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When you get to a certain level of fame and notoriety, a biography - better yet, an autobiography - is a must-do to better know a celebrity. That's why this autobiography of Darkwing Duck is long overdue.

Disney's terror that flaps in the night has been flapping around on our screens and in our minds for over 30 years, and finally (finally) a Darkwing Duck autobiography is happening - sort of. In a new Darkwing Duck comic book series, the fowl that felons most fear is bowing to public pressure (and that of his daughter, Gosalyn) to tell the astonishing story of the mallard we know as Darkwing Duck.

How is all of this happening? I had the same question, so I asked Darkwing Duck's ghostwriter on his autobiography (of course, he has a ghostwriter), Daniel Kibblesmith. Kibblesmith was a writer on CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and has also been a writer on Max's Clone High.

"Why wouldn't he?" Kibblesmith says, incredulously. "Darkwing Duck is the greatest crimefighter in the world, according to ... Darkwing Duck. The only writer capable of chronicling his adventures is therefore ... Darkwing Duck. As a 'fun-reliable' narrator, he'll be able to capture the grandeur of his escapades without too many inconvenient facts getting in the way. They say 'print the legend' and he's the legend."

As Kibblesmith infers, the Darkwing Duck legend autobiography is being printed in the new Darkwing Duck comic book series published by Dynamite Entertainment in partnership with Disney. It is being told as a story-inside-a-story, so while we won't be able to read the whole autobiography as told by Kibblesmith and the art team of Ted Brandt & Ro Stein as part of a larger story about Darkwing and his adopted daughter, Gosalyn.

Darkwing Duck and Gosalyn's relationship has had its ups and downs (remember the cartoon?), but as his biographer Daniel Kibblesmith says it is rooted in love.

"Darkwing is dry, sarcastic, even openly annoyed with her, but it's always tampered by an incredible tenderness and bottomless parental love. He'd do anything for her," says Kibblesmith. "She'd also do anything for HIM, which is a problem because sometimes that means sneaking out to dangerous situations so she can whack things with a hockey stick."

With only so many pages and so much ink, the story of Darkwing Duck's autobiography will be less about what we already have known and seen in the original Darkwing Duck animated series but more like all the Darkwing Duck episodes we've never seen.

"We're structuring these stories kind of like 'Untold Tales of Darkwing Duck," says the writer. "The goal is to make them feel like 'lost' episodes that could easily slot in to the original show. Only in convenient paper form to read while you're driving, or at a boring wedding."

Darkwing Duck #1 will be available at your local comic store, as well as on Amazon.

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