Tieri and Flynn bring Superduck to the 21st century as part of Archie Comics’ general reboot of all its properties and what a reboot it was! The original Superduck harbors a lot of similarities to Donald Duck being hotheaded avians with hen-pecking girlfriends and mischievous nephews. However, Superduck gains his powers from biting super vitamins that allow him to be the cock-eyed wonder and champion of Ducktropolis. Though some of the messes are of his own making as well.

Anyway, this reboot is not for kids as the original was. Innuendo and cursing abound as it has its fun lampooning cliche villain tropes and leaning into the Donald Duck confusion. The villain is even named Dapper Duck, a scheming captalistic money-monger that hates the poor and charges old ladies for crossing the street.

However, after a brutal fight with a giant robot, Super Duck passes out and recieves the fatal diagnosis that those super vitamins have been slowly killing him while he basked in his industrictble feats.

It’s quite fun but unfortunately cancelled after this one issue so one will never how Super Duck deals with this downgrade in life nor the rich Scottish uncle who is going to help him (no it’s not Scrooge as many are expecting). Too bad, I wanted to see more, maybe a gofundme campaign will get their attention.