years ago. Huh; a play on Ragnarok I see. Is the Chaos God TaleSpin's answer to Odin?! TUNE INTO SOFT COPY TO FIND OUT~! Also; including the title; this is TaleSpin's number eight and number nine uses of the word god. (You get the feeling the comics thought that Magon didn't like small "g" god all that much unlike Tad Stones and just did it as a favor to Tad?!) Molly then gets the money shot line of the story and I quote:

Molly: Yeah?! Well, my mommy doesn't need any Chaos God! She's got Baloo!

I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. (An even sicker burn would be that "She's got Kit!" and Kit just looks in the hard camera like "Why are you doing this to me, writer?!") That's number ten for TaleSpin, and the third time children have used the word. Even Molly has a religious potty mouth. Anyhow; Baloo and Kit load up the wooden crates and barrels into the SeaDuck via the side door and that is that. Yes folks; the Air Pirates will never be seen again in this comic. And I'm certain we'll never see Bisk again either...HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~! More on that in the summary recap of this crossover, because I have a bone to pick with Bobbi and the artists later on. We head to the docks of Higher...For...Hire and then inside the office in front of Rebecca's desk as I swear to the Chaos God that the poses Baloo and Rebecca do are the same as the ones I saw in the Disney Movie TaleSpin Volume 3 DVD set. Only without fries and a camera. (Generative AI wasn't even a thing during that time, either.) Anyhow; Rebecca is being a jerkass again because Baloo was late delivering the artifacts and thus it forced Rebecca to call the museum to tell them that they have to deliver them tomorrow. Baloo rightfully points out that the Air Pirates were stealing the artifacts and thus they were trying to stop them. I would take Baloo's side in this and I don't blame him for it. Rebecca then gets on Baloo's case for chasing pirates with Molly in the SeaDuck. Oh; for god sakes Rebecca.... (Yeah, because the Air Pirates were ATTACKING the site where the artifacts are! This is so stupid!) Thankfully; Molly steps in to tell Rebecca that she's fine and Baloo saved everything. Ummm; not quite. There's a golden mirror in the drink and there's a vase shattered. But otherwise; everything is saved, thanks to the Baloopuff Boys~! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmm... (This is why Molly's charm is neccessary because Rebecca's Occam Razor is too dull to be used effectively.) Rebecca decides to let this one slide in the name of history and Kit and Molly talk about how lucky Baloo is to have her around for days like this. Hee hee! Rebecca goes to her desk, proclaims that the crisis has been averted and demands everyone go away because she has work to do. Baloo calls this no rest for the wicked and Kit gleefully retorts that one for me. (Baloo is arrested the wicked.)

Rebecca goes into the storage room containing barrels and the wooden crates as she checks to see what Professor Potsherd needs in supplies for next month. (Which explains the barrels from earlier, so it wasn't hilarious after all because former self was confused on who owned the barrels. It was not the natives that used to be on the island!) Rebecca checks her clipboard and sees that the butter, flour and sugar are empty. She unintentionally knocks over an empty sugar barrel and out comes the ruby on a golden chain. Rebecca kneels down and grabs the chain, calling it beautiful. Then she glows all red with an orange flame aura surrounding her body as the golden necklace speaks for the first time. It is proclaiming that it has found a body. Rebecca demands answers to this as the necklace addresses itself as Solego, the Chaos God. Now, Rebecca is his slave as she is going to help him return to this mortal world. So, he forces her to put the amulet on against her own will despite her protests. (God reference number eleven for this series. I just love how many people claim that the word god isn't allowed on Disney programming and yet in Rescue Rangers and Darkwing Duck, Tad Stones used the word like it was going out of style. Heck; TaleSpin uses the word in vain four times in the televised series and now seven times in the comics!) In comes Molly with a purple book as Solego growls at Molly. This causes her to be scared out of her wits and she bails out to the docks, screaming for help. Molly runs towards the end of the dock where the SeaDuck is along with Baloo and Kit. SolBecky sees the flying vehicle as the perfect device to escape from here. Now I know what you are thinking: How did Potshred handle the amulet without being controlled?! Answer: He did the same thing Kit did at the end of this story. More on that to come. (Hey, Kit Cloudkicker is not dumb and it made sense.) Molly grabs onto Baloo's arm as Baloo tells Molly to slow down and explain what is going on. Molly proclaims that something is wrong with her mother since she's growling and got funny eyes as they are glowing yellow with red whites inside of them. (Baloo is probably like: So, every time Rebecca is pissed off.)

