Return to 50 Webs

Disclaimer#1: All images, characters and material is (C) 1990/1991 Walt Disney Company and is being used without permission. The web master has made sure that no money was made in the creation of this web page and that all material used here is used with the up most affection and respect to the Walt Disney Company and the Tale Spin Team.

Disclaimer#2: The views expressed here are solely the views of the web master and no one else. The web master has no intentions to change anyone's minds about a particular subject and respects the views of the viewers. Comments about this and other editorial can be E-Mail at gweagle@eastlink.ca or signing the Cloudkicker guest book.

TaleSpin Comics: The Wrong Culprit/Vertigo Baloo/Baloo & The Flying Carpet Rant

Reviewed: 10/04/2016
Additional Commentary/Edited: 11/28/2025

Welcome To The Wacky World Of TaleSpin Comics, Super Baloo Style!

Original Release: 01/10/1992 (The Wrong Culprit), 08/21/1992 (Vertigo Baloo), 00/00/199x (Baloo & The Flying Carpet) .

Pre-Rant Note: All three rants were translated and localized by me in order to make it make sense with the spirit of the show. So, I did embellish the story quite a bit. Baloo & The Flying Carpet's translation is in the comment section below and as I noted, two of the pages were cut off; but the pictures told enough of a story for me to get a read on what is going on. Please forgive me because Steet didn't scan the pictures properly enough to get all the dialogue in for me to translate. (2025 Gregory Weagle Says: Despite the book images for the most part no longer being available due to TaleSpin Source no longer running, my comments on the book which contained the transcript I translated were still perserved at the Internet Archive and I was able to salavage my transcript, except for two of the nine pages released.)

Baloo Vertigo Transcript
The Wrong Culprit Transcript
Baloo & The Flying Carpet Transcript

Now that all the English comic stories of this series are done -- well; all that I could find anyway --; now it's time to finish this series off with some stories that were released in France only. (I should note that as of this additional commentary, at least four new stories have been found and two of them have been released. These were stories that never made release anywhere and we're designed for USA release before the Disney Comics collapse: Oogonnamucka Mayhem, Not Our Kind Of Folks (which sadly only found one panel), and two unused stories from INDUCKS that I don't have the names for since the website is dead now. I'll do some more digging and see if I can find the final two titles. (Note from the future: The names are "Beans to Bullion" and "I've Got a Gold Mine, You've Got a Gold Yours".) "Silence, You Cheater!" is already been done and Steet translated that one for us. However; Steet has three other stories that were untranslated left on the slate and those ones are the ones I will deal with in this article. The French comics are weird in the sense that everyone is totally out of character with their English counterparts and the world TaleSpin is in is in the 1980's Ducktales world. (Most of that is partially due to lack of localization on Steet and my part since we used direct translations from French and English (Google translate, everyone.) and doing that will always cause problems. Even Bobbi Weiss's translation of "The Volcano Of Gold" is far from flawless.) It looks very too modern to be the TaleSpin world. (That part on the other hand is not the translator's fault. That's all on the original writer and artists. Fair warning: A TaleSpin reboot will be 1990's in 1930's motif like in the pre-production stages.) The plot of "Vertiges/Vertigo Baloo" (Direct translation is "Dizzyness" I should note. I chose "Vertigo" because it's clear what the aliment is in storyline.) is as follows according to INDUCKS: Baloo is suddenly dizzy and finds himself unable to fly. With the help of Kit, WildCat and Molly, he hides his handicap to Rebecca while trying to find a solution. But Shere Khan discovers the secret and decides to force Baloo to undergo a medical examination in order to officially force Baloo to retire. Baloo will eventually overcome his phobia in the simulator and again pass a bad time to Shere Khan who had the bad idea to take it up with him.

The plot of "The Wrong Culprit" is that Khan trying to screw over Higher For Hire to make them go out of business by using invisible planes to attack the SeaDuck and force it to do dangerous moves, causing Baloo to lose his license. Meanwhile, Khan has the company deliver a package to a non-existent island in order to force Higher For Hire to lose the rest of their money and go out of business. Baloo & The Flying Carpet is basically Don Karnage destroys the SeaDuck with a missile and Kit uses a magic carpet to defeat Don and make the SeaDuck fly again. Yeah; in the comics, every plot involves Khan ruining Baloo and Higher For Hire only to get screwed over by Baloo. It happened in "Volcano Of Gold" as well. The Wrong Culprit debuted in The Journal Of Mickey 2064 in 1992 and later was translated in Germany in 1995. Vertigo Baloo (Also known as "Vertiges" which translates into Dizziness. I embellished the title a bit due to the generic nature of the story title.) debuted in The Journal Of Mickey 2096 in 1992. This one was available from Steet via the French edition of the TaleSpin Animation Source website. (Which like INDUCKS is gone now.) Baloo & The Flying Carpet debuted in 1992 as a standalone children's story released only in France. I also believe that there are two more children stories in other languages (Russia I do believe.), including one featuring the TaleSpin gang in Atlantis actually. I think I have pictures from that storybook. (Sadly, not enough to do a rant on at this time.) How do these stories fare? Let's rant on, shall we?!

The Wrong Culprit (Super Baloo name: "Le faux coupable") and Vertigo Baloo (Super Baloo name: "Vertiges") is written by Alan Clement and artwork is done by Valentin Domenech. Valentine according to lambiek: Valentin Doménech Capdevila is a Spanish comic artist and animator. He is affiliated with Comicup in Barcelona, a studio that provides artwork for the European Disney publications. He started out drawing Disney comics in 1979, making 'Chip 'n' Dale', 'Hiawatha', 'Li'l Bad Wolf' and 'Scamp' stories for the Danish magazine Anders And & Co.. In the 1986-1987 period his name appeared in the colophon of the magazines Pulgarcito and Mortadelo by Bruguera/Ediciones B. By the mid-1990s, he was drawing several stories starring the little mermaid 'Ariel' and other movie related characters for the Dutch Donald Duck weekly. He was also one of the artists for the Dutch magazine Donald Duck Junior in 2008-2009. Between 2000 and 2007, Doménech has illustrated several 'Little Hiawatha' stories scripted by Michel Motti or Benoît Grenier for Le Journal de Mickey in France, and he has also produced a lot of artwork for Disney Princess titles. He was the artist of the comic book adaptation of 'The Emperor's New Groove' in 2001. Doménech (his name is also written as Doménec) has been working in animation since 1966, starting with participating in the Andersen adaptation 'El mago de los sueños'. He has since worked on TV shows like 'Yogi's Space Race', 'The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show', 'Lucky Luke', 'Count Duckula', 'Benjamin Blümchen' and 'Victor and Hugo, Bunglers in Crime'. He has worked through Fernando Trueba PC, Estudio Mariscal, ACCIO and Firman Productions on projects like 'Astérix y los Vikingos' (2006), 'The 3 Wise Men' (2003) and 'Chico & Rita' (2010). Huh. He has 28 Animation Department credits, and 1 of each Writing, Art Department and Misc credits to his resume. As for Alan Clement; he wrote comic scripts for Spirou in 1981/1982, then Disney stories from 1986 to present along with a script for Aidos Palomita in 1991. He scripted mostly Mickey Mouse comics, and a few Donald Duck comics here and there among others. I have nothing on "Baloo & The Flying Carpet" and it's probably for the best as you'll see.

