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With the world threatened to fall under the sway of the sinister Despoina, her Shadow Society and the pending arrival of the Reaper King, writer Brandon Seifert and artist Karl Moline give readers “Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird” #5, the final chapter of this series. For those late to the party, Seifert provides a recap in the opening pair of pages through the words of Roland Keep, uncle of the series’ main protagonists, Maxwell and Melody. Seifert writes the Keep family in a slightly more hip way than the families found on the made-for-Disney Channel movies. While none of the characters are overly developed, it’s not hard to imagine Johnny Depp plugged into Roland’s role, bringing his charisma and charm that made his run as Jack Sparrow so well received. The story that Seifert plugs the Keeps into is a run of the mill, “Stop the villain by securing this artifact” story. The writer manages to craft enough wrinkles to keep it entertaining, but given this is the closing chapter

The wild imagination of Rolly Crump continues to come to life in “Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird” #2 by writer Brandon Seifert with art from Karl Moline and Rick Magyar. This comic book continues the adventures of Maxwell and Melody Keep as they try to process the insanity that consumed their lives and destroyed their home in the series’ debut. Seifert’s personalities for Maxwell and Melody, as well as their estranged and strange (and now legless) Uncle Roland are all very distinct, if not very deep. The issue opens in the Great Hall of the Museum of the Weird as Maxwell and Melody Keep try to determine where they are, where to go and how to find their parents based on the drips and drabs of information their Uncle Roland provides. Roland is not keen on answering questions and chooses instead to send his niece and nephew on a quest in response to the demands of Shadow Society. Their first goal is to claim the chair with the face on it. That leads to the Warden’s Library where

Inspired by the designs of Disney Imagineer Rolly Crump with additional credit also given to Disney Imagineers Jim Clark, Brian Crosby, Tom Morris and Josh Shipley, “Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird” #1 brings unrealized ideas out of imagination and into comic books in Disney’s first co-branded, Marvel-published adventure, written by Brandon Seifert with art by Karl Moline and inks by Rick Magyar. A single page of text at the back of the issue reveals that many of the ideas in this comic book were intended to share space with the Haunted Mansion, but Walt Disney himself pulled them aside to be used at a later date in a different attraction. That attraction was supposed to be the Museum of the Weird, but it never materialized in Disney’s lifetime. Those ideas, meanwhile, have been waiting for an outlet and a backstory to power them along, which is provided in “Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird” #1. Seifert frames the story around a fairly typical family named the Keeps: Ma

Growing up, I lived for the Saturday afternoons when TV 50 out of Detroit would be playing a Godzilla movie. Of course, them playing it was always a little different from me flat out watching it, as I was a child and children are expected to be outdoors, especially when the weather is nice. If the weather wasn’t nice, well, that would also challenge my chances of seeing “Godzilla vs. the Sea-Monster,” or “Godzilla on Monster Island,” or whatever movie was on. After all, this was long before DVRs, VCRs, or even cable. All the same, Godzilla became a mainstay of my consciousness. I still thrill to the opportunity of viewing a Godzilla flick. Or reading a Godzilla comic. Of late, though, the attempts haven’t neared the glory of yesteryear, whether that was solely manufactured by my mind or if those older attempts were simply more pure. This book, however, looks to change much of that, if this first issue is anything to judge the series by. Eric Powel, Tracy Marsh, and Phil Hester unde