Rebecca runs in off-screen and I think scares the babyfaces because they run away in shadow towards the office while Rebecca runs into the pilot's side of the cockpit of the SeaDuck. I think a panel is missing here for some reason. (Either the screen shot missed something, or this is a case of SUZY SHEEP~?! I still don't know right now.) Rebecca calls Solego a monster, in which it is as Solego blows her off and threatens violence on them. (Like a monster would. Pure DAVRO on Solego's part there.) Solego orders Rebecca to fly the SeaDuck out of there. Rebecca does it against her will and the SeaDuck takes off. (Keep in mind, at this point in the timeline, Rebecca can pilot a plane and has flown it twice before.) Rebecca's at the controls asking why she's forced to do this and what does Solego want. Solego explains that he is trapped in the red crystal and wants to regain his full powers. So, he must find the lost gold setting into which the crystal fits into as the two parts must be joined. I assume that it's that golden mirror that fell into the drink earlier in the story. (Well, that means Baloo just saved everyone then. At least for now. Okay, Baloo might have started it; but he didn't go all the way.) Solego wants what is his by conquest, which is all of Earthia. (Just Earthia?! That's thinking way too small, methinks. Or Solego is Christian.) We head to the docks with Baloo invoking the LASSO OF BANE TO ALL ACTION CARTOONS EVERYWHERE and lassos the tail section part of the plane. Baloo proclaims that this is odd because Rebecca cannot fly a plane which is total bullshit as seen in "Bringing Down Babyface' on television and even the later comic "Pirate For A Day". Baloo grabs the tow rope and flies up as Kit and Molly also jump high into the air and Kit grabs Baloo's ankle. Molly grabs Kit's ankle like a chain anthromorphic bear ladder. Baloo is absolutely protesting this because it's two kids who their combined ages are a decade or so younger than Baloo ever was deciding to get into a really dangerous situation. Every babyface in this show is crazy and the kids are even more so. (Geez, you would think Kit being a former Air Pirate would have convinced thee...) Rebecca notices the three bears hanging onto the tow rope and Solego orders her to shake them. Rebecca protests this for obvious reasons.

However, she is no match for Solego's will and the SeaDuck is flying dangerously close to the tall buildings. Molly screams as her grip on Kit's ankle is gone and she free falls. Kit lets go, and brings out a blue airfoil and places it under his feet. He grabs Molly on the rebound. However, they are heading straight for what I believe is the Zibaldo Clock Tower from "Time Waits For No Bear". Kit actually panics because he cannot control it with one additional person without a tow rope; ala "Mommy For a Day" and "It Came From Beneath the SeaDuck". HOLY CRAP! Why yes; they are teasing Kit and Molly going splat dead into a building, why do you ask?! Rebecca screams on cue as she overcomes the will of Solego and flies the SeaDuck around in position to get Kit and Molly to float into the side door of the SeaDuck. Baloo opens the door, climbs into the back as Kit and Molly help him in. Baloo wants to go into the cockpit to check on Rebecca, but in comes SolBecky looking as creepy as he can be. (Hey, they made Solego look like a terrorist mind game god in this whole thing. However, the babyface must win to keep the story going, so...) God reference #12 ensues. However, Rebecca grabs onto the ruby and struggles as she is not Solego. She is Rebecca Cunningham, who is taking her life back right now. Kit deduces that the necklace is poisoning her. Baloo panics because Molly calls Solego a meanie and runs in demanding her mommy back. Here's the finish to this TaleSpin tale: Molly jumps into Rebecca's lap causing the necklace to fly off Rebecca's neck and land on the ground. Molly and Rebecca embrace as Baloo invokes the LEGAL HAND OF GOD to get everyone to stay away from the necklace. (Molly just defeated Solego with a hug. Now THAT's a puny god.) We head to the cockpit of the SeaDuck as Rebecca and Molly are in the cockpit; which is the tell-tale sign that Kit is outside on his airfoil. Rebecca thinks Baloo should return the necklace to Potshred. Which would be sound advice, actually. (And let Don Karnage try to steal it, again?! Bad idea, Rebecca.) Baloo no sells that idea because it's too dangerous even for him. We see Kit on his airfoil on a tow rope from the SeaDuck with metal tongs, drops the necklace from the tongs and the necklace free falls into the ocean. Solego proclaims that he'll know better next time and that ends the story of TaleSpin. Yes folks; despite this being a crossover of DTVA shows, we will never see the TaleSpin gang again in this. In fact; only one of these characters in this story is ever seen again and it's Bisk of all people. It's too bad because this was an awesome part one with funny moments and Molly defeating a god without touching it at all. **** 3/4 (95%). (And now it's all downhill from there...)