Vertigo Baloo: We begin in the skies inside the cockpit of the SeaDuck with Baloo whistling. Now witness the French comic writer totally not figuring out who is who as we get out of character moment number one: Molly Cunningham is on the radio in the office of Higher...For... Hire with headphones on talking to Baloo as if she knows how to use one. That one I can accept because Kit probably taught her how to work this radio and good for him on that. However, there's one problem with this. This leads to out of character moment number two: Kit is sitting at the table and for the love of life, despite being Baloo's navigator and knowing complex math; he cannot do multiplication tables. He seriously thinks that seven times three equals seventy-three! Seriously! This does lead to a very funny moment later on; but it makes absolutely no sense. (If you ever want to know where Kit Cloudkicker in "The Lost Cargo Of Kit Cloudkicker!" could not subtract four from ten, this is where Tanner got the idea from. When I rant on that episode of Ducktales 2017, if ever: Please remember what I said here.) Also, it seems that this writer dislikes Kit so much that the writer proceeds to bury Kit at nearly every turn in this story. More on that later on. Molly is asking Baloo his position and Baloo on the transmitters tells her that he's over "Delta Ratata" at ten thousand feet. (A real Pokemon reference before Pokemon existed, how very nice, how very evil.) He ponders this for a bit and then starts to have a nasty panic attack and scream loudly which causes Kit and Molly to run out of the office. We see WildCat -- who is named Turbo in the French version of this series -- with a bag of tools and is apparently going to play golf with them. (Also, Turbo was what Della was going to call Dewey Duck before Donald Duck overruled it.) Molly believes something is wrong with Baloo as he lands the SeaDuck, skipping off the water and lands beside the docks as Kit, Molly and WildCat run in. WildCat claims that he is flying like he swallowed the flight stick. Baloo gets out via the pilot's door looking dizzy as hell and sweating like he's at an Oscar convention. (The fish from Fish Hooks, not Oscar Vandersnoot from this show.) This is not a good combination.

Molly claims that he looks pale and deduces that he has vertigo. Yes, Molly, who is six years old can figure out who has vertigo now. (Something tells me Molly experienced this either with her mother or her father and that was what proves that Mr. Cunningham is decease: He died in a plane crash after experiencing a nasty bout of vertigo. Hey, it would at least justify why he is dead, but damn that would be cold.) Kit cannot believe this is happening as WildCat calls this deja vu; implying that Baloo has suffered this before and somehow hasn't gotten completely over it. WildCat to be honest talks like a normal person; but 99% of that is due to my very poor man's translation of the comic. "The Wrong Culprit" was more in line with WildCat as the writer felt that changing S's and C's to F's was the way to go. The guise of this is that if Rebecca finds out about it; she'll fire Baloo and hire another pilot. Molly panics because here comes Rebecca with a basket of carrots. The comic claims it is leeks; but they look nothing like leeks. (Ah, the pitfalls of translating with Google translate I see.) WildCat thinks this is a disaster as Rebecca notices Baloo on the ground and asks if he is sick. WildCat acts like this is an accusation and Kit is thinking that this is dumb on WildCat's part. Molly's save for this is that Baloo told a very funny story and the joke is that this other guy said that even with four legs and one open eye, I still have vertigo. Everyone does the most contrived fake laugh they could muster. I'm sure this would come off better on television; but whatever. Rebecca lets it go and informs Baloo that he has to deliver books to Jaquou Zudor's island (I'm sure his name would be changed in the North American version if it ever came out; but whatever. I mention this now because the Disney Afternoon comics being released recently also includes comics that were not released in the USA. Although none of the Super Baloo French exclusive comics have been released yet.) Baloo doesn't like this at all; and as I discovered later, this went absolutely nowhere because we never see this paid off in any way. Then we get a really funny moment: Kit proclaims that he has nothing better to do and will help Baloo on this delivery in the SeaDuck.

Rebecca walks into the office. Rebecca then shows up at the window with Kit's math homework; and proclaims that Kit is banned from the SeaDuck as long as 7 X 3 = 73! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Told you to play 21 there, Li'l Britches. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummm... Yes; this makes Kit look like a complete moron; but it was in fact funny. (For those who get mad at Daddy Pig being dumb, I don't like Kit Cloudkicker being this dumb because it contradicts his character. But again, when it's funny, I like Kit being dumb.) Kit didn't think it was so funny as he grumbles with explosive symbols. There is a lot of that in the French comics; but one swear didn't get censored later on actually. We head outside as Molly is on the radio with Kit having his trusty map. He's banned from the SeaDuck; but not banned from helping Molly on the radio. (Well, he can multitask doing his homework properly and back up Molly on the radio. Perfectly reasonable thing to do.) Okay; good to know. Rebecca comes over, asks what they are doing and accusing them of having something to hide. Molly claims that they are doing a radio show and only a radio show. Yeah, I'll bet. (How do you do a radio show with an audience of one?! Molly is being a sneaky sus girl again and I love it.) Cut to the docks as this is a purposeful distraction to have WildCat blindfold Baloo as Kit will take care of everything on the ground. WildCat orders him to not take the blindfold off. Baloo orders WildCat to tie it tighter since there is still light shining in his eyes. Back to Kit and Molly as Kit has a pocket watch on standby as Kit reads the map. Molly asks if this will work and Kit claims it will because he knows Cape Suzette like the back of his hat. Normally; I would have the best of confidence in this poor guy, but the writer seriously believes that Kit cannot do math properly, so it taints the experience quite a lot. (This is going to be a disaster, I'll bet because this writer must have a grudge against awesome child characters who are male. Or something.) We head in the skies with the SeaDuck flying as Baloo is piloting in the cockpit with the blindfold on. The pocket watch is ticking on the ground where Kit and Molly are as Molly is communicating with Baloo and Baloo says everything is all right thus far.

