- “My clock is running fine, but your time is running out!”
- ―Chronoduck[src]
Sprungston Waddlespin III, better known by his supervillain name Chronoduck, is a villain featured in the Darkwing Duck comic books published by Boom! Studios and Joe Books. He debuted in the story "The Untimely Terror of the Time Turtle", written by Darkwing creator Tad Stones and originally published in Boom!'s Darkwing Duck Annual #1.
Appearances[]
In his debut story, Sprungston Waddlespin III appears at the pet store that Drake Mallard and his daughter Gosalyn happen to be shopping at. When Drake recommends a box turtle to Gosalyn, Waddlespin attempts to steal it from them, but before he can, the turtle briefly teleports Gosalyn ahead a few hours in time to the St. Canard Clocktower, where she sees Darkwing attempting to stop a villain named Chronoduck, only to end up falling to his death. When Gosalyn is brought back to the present, Waddlespin snatches the turtle away from her, revealing to her and Drake that "this turtle is slow enough to crawl between seconds and into the chronoplasm of time." Darkwing attempts to stop Waddlespin, but he uses the Time Turtle to teleport and then reappear, now in his clock-themed supervillain costume and calling himself Chronoduck. Darkwing chases the villain to the St. Canard Clocktower, despite Gosalyn begging him not to do so, and attempts to ambush Chronoduck, only to miss and fall off the railing like the Time Turtle showed Gosalyn earlier. However, a "Pack the Bungee" warning that Gosalyn found written on the Time Turtle, Gosalyn throws a bungee cord to her dad, allowing him to spring back up and clobber Chronoduck.
Chronoduck reappeared in "Orange is the New Purple", the opening three-issue arc of the Joe Books Darkwing series, as one of the inmates in St. Canard's new maximum security prison. After trapping Darkwing (and, unbeknownst to him at the time, Gosalyn) inside the prison, Negaduck releases Chronoduck and the other villains from their cells. Using Chronoduck's literal clock-face for reference, Negaduck gives Darkwing thirty minutes to hide before he sics the villains on him; however, Negaduck unleashes the villains after only twenty minutes have passed. Chronoduck is later seen watching Darkwing's escape attempts on the surveillance monitors with Tuskerninni, questioning the primadonna walrus's plan to make a movie out of Darkwing's demise in the camera footage.
References[]
- ↑ Chronoduck's profile in Darkwing Duck (Joe Books) #6