The Legend of the Chaos God: To Half Or Half Not: And now for a short recap of the remaining parts of this crossover story. We head to circa 1989/1990 with Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers and the episode: "To Half & Half Not". We begin as the artists just have to create a canon of Rescue Rangers being in the same universe as Ducktales despite the fact that their adventures take place in the real world. (Ducktales 2017 at least tried to make the story be that the Rescue Rangers were created as mutants from Black Heron's lab. Sure, it's beyond the pale stupid; but the idea of the Rescue Rangers being in the said universe here requires multiverse magic that even SUZY SHEEP~ couldn't explain away. This is for the best, outside of not using the Rescue Rangers at all, which would have pissed off the cultish fans off. Even though this decision does the exact same thing.) A clone of Dijon and his friend on a fishing trolley hauls in fish. Dijon clone finds ruby necklace and is poisoned by Solego. Dijon clone goes to the museum with it to a dog nose furry in a blue suit who coordinates the museum, shows it to him and then walks out. Strangely; the golden chain is gone for some reason. The Rescue Rangers are inside the musuem AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) guarding treasure from Rakkinrookin as the golden setting and two halves of a mysterious Chaos God medallion were found as well. The Professor's name is Simon Potshred by the way. (Making doing mini recaps worth it just for that.) Mepps and Mole are inside with flashlights with Fat Cat as they play Mission Impossible for a while with plunger guns. Mepps uses a plunger gun with a glass cutter to open the glass where the gold setting is. Gadget invokes a slingshot rock, the rock nails the sprinkler and water comes out to blow everyone's cover. Monty's face looks horrible by the way as the crystal floats around in the massive flood in the museum. Mr. Fat gets poisoned. However, then gets swiped into Gadget as Gadget touches the crystal. Yes; the female gets poisoned again in this story. (Although the male heel also gets poisoned unintentionally as well.) However, Monty breaks that up by jumping on a pen and ink sprays into Mr. Fat's eyes and Gadget is forced off onto papers. Everyone runs in and Dale -- like the idiot that he is -- touches the crystal and goes heel again. Dale ties a rubber band against his will onto his back with the crystal on it and uses a green tissue to parachute off the table. Mr. Fat gives golden necklace to Mepps as SolDale runs in pissed off at Mr. Fat. Mr. Fat bails onto a giant bone T-Rex as SolDale rumbles it to destroy the bones and buries Mr. Fat. Mepps bails stage left with the necklace as everyone runs after him into a corkscrew pink water tank for some dizzy action before Mole steals the necklace and bails out. Mole uses the pedulum to escape and Mole tosses the necklace to Mr. Fat as SolDale runs in and bonks into Mole. The crystal goes flying and lands in the crystal holder and SolFat is cheering this victory. However, he makes the fatal error of standing on a simulated lightning generator and gets fried by lightning dropping the crystal. The finish is with Allan and Edgar -- two black crows -- flying away from Rescue Ranger headquarters with two bags containing the items. They are told by Chip to throw them away in the sewer and someone no one would suspect. (This sounds like a stupid move to me.) Chip feels relieved as Gadget does the Gruffi pose not convinced by this. (Gadget and I are self aware that this is stupid. She's right of course.) She seems pissed off at Dale for some reason and that ends it. I don't understand why they bothered with having the Rescue Rangers in this when their world is the real world and thus having everyone as dog noses just exposes the business. Story was all right. However, it's basically the same plot as TaleSpin. Only the Rescue Rangers got lucky and Solego beat himself, basically.