Molly states that according to Kit's calculations, they should be arriving at Zudor's island any minute now. Okay; here is where they confused me: Rebecca said they were delivering books; but as you'll see, they were not delivering books. (Time to panic because I'm sure what is said here is likely going to be checked into the drug lexicon.) It might be a translation error on my part. Anyway, we head to next to a swimming pool near the grass. Cut to a dog nose in a purple bathing suit with red hair smoking a cigar with a bird furry with blond hair wearing a swimming bra and small swimming trunks lying on an orange towel with a wine glass filled with liquid, a straw and lemon slice. I'm going to hazard a guess that Jaquou Zudor is the red haired dog nose. I should point out that the French comics are not only more into the Ducktales universe than even the North American comics, but they also modernize every show they touch. This TaleSpin feels like 1987 than 1937 if you catch my drift. Zudor notices the SeaDuck, lights a lit cigar and smokes it in plain sight. Probably only one of maybe three times you will ever see that in this series. (I will not be surprised if there was smoking originally in the unused stories that finally got released, but those were likely censored for obvious reasons. However, I have not seen the originals since they were never released during the Disney Comic collapse, so I can only speculate and no more.) Also, for the second time in DTVA history (Cheddarhead Charlie in Rescue Rangers said this in an episode. Don't worry, he didn't say "fuck".) the female bird furry blows him off for accusing her of being blind and also said "Damn you!" or "What the hell?!" Of course; this would be changed if it made to North America; but the fact that the French comics allowed it in the first place is amazing. The comics are less squeaky clean than the televised show and just imagine how nasty the television series is. (Drunken patron at Louie's in the beginning of "The Volcano Of Gold" which is technically a Super Baloo cartoon, I'm just saying.) The guise of this is that the swimming pool is built on a wasteland. Why?! I don't know because it was out of nowhere and went about the same place. Molly tells Baloo to drop the cargo right now.

Baloo sells and drops the cargo as it parachutes into the swimming pool as the wooden crate tells us that it shouldn't be exposed to moisture. Zudor protests this outage, calling Baloo a vandal because the cargo is actually dry cakes. Hence; my confusion as to why Rebecca said to deliver books. Unless the books were called "Dry Cakes"; or dry cakes is slang for books in France. I don't know. (It's a joke about a cake that is dry due to bad preparation and overbaking. Dry Cakes are in fact sold as a cookie made of pure butter. The joke is that the cakes become "Wet Cakes" when exposed to water. It's a semi-neat gag, and it's not drug slang at all.) Second time swearing was replaced with explosive symbols in the story. We cut to a cruise ship as Shere Khan is on the front as he hears airplane noise and tells his butler Tah-ksi (a brown rabbit in butler gear) to give him a telescope. He sells and Khan gets the telescope. He looks up and notices the SeaDuck. As with most French comics: Khan displays a lot more emotion and childish anger than he ever did in the televised series. The North American comics kept him sort of reserved in comparison to the French comics. (There is nothing wrong with making Mr. Khan into a full-on heel CEO. However, he's supposed to be a reallly cold hearted and cold blooded man. Those two traits are not babyface material.) Khan fumes about Baloo flying the SeaDuck with his eyes closed and then notices Baloo with the blindfold on. He laments about Baloo being a waste of talent working for Higher For Hire. (Considering what happend in "Save The Tiger!", I would not be acting like I want Baloo back if I were Mr. Khan.) He then notices smoke on the right engine as it is catching fire for some reason. Kit is now talking on the radio as Baloo believes that something is happening on-board. Kit tells Baloo to take the blindfold off, which is a very stupid thing to do. Even Baloo thinks this is a terrible idea and Molly actually sides with Kit on this one. (WHY?! This writer is sabotaging Kit and Molly agrees with Kit?! This is so stupid.) Baloo takes off the blindfold and Baloo was right as he panics like crazy as Kit tells him not to panic. Easy for you to say; you need to panic about your math skills as of late. (Ouch! Who says I cannot give Kit "The Miracle Worker" Cloudkicker a sick burn?! Only because the writer has a grudge of some kind.)

Kit tells Baloo to push the button to the fire extinguisher and Baloo is so paralyzed by fear that Kit forgets where the button is. Molly is absolutely flustered by that one because she knows Kit is being booked to being this dumb. Kit finally states that it's the button below the anemometer. Baloo pushes the red button which is always a signal that nothing good comes out of it; and that one dumps the fuel out of the tanks, making the flames bigger. Yeap; this is the worst Kit performance ever now. (Kit?! You are dealing with a simpleton. Talk like one if you are friends with him. You'll thank yourself later.) I should note that the comics refer to oil as kerosene for some odd reason. (Probably a British English to American English thingie, nothing really wrong with it.) We return to the motorboat with Shere Khan ordering Tah-ski to follow the plane before cutting back to Baloo screaming on the radio as Rebecca comes in asking why Baloo is screaming. Kit insists that he's singing. I would rather ask where Kit parked his brain this morning because it has been farting all over him in this story. (Probably at the opera?! POW! OUCH! Ummmm...) We head to Cape Suzette as Khan has his motorboat parked on the brick docks. Khan gets out thinking that there are only two reasons for this happening. Number one is Baloo's head is concussed, or that Baloo is a fraud basically. Occam's Razor suggests concussed. Khan's Razor is always a fraud! SCRATCH! OUCH! Ummmm... (Neither one is correct, it's vertigo.) We see the SeaDuck heading down over an overpass as Baloo is protesting to Molly on the radio because Molly is telling Baloo to land in the canal river. Which is usually a smart move. However; in this case, there is a child swimmer and para-sailor in the canal. Molly apparently reconsiders and tells Baloo to take the blindfold off. Ummm; so where does the SeaDuck land you may ask?! In the canal of course and it safely lands. (Yeah, it lands in the place Molly tells Baloo to reconsider because a swimmer and para-sailor are in said canal, and now both are gone and the SeaDuck lands safely. Either those canal users are dead, which is bayond the pale horrible, or this is a case of SUZY SHEEP~?!) That was pointless and stupid tension I should note.

