Editing Darkwing Duck (section)

====Comic creatorship====
Throughout the run of [[BOOM! Studios]]' ''Darkwing Duck'' comic series, there was controversy as to who was responsible for the series. Editor Aaron Sparrow is largely credited with the idea to relaunch the property and has claimed to have plotted the first arc and come up with many of the concepts for following story arcs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://negaverse.net/TheOldhaunt/showthread.php?tid=1735 |title="Comic Q&A: Ask The Professionals", The Old Haunt: A Darkwing Duck forum |access-date=2011-07-06 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407120202/http://negaverse.net/TheOldhaunt/showthread.php?tid=1735 |archive-date=April 7, 2018 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> This has been publicly disputed by Boom and credited series writer Ian Brill. However, artist James Silvani has publicly credited Sparrow not only with the idea of bringing the series back, but assisting him in ghost-writing much of the series and changing a lot of the concepts Brill brought to the series following Sparrow's departure from BOOM! Studios. This seems to be further corroborated by the fact that Sparrow and Silvani have both stated they did not write any of the final arc of the series, "Dangerous Currency", which was largely panned by fans for having many glaring character inconsistencies, particularly in the case of the character [[Gizmoduck]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://negaverse.net/TheOldhaunt/showthread.php?tid=1890 |title="Dangerous Currency: Crossover Talkback", The Old Haunt: A Darkwing Duck forum |access-date=2011-10-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407120045/http://negaverse.net/TheOldhaunt/showthread.php?tid=1890 |archive-date=April 7, 2018 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

''Darkwing Duck'' creator Tad Stones has also publicly credited Sparrow as bringing the character back in a 2010 [[BOOM! Kids]] "Get A Sketch" panel at [[San Diego Comic-Con]]. Sparrow continues to make public appearances with Silvani and Stones, and Brill does not. In a 2011 livestream interview Tad Stones admitted he was unhappy with later issues of the series, and particularly criticized the election arc, which he "tried to talk them out of". When questioned on whether he had read the entire comic series he stated: "Not the later stuff. I applaud what James tried to do. I hear he saved them but I thought the central premises were wrong."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://negaverse.net/ChatlogLivestreamwithTadandAaron.html#criticism |title="Chatlog:Livestream with Tad Stones and Aaron Sparrow", Negaverse.net |access-date=2011-11-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106210522/http://negaverse.net/ChatlogLivestreamwithTadandAaron.html#criticism |archive-date=November 6, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Sparrow served as moderator at the 2013 Comic-Con panel "25 Years of the Disney Afternoon: The Continuing Legacy", which featured Tad Stones, voice actors Jim Cummings and Rob Paulsen, ''TaleSpin'' creator Jymn Magon, and ''Darkwing Duck'' comic artist James Silvani, associations which would seem to further corroborate his version of events.

In 2013, Disney European publisher [[Egmont Group]] released a compendium of several of the BOOM! Studios ''Darkwing Duck'' stories, including "The Duck Knight Returns", "Crisis On Infinite Darkwings", and "F.O.W.L. Disposition". Aaron Sparrow's story credits were not only restored, but he and Silvani created an all-new 3-page introduction, and Brill's dialogue was replaced with original dialogue by Sparrow.

On October 22, 2014, comic news website ''[[Bleeding Cool]]'' announced that the first 16 issues of ''Darkwing Duck'' would be packaged together and published in an omnibus by Joe Books. On his Tumblr account, Silvani stated that the omnibus would be a remastered edition, featuring revised art, a new epilogue, and that the script had been "painstakingly rewritten" by Sparrow. It was also announced that the omnibus would lead into a new monthly series written by Sparrow and drawn by Silvani, with no involvement by Brill. The omnibus only collects the first 16 issues and the annual, omitting the final "Dangerous Currency" crossover with ''DuckTales'', seeming to further call into question Brill's claims of sole authorship.

On January 18, 2016, Joe Books Twitter feed reported that ''Darkwing Duck'' would be returning to monthly comics beginning in April 2016 with Sparrow and Silvani at the helm.

According to Silvani's Twitter account, "Dangerous Currency" has been declared non-canon by Disney, and will not be referenced within the new series.