The Legend Of The Chaos God: Spookus Ex Machina: Now we go to Goof Troop's era as Edgar drops the crystal bag over an overpass. Which bounces off a tree and into a yellow car and a blue tow truck. That yellow truck belongs to Pete Pete as we see it delivered to Pete's house with Max and PJ looking on. Pete does the hard sell on the car -- because he's a greedy tweenish used car salesman in storyline -- before telling Max and PJ to leave because he needs to butter up Peg Pete. PJ snickers on that one as Goofy enters along with Peg. ($20 Peg gets poisoned in this story. Just a hunch.) The gimmick is that the car is like a human robot and can speak as one of the commands is to close the door when Pete gets in. (Sigh. I can just see the driver less car coming.) We also discover that the car can wash itself which impresses Peg. Goofy wants to shake hands; but the hands whack his hand in the process. Goofy tries to tell Pete about this; but Pete of course cuts him off because Peg is slowly buying into getting this car. Yes; Solego has control of a car basically. (Hey, at least it's not an anthro being poisoned this time...) Goofy tries to stop Pete from driving the car. (You know driver less cars are bad when GOOFY is the voice of reason here.) However, Pete tells him to buzz off and both he and Peg get in and drive around Spoonerville for a while. Then they come back and everything's fine. Night time ensues as Solego is pissed off inside the car calling the car awesome and Pete a stupid mortal. The necklace inside the engine shoots out a green wire from the hood of the car and inserts it into Goofy's television inside the living room of Goofy's house where Goofy is watching DARKWING...DUCK! Implying that only stupid goofs watch the show. Bravo Bobbi; bravo. You know ducks drool and bears rule! (Uh-oh! That means the bears and everyone else is toast now!) Next, we do the uncontrollable remote control routine which shows that Solego also hates Darkwing Duck. However, he also hates TaleSpin and Rescue Rangers, since those characters defeated him. Actually; it was Molly being awesome. Solego beat himself in a lucky shot in the last story. Goofy is not amused as we discover that Scrooge McDuck has brought the medallion and found it in a pawn shop. Begs the question: Who found the medallion?! Ace MacDonald from Duckberg was reporting on this as Solego hears this and pulls in the green wire wanting to go to Duckberg. Goofy sees this out of the windows and runs to Pete's house to scream at him. Pete answers the door acting like a jerk. However, Pete then gets grabbed by the car's medal clamps as the arms rip Pete's shirt while they escape into Pete's house and barricade the door. Peg is asking what this is about; and so the males lie about the car being awesome. This leads to Pete and Goofy going outside as Goofy channels a vampire hunter by bringing out garlic, salt, water, silver dollars with a slingshot -- because guns aren't allowed in Goof Troop you see -- and drives a wooden stake with a literal SLEDGEHAMMER OF PLOT right through the hood of the car. All this needs is a holy cross boomerang and Goofy is cosplaying Simon Belmont at this point. Pete threatens to kill Goofy -- who didn't kill the car -- as the two males get grabbed by the metal arms and are placed in the car. Pete decides to turn on the car with the key in the ignition and we race out of the driveway as Solego proclaims that they are going where he's going. Goofy takes over the wheel and drives the car over the cliff of doom. Goofy and Pete fly out of the car onto the edge as the car free falls into the abyss below and that crushes the car. Goofy and Pete look shocked as they walk back to the house relieved. Solego is in the car as Pete apparently left his cellphone in the car and Solego uses it to call a tow truck. HAHA! That ends part three.