Kit, Molly and WildCat run towards the SeaDuck on the brick dock as a bird police officer cuts them off because the SeaDuck is on fire despite the fact that it doesn't even look that way. (This comic strips continuity is completely shot now.) WildCat jumps onto the tail section of the SeaDuck and returns with Baloo looking dizzy as hell. The bird police officer taps his foot as Khan comes in. WildCat tells us that Baloo's paralyzed with fear. Khan then reveals that an article of Cape Suzette Air Regulations states that he has the right to demand that the pilot pass a medical exam to resume flying in the SeaDuck; which is a reasonable request. (Regardless of being a CEO or a private citizen of the world, this is a good idea.) Everyone acts shocked and appalled by this; because in the French comics, Shere Khan is actively trying to put Higher For Hire out of business. See "Volcano Of Gold" and the upcoming story next. (I feel like I'm watching a live action drama like Chicago FD in cartoon form for children and Chicago FD is clearly for adults. Even despite all of the bullshit, Kevin Johnston's analysis is still true.) We head to Rebecca's apartment as Rebecca comes out of the kitchen with yellow colored food as Kit, Molly, WildCat and Baloo are sitting at the table. Baloo is wearing dark sunglasses as he looks dizzy still. Rebecca asks why Khan demanded a medical exam of Baloo and Kit proclaims that it's because it's Shere Khan. I cannot argue with that overwhelming logic there, pod Kit. Yes; I mean Pod Kit. The real Kit would know 7 X 3 = 21; not 73! (Also, not give ideas to Tanner.) WildCat goes into a promo about complicating their lives and it does not jellyfish. That was the best I could come up with as a joke on short notice. Bobbi would do a lot better than I ever could, trust me on that one. Baloo gets a plate of the yellow mush and tries to use a fork; but the fork nails him in the nose as Rebecca asks about wearing sunglasses at the table as Baloo claims that it's the latest in aviation fashion. Baloo and Molly exchange whisper notes on each other as Baloo basically states that the glasses are used to cover the fact that he cannot open his eyes because of the vertigo. Rebecca waves it off and giggles as she tells Baloo to go see the doctor. Implying that she's onto him now and that is that. I really like this Rebecca compared to the North American comics just for that.

Kit and Molly giggle awkwardly as Baloo pushes his food away. We head outside the doctor's office of Doctor Tikoli, who is in doctor's gear as Baloo, Kit, Molly and WildCat are outside his office waiting. Tikoli calls for Baloo and Baloo walks into his office wanting to get this over with. We head inside Tikoli's office as he wants Baloo to take off his glasses and ask him what is wrong. Baloo takes off the glasses and looks to be panicky; but then recoils and proclaims that he has one white hair. Okay; that was pointless. Tikoli isn't convinced because that doesn't make you sick with dizziness. Tikoli proclaims that dizziness has it's sources and he has to fly over and take height...as in altitude and this makes Baloo dizzier and sweater as he is thinking these things over. So, not only does he has vertigo; he's scared as Tikoli is stroking his chin, deep in thought. This is so awful for Baloo that he sprints out of his office and into the bathroom holding his mouth in his hands, looking like he's going to throw up. (This is similar to a vaccine commercial I watched recently, only it was more subtle and the man hid his head in a cupboard at the doctor's office.) Tikoli walks out as Kit asks if this is not too bad and Tikoli absolutely calls him out on it. This causes Molly to be flustered and thinks Kit is a total idiot. (This was the peak of Kit being buried in the French comics. Thankfully, the "Wrong Culprit" buried Kit is much more hilarious ways.) In comes Shere Khan as WildCat asks what Tikoli has decided. Tikoli proclaims that there's only one thing left to do as Shere Khan basically says that Baloo must forfeit his license to fly forever. Baloo comes out of the bathroom asking if he's finished as a pilot and Khan says "yes". Tikoli says "maybe". However, our good doctor wants to blind Baloo with SCIENCE PROOF~ before he can make Khan's dream official. (That's a reasonable response from the doctor.) Tikoli wants to perform an official test for ability as Khan calls it inability and annoying Kit with his claws. This is a shout out to Khan wanting to stalk Mowgli in The Jungle Book which is a nice touch. Everyone enters a giant room containing a fridge sized box attached to a robotic arm.

There is a room with a radio next to the giant room with two way glass windows. The box is a giant flight simulator which completely shows how modern this world is seen in the comics over in France. It's so awkwardly out of place in this show. Tikoli tells Baloo to enter the simulator and he goes over to the door as Khan follows him as Kit protests this. Khan explains that he has the right too under the regulations to be a witness to the test directly; which is carny talk for "I bare witness to Baloo's demise as a pilot". He also proclaims that he helped write the regulations; and knowing Khan, he probably did. He is a CEOHole after all. He also called Kit "a young thug". So even the French comics were hinting about his pirate past. Khan enters the simulator first as Baloo is about to enter; but Molly stops him. Baloo turns around and they both embrace as Molly kisses him on the cheek and proclaims that the family loves him. Ahhhhh! My heart melted! She was also in tears; which is a great way to tease the possibility that Baloo will fail the test as Baloo enters the simulator. (I'll give the writer this: They did setup the pathos for simulator moment very well. It's just that these simulators would be unlikely existing in 1937. Now, if the show gets rebooted, all bets are off!) Tikoli, Kit, Molly and WildCat enter the radio room next door as Tikoli is on the radio ordering Baloo to touch the controls and start flying. Baloo absolutely no sells as Khan is next to him in the simulator. Baloo will not touch the controllers as Tikoli is yelling at him twice more. Tikoli then gives up and assumes the vertigo is real and irreversible as he goes away to make the report. Baloo slowly takes the glasses off as he sees his family as blurred images. Ten seconds later; the images clear up and he sees them. He then stops selling dizziness, takes the flight controls and tells Khan to hold onto his belt. (I called it "kneecaps" in the transcript, because this makes more sense with the show and belt is too close to a groin joke.) Khan is shocked and horrified as Baloo flies the simulator upside down and does barrel rolls for fun as Kit goes over to Tikoli and tells him to shred the report because Baloo has basically past the test.

Narrator: One hour later...

Baloo is still playing with the simulator like a toy as Tikoli is pleading for Baloo to stop playing with the simulator as this was probably a good reason to do so because the robotic arm breaks as the simulator bounces all over the places, breaks down the brick wall (So much for that pudding, everyone!) and lands in the sidewalk. The door opens as Khan busts out and runs off stage right holding his mouth about ready to throw up. Baloo proclaims that he held longer than Khan and that was that. That was amusing at least as we head back in the skies with Baloo flying the SeaDuck, Molly on the radio talking to him and Kit still at the table unable to get it through his head that 7 X 3 = 21. He is absolutely stumped at this question. (I shake my head in disbelief here.) Molly asks for Baloo's position and Baloo's elevation is at 15,000 feet and he feels great. Molly then tells us that Khan has moved his lobby to the top floor and his office to the ground floor as Baloo wonders why. Well; we find out that this is all true as Khan is dizzy and sick at his desk in his office which is the ground floor of his tower as Tikoli informs him that he has vertigo as the president of the biggest company in Cape Suzette (the comics say "airline"; but that makes no sense) and that ends the story. This was a cute story that was the worst performance Kit has ever done in his career. Molly was great in this one and it was clunky for the most part; but most of that can be blamed on my translation, rather than a lack of effort on the writers part. *** (60%).

