Dawn of the Day of the Return of the Living Spud

"" is a two-part comic story that was published in the last two issues of Joe Books' Darkwing Duck comic book. The story serves as not only a sequel to the TV episode "Night of the Living Spud", but also to Bushroot's origin episode "Beauty and the Beet".
Due to Disney's cancellation of the comic series, and replacing the comic's creative team for the next Darkwing Duck comic by Dynamite Entertainment, this story is notably the last canon installment of the original, non-rebooted "Disney Afternoon universe" as of .
==Summary==
St. Canard is in a spook-tacular mess when the Bride of Bushroot makes her move on a dark and stormy night: law-abiding citizens have been turned into shambling mind-controlled maniacs! DW swings into action, but to avert the apocalypse, he'll need help from a certain youngster with hours of scary movies under her belt. In the midst of it all, Darkwing and Bushroot are forced to team up, and are in for a shock when they discover who's the mastermind behind it all!
==Notes==
*Issue #7, in which part 1 was printed, was originally announced to be released in October 2016 (hence why the story opens on Halloween night), but numerous delays resulted in the issue not coming out until the following January.
*Issue #8 was originally planned to feature a remake of the storybook Darkwing Duck: High Wave Robbery, but it was pushed aside due to issue #7's story becoming too big for a single issue. Bizarrely, the issue's solicitation on PreviewsWorld.com was never updated accordingly.
*This story marks Dean Tightbill and Doctors Gary and Larson's only appearance in the comics medium, and Neptunia's first and only canon comic book appearance since the 1992 comic adaptation of "Just Us Justice Ducks" (she would reappear in the later non-canon Darkwing comic series by Dynamite Entertainment).
*Due to the series' cancellation, this story also marks the only appearance of the "Quack 2" Gizmosuit.
*Throughout the second half of the story, there are single-page and single-panel intervals that cut away from the main plot to foreshadow other plot developments, including the disappearance of the CrimeBots, Quackerjack (who has somehow been resurrected after seemingly turning himself into a doll at the end of "Toy With Me") plotting to wreak havoc on St. Canard's toy expo, and Negaduck showing interest in the comic book in which Splatter Phoenix was imprisoned at the end of issue #6's "St. Canard Comic Expo Fest-o-Rama (Now With Some Comics)". Morgana Macawber's disappearance (which happened at the end of "F.O.W.L. Disposition") is also briefly touched upon here. Unfortunately, due to Disney cancelling the comic and firing Aaron Sparrow and James Silvani from working on the next Darkwing Duck comic, these storylines will likely never be followed up on.
==External links==
*Darkwing Duck Wiki: 
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