The Legend Of The Chaos God: Tow For Broke: I'm shocked Ducktales is next because I thought Uncle Scrooge was more popular than Darkwing Duck in the comics realm. Oh well. We begin inside Scrooge's office at the Money Bin with Scrooge blowing off Fenton for claiming that Scrooge hired a tow truck operator to deliver a yellow car to him. Fenton asks what to do and Scrooge tells him not to give him any of his money, implying that Fenton has to pay for it with his own funds. Of course! The tow truck operator is dizzy for no good reason that I can think of. The tow truck operator decides to rent a hotel room and leave for the day. Fenton hears cries for help and notices the crystal necklace. He grabs it and is posioned by Solego's will. Fenton tries to fight it; but is forced to cut his :"OH MY GOD!" promo and turns into Gizmoduck. Then drives around a bit before SolDuck spits out Fenton, threatens violence on Fenton before thanking him and decides to let him live. I CLUB BS&P! (There is a reason why standard MO for the Air Pirates is "don't let them live".) SolDuck leaves and growls at the nephews on bicycles as he leaves. They are color coded; but wearing black shirts this time around as they follow and see Fenton on the ground dizzy. SolDuck crashes into the Money Bin as Scrooge is appalled and shocked in that order. SolDuck bails talking about liking to smash things. Only he's a monster heel; so it's perfectly all right. He couldn't find the medallion by the way. He threatens to kill Scrooge and I know some people are shocked to hear this. However, Ducktales and TaleSpin make threats all the time. The babyfaces run in as SolDuck reveals himself as the Chaos God. Dozens of dog nose officers with cars and rifles run in as well. SolDuck shoots through a brick wall and escapes as the nephews consult the Junior Woodchuck Guide Book on Solego and discover that Potshred is related to this. Scrooge realizes this right away and runs upstairs to arrange for Bisk Potshred to return to this comic via his private jet. Yes; Bisk is the character I was talking about returning to the comic crossover. You know who's not returning: The rest of the DTVA characters! Not even Kit and Molly in older forms. Brendala says this is for the best since it would imply that Rebecca and Baloo are dead and that would be sad. As opposed to them all being dead?! That makes no sense! (Even less of an excuse: No one from Goof Troop nor Rescue Rangers return in any form either. Yup, they are enforcing the "ducks rule" now. This arc is falling apart now.) Bisk arrives in Scrooge's office as we talk and talk and talk about Solego. They do replay the scene of Baloo going through the net to save the cargo, but Baloo is never directly mentioned. We also see Solego and his chaos for the first time. Long story short; he looks like a snake furry terrorizing dog noses. (He might be a descend of Klang for all I know.) So, some wizard created a crystal and during a big battle, the wizard imprisoned Solego because Solego cannot die you see. The guise of this whole thing is for Scrooge to keep the golden setting in his money bin. However, Scrooge says that it's in the cleaners somewhere in Saint Carnard because, of course! We have to have the "real hero" of the comics and DTVA involved in this story; because he's cool. Even though his routine is staler than fifty year old bread. Meanwhile; SolDuck has got his guns out throughout town. He uses the helicopter and flies away towards the east. Scrooge gets on his phone to phone SHUSH while ordering Fenton to leave to help GizmoDuck -- even though Fenton IS GizmoDuck -- because Scrooge wants DARKWING...DUCK! That ends part four.

The Legend Of The Chaos God: Regin & Thunder: We begin at SHUSH headquarters with Darkwing Duck and Launchpad exchanging notes with Gander. Yes; Bobbi's head canon is that Gizmoduck is the Ducktales version, while Launchpad is the Darkwing Duck version. In comes Fenton panicking as he literally drags Darkwing out of Gander's office. We go inside McDuck Jewelers as SolDuck enters and growls at the dognose in the purple suit. The purple suit guy gives up the golden setting and in comes Drake cutting his full of himself promo, calling himself the blister on the pinkie toe of crime. And we accuse modern cartoons of this nonsense?! Darkwing Duck; pioneer of Disney fart jokes. SolDuck rightfully uses the LOADED PUNCH GLOVE OF DEATH right in Drake's kisser for me. (And people accuse me of hating Baloo more?! Absurd!) SolDuck combines the crystal with the golden setting and reveals himself to be a dragon like snake with an orange robe. Well; that was a disappointment. I guess Amon was much more fashionable with his golden armor and spear than this guy. (Lufia, everyone.) So, instead of destruction and chaos; we get more talking as Drake insults him. Thankfully; Solego shoots thunderbolts at his feet as Fenton runs like the wind in a western direction. Drake and Launchpad bail in the opposite direction as Solego calls forth the black army. Which is by the way; his gravity powers which steal stuff. Even in the comics, the villain's motive is to plunder and steal. And to think; Don Karnage's Lightning Gun was the most believable weapon of all DTVA shows. Yes; he used it to steal; but it could have been used to kill anyone he wanted. In fact; he even teased killing Kit with it! The denizens of Saint Carnard flee as Solego brings out his stone lions he created from statues leading from a museum and drive Drake up a lamp pole. In runs Gizmo Duck for real with double sledgehammers of plot;. However, Solego counters with the THUNDER FINGERTIPS OF DEATH; destroying the suit. Then Solego "kills" Launchpad by literally turning him into chop liver because Solego ignored him. Sadly; he doesn't eat him as Drake dodges lightning bolts. Then, a golden fire hydrant shoots up water in the process. Now; at this point, if I was booking this; I would have all the characters from the previous stories, including a senior citizen version of Kit and Molly run in to distract Solego and Drake comes back with the gas gun and wins. Because the whole point of a crossover is that all the characters come together as one to beat the big meance, you see. That is how it worked in Project X Zone and Namco X Capcom. However; Bobbi believes that the twain should never meet unless it's duck characters or Bisk and here's how Drake beats Solego: Drake gets behind a sattelite dish. Solego shoots lightning and it reflects off the dish hitting him in the chest. Yes, for the second time in this comic, Solego beats himself and goes back into the crystal. Now the finish makes sense since Solego's own magic was what beat him the first time. However, what a puny god of a monster heel Solego is?! Also, Launchpad and GizmoDuck's suit revive on cue and that is that. We head to SHUSH as Bisk explains all. Bisk uses the tongs to place the crystal onto the jade tomb box much to Solego's protests as this ends the story. This was really lame of an ending to a really epic story. Again; Drake Mallard is credited with saving the day and somehow it's the heel who beats himself. Molly Cunningham and Goofy Goof were bigger heroes than Drake Mallard here. (Plus, no Gosalyn Mallard, either! Even Kit Cloudkicker did work in this arc.) Ponder that for a moment and realize why Darkwing Duck is so overrated.