The Wrong Culprit: We begin this one at the beach of Cape Suzette as various dog noses are playing along and having a great time in the water and sand. In comes a brown panther furry with a hedgehog style haircut, yellow shirt and purple shorts with sandals carrying a bag and towel whistling and setting up on a spot on the sand. Khan is looking from his tower at the top floor of his office with binoculars addressing him as "the president" of something. He calls him predictable as well as we also see a really hilarious sight because Molly has literally buried Kit in the sand! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I just knew Molly would take burying cynical Kit to it's logical conclusion. (Sadly, she didn't pay it off by tickling his feet because it was daring to be done here.) Kit is fuming and all like: "Don't give Michael Eisner any ideas!" Too late, Kit; should have told Len Uhley to book you as Rebecca's son. Apparently; in very early stages of development for the TaleSpin series, Kit was supposed to be Rebecca's son who longed for a father figure; but since that would play into Rebecca's husband's disappearance, they nixed the idea. (In fact, Ted Heinz actually brought this up in the pre-production stages of Stormy Weather where the plot was massively different compared to the final product!) Kit might have also originally been a fox as well; although my notes confuse me sometimes. Did Rebecca and Molly start as bears, then foxes and then back into bears?! I need to check that one out. Anyhow; the SeaDuck arrives with a banner that reads: "Do not get robbed: Higher For Hire steals for you!" That's a really dumb slogan! (Yeah, I know TaleSpin stole the character designs from the animated Robin Hood movie along with the names of the Jungle Book movie during the final Walt days, but come on now! Kit is not Robin Hood...yet.) Molly claims that Baloo has gone cuckoo as Kit calls it ears of roosters. Don't ask; it's a French joke. (The joke is that Baloo's ears are like roosters since his ears are hidden and are like earplugs. It makes no sense to me, but Molly doesn't like the slogan either and Kit don't care. HAHA!) Molly and Baloo crack jokes on Khan saying that he's yellow as Khan is not amused because even if he's yellow, he'll get the last laugh on them. Then four CT-37's in blue sky color surround the SeaDuck which Baloo figures out right away since the pirates themselves are not painted sky blue.

They force Baloo to dive towards the beach as he claims he has to jettison the banner; but we never see it jettison. I'm sure if this made television, that spot would be shown. Kit, Molly and the president are shocked as the SeaDuck hyperboles down and up causing all the beach goers to scatter in various directions. A nut suddenly falls and lands in front of Kit as Kit thinks he heard more than two engines. (Please remember that for later.) Kit notices the nut and puts it in his pocket as the president gets up (looking shirtless) and protests this outrage. The man addresses himself as the "President of Cape Suzette Air Affairs" and threatens to take his license away the second he lands or crashes whenever comes sooner. Wait; you cannot revoke his license now?! Why not?! (Basically to setup Baloo forcing to land due to lack of fuel, so that he crashes and dies. Wanna bet he's in Khan's back pocket?!) Molly is crying as Kit protests this outrage as he claims that if the president revokes his license, Higher For Hire and Baloo would be destroyed. I embellished that line a bit for context reasons; because Kit literally says kill in the French comic from a direct translation. The president takes out a note pad and thanks Kit for the information! Oops! (There is no such thing as pleading the fifth admendment in the TaleSpin world. Even if there was, Kit should have done that before he spoke! Honesty can sometimes be incriminating.) Kit and Molly run off stage right fuming over that gaffe as Khan cheers for victory. There's more dog fighting in the skies with transparent CT-37's. The guise of this is; Baloo can see the air pirates; but no one else can because their planes are colored the same color as the sky. However; Kit heard more than two engines; so he's playing detective here. We head to Higher...For...Hire as Rebecca is at her desk with a tall stack of bills as WildCat is at the front. Rebecca proclaims that they have a lot of bills to pay; but zero profits to pay them. Apparently; Higher For Hire is the only air cargo business left that Khan hasn't ruined yet. Wow; this company has to be the TNA of this world. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmm... (And in 2025, they would still be the TNA of this world, only less funny because there are now dozens of good wrestling promotions around now.)

WildCat offers to sell his tools and use his hands and teeth again as Rebecca kindly blows it off because it won't be enough. Rebecca needs a client, or a miracle, or both as in comes Shere Khan wearing a lion mask with orange hair. He is called Share Khen by the way; which of course anyone with an IQ of 12 would see this coming; but the French comics have to make everyone stupid, including Rebecca. (Geez, not even Share Knot?! That would at least be a fun little gag.) We head outside on a path towards the docks as Kit enters with a purple skateboard, which would be completely out of place in the show. (It's only off by 13 years or so.) However, the French comics make this show take place in the 1980's instead of the 1930's like it should be. Share is wearing yellow shorts with red splashes on it. He will be wearing these for the rest of the story. I would like to know why this happened, since he never wore shorts after this even in the French comics. (Maybe he planned to take a long vacation somewhere to hide before gaining Higher For Hire for real?! I do recall in Ducktales 2017, there was a golfer similar to Shere Khan, albeit not called that. Also a note: Baloo, Louie and Shere Khan were fair game in Ducktales 2017, the writers simply decided not to use them for storyline purposes. ) Molly is wearing a purple/lime green bathing suit as Kit insists to Molly that he heard the equivalent of three planes. They make it to outside the office and call out for Rebecca as WildCat cuts them off to inform them that Rebecca is with a furious customer. Really, now?! Share sounds so mad. Not. Anyhow; the guise of this is to show off WildCat's spitting teeth skills. Seriously; that is what he did. He claims that he's trying to get used to shooting nuts and bolts with his teeth; but that makes no sense. We head inside the office as Share Khen and Rebecca are going over the rules of engagement concerning the contract. Basically; the contract is simple: Deliver this parcel to this island and Higher For Fire gets $100,000; but fail and Higher For Hire has to pay the same amount back. The issue of this of course is that in story line: Baloo can not land or crash the plane because if he does, he loses his license and that ruins the company. So, Khan's plan is to make sure Baloo lands somewhere in Cape Suzette. (I don't know why because I assume that the president's revoke includes outside Cape Suzette and any international areas.)

Rebecca calls this very risky as Khen invokes the "nothing in life comes without risk"; which is true. Rebecca agrees and signs the deal outright. Share Khen walks out of the office as Kit and Molly enter it. Shere Khan removes the mask after they go in to inform Rebecca that Baloo is in trouble with the president as Rebecca protests this because Baloo knows the regulations. WildCat asks if it's engine failure and Kit claims that it's not because WildCat's engines never fail. (Which is a dumb thing to say; but...) Kit thinks there are three invisible planes. In comes the president calling this irrelevant because acrobats are not allowed to fly airplanes. What an ablest this president bastard is?! (I can see the Molly Cunningham Danger Woman feud commencing in the reboot of TaleSpin now...) We head back in the skies as the SeaDuck is now over Higher For Hire and Don orders his minions (Mad Dog and Dumptruck) to retreat basically. They sell and retreat just like that as Baloo claims that his plane is a steam iron now as we head outside on the docks. Rebecca invokes the WRAITH OF BECKEY on the president. She is angry that the president accused Baloo of being an acrobat. (Yeah, that's Kit and Molly's gimmick and they are not flying planes until at least 17!) Molly hears the sound of engines of the SeaDuck as Kit panics and runs towards the edge of the docks, jumps into a motorboat and pilots the motorboat right straight into the SeaDuck's view. Like I said before: If Kit can drive a motorboat by himself; then Phineas & Ferb can drive whatever the hell they want to. (It's called a cartoon for a reason.) Kit pleads for Baloo to not land -- in spite of Rebecca's protests -- and pull up. Baloo sees him wave and pulls up into the sky as Molly goes into the radio and gets on headsets because her gimmick is that she can operate a radio by herself now. (Hey, at least they are keeping Molly's radio gimmick for the French comics.) She tells Baloo not to worry about this and Baloo decides to let it go. Kit docks the motorboat and runs back to Rebecca as the president storms out basically saying that if he lands anywhere, his license is revoked on the spot officially. By the way; in France, the SeaDuck is called "Daredevil"; which is the translation I got of Casse-cou. Back inside the radio room as Molly asks why he scared everyone on the beach.

Baloo asks if they had seen Don Karnage and his piles of chip bags forcing him to do the "Sandcastle Shave". Kit claims he didn't see them; but he heard more than a couple of engines, indicating that they are invisible. Baloo is confused at this as WildCat and Rebecca exchange notes on the situation. Rebecca doesn't know what to do and wants Baloo to deliver the package and get the money. However, Baloo cannot land because he'll lose his license. Rebecca decides to hire another pilot and pay him later until the situation is cleared up as she grabs the package. WildCat proclaims that this would work, but the parcel stays here. Kit notices this and steals the package, blowing off Rebecca! Huh?! (Wow, that was awfully defiant of Kit there?!) Kit gets on his skateboard and rides out of the office yelling to Molly to have Baloo meet on dock number four. Which by the way, is the same dock underneath the Higher For Hire sign. Baloo flies low enough to not land as Kit ponders about holding his own in the air and becoming a pilot someday. He jumps off his skateboard, throws the package through the window of the navigator's side of the SeaDuck and it goes into Baloo's lap with ease. Baloo is confused because it's not his birtday as we cut to a limo driving away with Khan looking on with his binoculars praising Kit for helping him and proclaiming that he's unstoppable now. (While what Kit did was stupid in the end, he doesn't know Khan is behind this yet. This comic story was a lot better in terms of booking Kit Cloudkicker, but it does lead to a horrible finish later on not involving him.) Then; what happens next might just be the greatest Rebecca/Kit moment ever: Rebecca runs in towards the end of the dock fuming as Kit lands on the docks perfectly. This is a similar stunt he pulled in Stormy Weather by the way as Kit is proud to help. Rebecca then gives Kit the WRAITH OF BECKEY as this was reckless and crazy. (Compared to all the shit Kit has done in the televised series and out get called out on, this sounds really mean. However...) She as a concerned parent and adult has decided to take away Kit's dessert for tonight. She is angry as hell over this....Then she stops being angry, hugs Kit and proclaims that as his boss; she promises him triple the desserts for the rest of the year and thanks him. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! (...I laughed my ass off so much it was worth it. Kit Cloudkicker is our GEEK OF THE WEEK~!)

Kit is like "What the hell is this?!" HAHA! That was the high point of the story folks; it's all downhill from here. Rebecca goes back into the storage room with WildCat and gets on the radio. (I'm guessing she shooed Molly off of it and told her to get changed since Molly wears her regular gear for the rest of the episode. Kit is wearing a green shirt I should note instead of his green sweater, since the shirt has no patches on it.) Rebecca inform Baloo about why he was not allowed to land as Baloo protests this outrage. Rebecca believes him; but wants to talk about it later since there is a parcel to be delievered. Baloo checks the parcel and it's addressed to C. Biddon (See Bid On.) on the island of Smokdemirras. My translation is a play on "Smoke & Mirrors" by the way, which I believe is similar to the original. Baloo asks if this sounds familiar to Rebecca. Rebecca says no and asks WildCat to find his maps. WildCat goes to his map as Baloo checks his two maps which one of them is torn and one of them is stained. Some things never change with Pop-A-Bear. We head outside as Molly (in her regular gear) is noticing Kit fuming and kicking a pop can. Kit is pissed off that he has been denied dessert for the night because it was going to be crepes tonight. (I didn't know Kit loves the same dish that is a play on the city that he now lives in. Has to be a rib.) Wow, Kit is really ungrateful here in this comic. He could have triple crepes for the rest of the year; and he only cares about tonight. Damn; it's like Kit has been Johnny Assed into a stereotype here, if you catch my drift. (To be fair, this comic is much funnier than the Baloo Vertigo when it comes to Kit burials.) Kit calls this unfair -- which in a way, it is -- and brings out the nut from his pocket. Kit thinks it fell from the SeaDuck as Molly calls this serious and it's time to see WildCat. We head into his workshop as WildCat is bringing out a wrench from his drawer (NOT THOSE ONES~!) as Kit shows him the nut and thinks this puts Baloo in a dangerous situation. WildCat looks at it and proclaims that it's a plane nut; but it doesn't match the SeaDuck. WildCat basically states that it's an oil nut and if it goes the plane will leak out oil. This proves that the SeaDuck was chased by at least one invisible plane. (Which ties Don Karnage and the pirates to the crime scene.)