True Baloo -We begin this story with the SeaDuck landing on an island called Wannanonow Island. (Wanna Know Now which can be dangerous if left unprepared.) Baloo, Kit, Rebecca and WildCat are heading to the Ceeitall Temple which is part of the Ceeitall Tribe. (See it all, and know nothing according to Dale from Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers.) The guise of this mission is to find a mirror and bring it back to Mr. Khan who never appears in this story. The artwork is okay, but the coloring is not good. Kit's face looks like a lighter shade of brown and it looks like in the first panel that they were trying to make the darker brown legs look like pants. Epic fail! Baloo's got a green towel of some kind as we head into the temple with the four babyfaces looking around. The mirror in question apparently allows you to ask question, like the mirror on the wall in Snow White, or something. (This cannot end well for anyone, especially heels.) WildCat then finds a mirror with green trim on the wall and wonders if this is the mirror as Baloo claims that Khan is paying $3000 for it, which is basically the cost of a gaming PC to play three to six games per year including two Battle Royale games, and then call console game players broke. Oh wait, that was a PlayStation salt video, my mistake. (Yup, this was ranted on much later than the rest of the comics on this rant actually. Almost past 2020 actually.) WildCat Puma is loving the image he sees as Baloo and company come over. Baloo covers the mirror because he thinks it's dangerous. At this point, Kit's face is the same shade as his legs as WildCat is like Molly in that it's not dangerous. The mirror is uncovered as Kit is shocked and appalled because the mirror is his true image. Sadly, we never get to see Kit's face nor anyone else. (Hmm, what could be so bad about Kit Cloudkicker?! I smell a reboot angle commencing!) This would make for an interesting Ducktales 2017 episode when done right. Oh, here comes Don Karnage, Mad Dog, Dumptruck and Hacksaw, just to make sure there is four big scary monsters to set up the upside down scene coming up. Baloo has apparently covered up the mirror again as Don and Baloo exchange threats and insults for a while. Don is self-aware of how much Baloo is involved in stealing treasure away and wants the mirror; but Baloo is having none of this.