WildCat also calls this outrageous, calls the defective mechanic an idiot and offers to take care of the nut personally, fixing it up. I can only imagine how Bobbi would have wrote this scene if this comic made it to North America. Kit figures that other planes were chasing Baloo and walks out away from Molly. Molly offers to come along as Kit basically says that he's only going for a walk. Note that he never says "no" to Molly. (I'm 100% certain that the localization will have him say "no".) Still, Molly calls him out on it, threatens to scream to her mommy and Kit will lose his right to spin gently ever again. (Anyone who speaks French and understands English: What did Molly just say?!) Kit has this look that screams: "Why are you doing this to me, writer?!" He was not amused at all. (This is one of the only times Molly did a burial of Kit that was legit not funny.) Kit and Molly head outside the beach on a dirt rood with skateboard and roller skates as they pass the area and look around. (Molly is at least wearing something that could have existed in 1937!) Kit is looking for liquid that looks like melted chocolate that doesn't taste good. Molly turns around and notices a trail of oil on the road. Molly squeaks and Kit turns around and notices it. Molly takes this as proof that she was right that she went along with Kit. Of course! They follow the trail and discover a brick wall leading to a compound for Khan Industries with a sign that says "Forbidden Entry". Molly wonders if they go over the wall; they lose the desserts. Kit doesn't care and both he and Molly climb over the brick wall anyway. The two kids jump down and hide behind the bushes as Kit and Molly notice Khan is talking to Don Karnage and Mad Dog. They thank each other as Don Karnage is sticking the blade end of his cutlass in his teeth while cutting a promo about pulling teeth out with it. Off-screen Don Karnage literally cuts himself and bleeds as he screams to Mad Dog to save his capitan. (By the way, I don't believe there was any wound nor cut nor blood in this panel.) Mad Dog runs in and bandages Karnage's face like a mummy. In the French version; Mad Dog and Dumptruck are named after the word "nose" basically, while Karnage is spelt Carnage like Kefka is spelt Cefca in Japan. We discover that Khan is responsible for the idea of painting the CT-37's blue.

Khan basically blurts out that he is ruining Higher For Hire, was the one behind the parcel and the attempt to get Baloo's license revoked in order for him to fix prices as he pleases. Kit is not happy to see this as more forensic evidence is shown as we discover that Dumptruck's CT-37's crashed into the ground in the compound and is leaking oil like crazy. Khan doesn't care anyway because it's a small price to pay in order to become the only airline business around. Molly is crying as Kit wants her to shut up; but they hear her crying and instead of finding them instantly and using them as a bargining chip, the kids are hiding inside a grey Mario-equse pipe and no one can find them. Khan explains the plan to ruin Higher For Hire as Kit and Molly bail stage left without being noticed. Karnage calls Khan a "machiavellian"! That amused me as Khan calls it flattering. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. We head back in the skies over water as the SeaDuck is flying overhead. Baloo is in the cockpit not understanding what Rebecca said as we cut back to the radio room as Rebecca discover that neither "C. Biddon" nor the "Island of Smokdemiras" exists on the map. (Clue: When there is no first name or the first name is an initial, it's likely that this is a fraudiant contract.) Baloo is sweating and feels bad as he has bad news of his own. He is almost out of fuel. He has as much fuel as they have profit right now. Also, if they revoke his license, they'll have to get wet basically. Wait; if he's outside Cape Suzette; does the president have any authority there?! (I asked that question earlier and still don't know.) Not that it matters now as Rebecca tells Baloo to calm down and open the parcel. Baloo opens the parcel and it's a "Khan-In-The-Box"! Oh, snap! Rebecca gets the LIGHT BULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY realizing that Share Khen is Shere Khan, despite everyone else reading this figuring it out. Baloo turns the SeaDuck around and heads back to Cape Suzette. Kit and Molly run in to tell Rebecca about this as Rebecca admits that she has basically figured this out on her own. The babyfaces tell Baloo off-screen as Rebecca asks if Baloo is all right. Now; remember "Silence, You Cheater!" and it's finish?! At least in that story; the plane was sabotaged and Baloo didn't fly it into Khan's office at the end of that story. As horrible as that sounded; this one is much, much worse. Here's what happened: Baloo is flying the SeaDuck over the beach and proclaims that he is going to crash the plane; but not on the beach. He hyperboles up; screams at Khan and flies it straight at Khan's office on top of Khan Tower. Khan is inside his office drinking wine proclaiming victory. (Yes, it was wine, deal with it. There is something far worse than a CEOhole drinking alcohol...) Baloo screams Shere Khan's name at the top of his lungs and crashes the SeaDuck right into the building inside his office. Amazingly enough; Baloo only destroyed the wall and nothing else. You could never get away with this after 9/11 in DTVA. Never!

Baloo gets out with the "Khan-In-The-Box" in tow and protests this outrage as he grabs Khan by the collar and threatens to throw him out of the window to see if he hovers or flies. HOLY CRAP! Baloo is turning into a monster heel before our eyes. Khan protests this outrage because he has no proof that Khan did anything to him. Rebecca, Kit and Molly run into the office. Rebecca claims that Kit and Molly saw everything and heck; there is forsenic evidence to tie Khan to this; so it's not like they are lying here, or anything. Khan blows it off because there's no proof. Despite the forensic evidence against Khan and the pirates, guess what forces Khan to confess?! Rebecca proclaims that the truth always comes from a child's mouth and both Kit and Molly basically call Khan a pervert. Now; I said "dirty old man" in the transcript simply because that is how it would have been translated in North America. However; Kit and Molly are clearly saying that Khan's a pervert here. Khan's a lot of things; but pervert is not one of them. Khan finally relents and writes a personal cheque for $100,000 plus repairs to the SeaDuck even though the SeaDuck was undamaged for the most part. It's the office of Khan's that got damaged. Kit is so mean in this story as Baloo takes out his license and cries because it won't matter since he crashed his plane and thus he loses the license. Khan basically informs us that Khan subsidizes 99% of the businesses and basically proclaims that he'll give Baloo back his license. Which actually makes sense since he help write most of the regulations for the airline industry anyway as seen in Vertigo Baloo. We head back to the docks of Higher For Hire as Baloo has taken off in the SeaDuck with a new banner that reads: "Do not get stolen by Khan Industries: Higher For Hire steals for you!" At least that one makes sense in the grand scheme of things as Rebecca calls Khan a "good loser" as Kit proclaims that Khan will see the sign and get sick. Strangely; WildCat is addressing Molly even though Molly doesn't speak at all in this scene as WildCat basically says that prison would have hurt him the most. That's very profound, actually. (No, not really without bankrupting the company first since that would hurt even more...) We head to Khan's office as the SeaDuck is flying with the banner outside just to rub it in. Khan is in bed with a dog doctor asking him what's wrong other than Jaundice which is a legit medical condition believe it or not. The doctor asks what put him in such a state and that ends the story. This was a mess of a story with some really funny moments at Kit's expense, but otherwise, it was just there. That finish was horrible and made no sense even though the babyfaces had all the evidence they needed to put Khan away and they stooped to the "pervert" scream to win. The ending was cute at least. ** 1/2 (50%).