Don Karnage is such a NPD guy that he believes in truth, justice and being handsome. HA! (By the way, NPD is narcissistic personality disorder here. Don Karnage has nothing to do with NPD Fun, since it's gone now.) Baloo isn't buying this crap. This means Don Karnage is going to punish them in the torture chamber; only with crocodiles in a swimming pool. Dumptruck walks away with the mirror, Hacksaw has his styled gun set to profits, Don Karnage switches an arm on a creamy humanoid like statue to open the lid of said swimming pool, Rebecca gasps in horror and Mad Dog is either in shadow or written out by teleport. Later; Kit, Baloo, WildCat and Rebecca are tied up and hanging upside down over the swimming pool of crocodiles. Kit is the only one whose hands are tied in front of him, the rest are to the back. (You would think by now after all the times Kit Cloudkicker has wrecked the pirates that they would either tie his arms back his back or head; or rip the limbs off said body. Of course not, because the pirates have to be stupid in the end.) Don waves goodbye and is about to leave as the ceiling contains a slicer seem in factories on How It's Made. Baloo then has a plan: He taunts Don into looking into the mirror himself because he wonders if Don is curious about the truth. Don no sells the truth part, but he is vain anyway. So, he'll take a peek just this once. (That would be a fatal mistake...) Dumptruck uncovers the mirror, the pirates all panic in unison because they just discover introspection and NPD's hate that. So, the heels all flee and are never seen again in this story. Baloo is pissed off about this despite this being the plan as Kit once again manages to get the red airfoil from his sweater while tied up and throws it on the switch to reserve field. The swimming pool closes up completely and the slicer cuts the rope and everyone falls down on their chins. OUCH! (Kit saves them from being eaten, but cannot save their chins from being broken.) Scene change to the SeaDuck flying in the sky as the babyfaces left the mirror at the temple. Kit is worried about payment, but Baloo thinks it's too dangerous to give it to Mr. Khan; and besides introspection is all you need to see the truth without a need of a mirror. That ends the story. Fun story for what it was, albeit a little messy. *** 1/2 (70%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Okay; we have finally ended the epic DTVA crossover comic story and I must say that it started off really awesome as only TaleSpin can pull it off. Solego felt like an unstoppable heel at the time and it took a good shot by Molly of all people to save Rebecca. Solego Becky was great, it had an Air Pirate attack, Kit saving Molly and Molly being awesome. I liked this and Bisk and Simon were pretty good in their roles, too. However, I wish I could say the rest of the story was awesome. The rest of the arc ranged from very good (Part Four), to good with a banana peel slip finish (Part two), just there with Goofy being great (Part Three) and your average Darkwing Duck love in with a lame finish (Part Five). I was also very disappointed at the end because only Scrooge, Fenton and Bisk returned for the final story when in crossovers since everyone should have returned. Sure; you would have to force the artists to make a senior citizen version of Kit and Molly. (No; it wouldn't be more tragic if only Baloo and Rebecca are dead, Brendala. Besides, the dream truly happened in Ducktales 2017 and I think "The Lost Cargo Of Kit Cloudkicker" was great, actually. I'm probably one of the few who legit loved the episode in fact! Sky Pirates...In the Sky was also good, too. I felt the creator handled the TaleSpin characters very well given that they had to work in the time/world differences in order for it all to make sense.) However, the whole point of the crossover is to bring the characters back to overcome the menace. Here; Solego beats himself for the third time in the story. (The first time with Molly was awesome, because Molly did deliver the final blow to defeat Solego, effectively burying the puny god. Solego was not booked really strong in this entire arc.) That was lame and it just serves once again that Drake Mallard is totally overrated. If he had just used his gas gun to blind Solego and Solego shoots himself that way; at least Drake's direct actions led to the finish. Of course; Solego is not dead, so this feud has to continue somehow, probably being killed in Gravity Falls had Hirsh catch wind of this and continued the series, just for that before finally ending it. (Oh well, Solego was referenced in Ducktales 2017 and was probably really Bradford under a new name for all I know.)

It's too bad, the first episode was great, but it went downhill from there because they basically did the same plot in each one until GizmoDuck in Part four. True Baloo was basically a fun small story about a mirror, with coloring mistakes. The story was well told, but the artwork and coloring needed work. (I don't know what else to say, it was what it was and it was fun.) Anyhow; that is the final North American TaleSpin comic story I could find. Granted; there are still two major stories left from there; but most of them have disappeared down the memory hole. (Nope, all of them have been reviewed in some way. Only the four unused stories from the Disney Adventures have yet to be ranted on and only two are available, with only one complete on the internet.) However; there is still The Wrong Culprit and Vertigo Baloo left from the French comics, so that comes next and that will conclude our 25 Years Of Spin Celebration for the most part. After that; I'm adding trivia, cleaning up the reviews and adding commentary to a few articles and then starting prep work for Christmas and 2017. So...

Thumbs up for Legend Of The Chaos God: Crystal Chaos, thumbs in the middle for True Baloo and I'll see you all next time.

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