Baloo & The Flying Carpet: Okay, this storybook's cover features Kit and Baloo flying cargo on a magic carpet while Don Karnage flies his CT-37 looking pissed off. The artwork is great here and it seriously looks like they put some effort into it. Sadly; the story is not good. We begin with Baloo and Kit on the docks of Higher...For...Hire as Rebecca wants Baloo to deliver goods in rapid time to Port Bay. First off; you may have noticed this, but Baloo is called Super Baloo here. Steet claims that it was to kiddify the show; which is silly since Super Mario exists and everyone played that game; even adults. I think the French team did it in order to prevent confusion between Baloo Von Bruinwald XIII from this show and Baloo from the Jungle Book. Is there an obscure law in France about copyright that I'm not aware of?! Anyhow; the second thing is, the location is completely generic. Now; the docks contain a carpet and wooden crates and suddenly here comes Don Karnage in his CT-37. Okay; now the artists have clearly never watched the show. Ummm; don't they realize that Cape Suzette and Higher For Hire have Cliff Guns and a small entrance and thus Don Karnage couldn't get it without being spotted and fired at?! Yeah; Don somehow got in without incident. Baloo and Kit notice him right away as Don drops a missile which is helpfully colored in the colors of the SeaDuck. It explodes, damaging the SeaDuck beyond repair. According to the dialogue; Shere Khan ordered Don to do this. Why?! I don't know because we never see Mr. Khan in this story at all. In fact; he's never mentioned again. Why bother saying that Khan was behind this?! Don would have done this without Khan's blessing anyway. Don's CT-37 flies away without further incident. Baloo is worried because you can only reach Port Bay by plane and I should note that Baloo sounds like he's saying this in the artwork, but the line is spoken by Kit for no reason. Kit has a plan as he brings out the conveniently placed carpet and explains that Rebecca told him that it came from a Middle Eastern place and thus the carpet is magical. He rolls it out as Baloo is confused. Kit then puts the wooden box and a barrel and tells Baloo to get on the carpet. Baloo sells and he and Kit get on the carpet and the carpet flies into air. We are really Dragon Questing this story good, huh?! Kit has a surprise for Don as they find the CT-37 and get above it for Kit to open the barrel and pour some ink/oil on Don Karnage's head. Don goes into a tailspin (BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) off-screen and that is that as we never see Don Karnage again in this story. Then we get back to the docks as Kit is nailing down the carpet with a hammer and nails. He's doing this because he's using the carpet as the new engine, which is so dumb it has to work. Yup, it does as Baloo is flying the SeaDuck in the sky as Kit, Rebecca and Molly come out on the docks to wave at him. Rebecca thanks Kit for getting the SeaDuck back in the air. We end the story with a summary of the book because the writers literally think kids have the memory of three seconds. The babyfaces are on the docks with the SeaDuck on the water with the flying carpet. That's it everyone; and this was just a mess. * 1/2 (30%). This is the worst story in the TaleSpin series, books or television. (If you don't include the conspiracy Federator video of course.) The idea is cute for a one off spot; but the logic breaks killed it.

THE REVIEW LINE

Well; what more can I say?! Every story was average to bad in this one, mostly due to how out of character everyone ultimately was. The stories themselves were not bad, but every single one of them was a mess. Half of that is mostly due to my very poor man's translation (in the case of WildCat and Don Karnage); but the other half was due to the writer changing the characters personalities. Rebecca is much more docile in these stories; although in some respects, it was a relief compared to "Volcano Of Gold" for instance. Kit looked like he was used as the butt of all jokes; although in "The Wrong Culprit", it was pretty funny. I also hated Baloo crashing the SeaDuck into Khan's building as well as him wanting to kill Khan. Thankfully; Rebecca broke it up near the end. Baloo & The Flying Carpet was a mess of logic breaks which was cute as a one off gag; and seeing Kit win is great and all; but seriously. Vertigo Baloo was the best one of the three; mostly because the story made sense; but it felt held back and Kit had his worst performance ever in the series as he acted really stupid throughout. I swore at times; Kit and WildCat had stolen each others' personalities. Overall; this was probably the worst group of comics in the whole ordeal, but only Baloo & The Flying Carpet was terrible, so I can live with that.

That concludes the 25 Years Of Spin Celebration, basically! I still have at most eighteen comic book stories left and a few children's books; along with the video games. (Now it's down to just the four unused stories, a few children's books and the Super Baloo stuff Steet couldn't find.) but those can be done in 2020 when hopefully, I will have that material available since all of those have disappeared down the memory hole. Sadly; this means that the pilot comic story "Mission - Maybe Sort Of A Little Impossible" will not be reviewed as a result. Too bad. (Too bad indeed since I found that comic strip recently and it's the epic mess everyone says it is and then some. I'll be doing additional commentary for that one soon.) Anyhow; I'm going to be cleaning up these rants, adding trivia, doing additional commentary that was missed in the television rants and other things before I officially wrap up this and do prep work for 2017. I really did enjoy reviewing this show and all; but I suffered burnout mostly due to doing transcripts for the television series. I still love this series and I can still see it as great in spite of me using a more critical eye in noticing these things. I hope that in 2020; there will be at least more information on this series from Tim's new book; and maybe, we'll get that reboot that is long overdue. (Keep waiting former self, it doesn't happen and a waste of $500.) Sure; I have no faith in them doing this, but after Zootopia's performance this year, it has made thing slightly more possible than before. (Well we got adult Kit Cloudkicker and Molly Cunningham in Ducktales 2017 along with Don Karnage #2, so there is that...) So...

Thumbs down for Baloo & The Flying Carpet, thumbs in the middle for Vertigo Baloo/The Wrong Culprit and I'll see you all next time.

Back to TaleSpin Rants!
Return to the Rant Shack!
Return to the Unofficial Kit Cloudkicker Homepage!