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Many digests ago, David wrote:
> H86249 "A Fish in the Desert" by Mau Heymans:
> [...] there were pages and pages of the ducks wandering
> around in the desert without any very funny gags or
> personality-building moments. Do you agree, Harry?

Yes, I agree. This story is one of the long stories Heymans
drew at the time. Those stories were very sloooow. I suspected
it was an easy way to fill a 10- or 11-page story. Unfortunately,
I don't know who wrote the story, but I'd say it was Jan Kruse.

Of course, Barks also had a few stories where the Ducks wander
around in a desolate landscape for pages, but they are... wel...
somehow different.

Heymans does a much better job with the short (4 or 5 page)
stories, as Americans can see in the few Gladstone reprints.

BTW (= By the way), Mau usually doesn't ink his own stories.
The inking is done by his brother Bas Heymans or by Jaap
Stavenuiter. Since the "desert" story was quite an early one,
maybe it *was* inked by Mau himself, and maybe that's why
it looks much more "Barks" than his later stories.

David also wrote:
> Still, DDA 37 will contain a good Shelly/Pat Block story and
> John told me that, as he remembered it, one of your translations
> behind it, Dwight.

Could this be a Heymans story as well? It seems Dwight translates
all the Heymans stories. (Which I quite like, BTW.)

--Harry.

Hi!

Normally I don't quite like Italian stories! There are some
exceptions like that Money Sea-story. I also liked THIS story, "Colossus
Of The Nile". The translation is very good. I wonder who made the
American script, but that person sure did some nice work! ;-)
On the fourth page Scrooge says: "That moving job's enough to
BANKRUPT a nation! It's not like I own the treasury of Croesus! Er--
well, I DO! But that's beside the point!". David, did you write this to make
a reference to Don's story, or was it in the original script?
All in all, I liked this issue. Especially because it has a
Rosa-cover! Well, only the little Scrooge in the white box is by Rosa!
(It's from that drawing with the three paintings, right?) The rest of the
cover is kind of strange though. Shouldn't there be a river in front of the
statue where Scrooge, Donald and the boys are walking?

C'ya,

Arthur

Uncle $crooge Adventures #37:

Thanks to David and Fabio! Very well done job.
The script is better than the 'Lentils' one.

Scarpa's art works surprisingly well in this larger format.
And of course the coloring is superb compared to Italian
colors.

HUOMIO!
Does anyone remember the number of the FINNISH pocketbook
this story was in? I'm not even 100% sure if this story is
printed in Finland but it looks familiar.
My pocketbook collection is not complete, so I'm not sure
if I want go and seek after something I don't have, but I
guess I have to anyway (In order to make more specific
comments about the script.)

NON DISNEY CONTENT:

About Superman:

Keep in mind that I didn't start this thread, but...

Don't get me wrong, I really love the REALLY old Supes--, err,
sorry, I mean Superman stories. But before the Byrne takeover
the books were real shame to carry the name of Superman.

In other words: The stories were boring, Superman was too powerful,
Clark Kent was working for TV-company, Lois Lane was just a 'bimbo',
Lex Luthor was ridiculous as were most of the other 'villains'.

I like Curt Swan's artwork, but the character of the Superman
was way off. I remember that when I was reading that Alan Moore
written story (actually the Finnish reprint of it), I was really
happy that the next issue was made by John Byrne himself.

John did SUPERb job. His stories were (and still are) amazing.
Really classic Silver-Age stuff in the vein of Jack 'King' Kirby.
Great to read, fun adventures, good solid art.
He really took the books to a whole new level with 'new' villains
and with such classics as New Gods, The Phantom Stranger and Demon.
And, after Byrne, the Superman readers figured out that women had
brains too.

Of course, after Byrne left the quality dropped faster than
Gladstone's press-runs!

I would like to compare Byrne's work on Superman (and other
titles too) to Don Rosa's work on Disney characters, because:

- Byrne and Rosa are my current storyteller favorites
- Both use their own creativity and style mixed with old
classic concepts
- They are not 'copycats' - their style is really their own style
- Like Rosa with Barks, Byrne had his own 'difficulties' when
doing sequel to Kirby's OMAC.
- ...

Well, enough is enough. Please, reply with personal Email!!!

/Mikko

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End of dcomics Digest V96 Issue #16
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DON:
Imho, the cormorants were very well used in giving the story
some feel of unitedness.
And the glasses on the $crooge banks are removable. He looks
pretty stupid without them, btw :) Okay, I'll send you the glasses.
Do you still live on 9711 Dawson Hill Road?

MIKKO:
Could you describe the story in U$A#37, please. I should be able
to tell you if it has been published. (although many of the pocket-book
stories are quite hard to distinguish..)

DAVID:
How long does it take you to make one script, say 10 pages long? Do
you use much time afterwards polishing it and stuff? How fast do you get
paid for it? How long a time does it take before they print it? What's the
Egmont (or do you work for Gladstone?) pay per a page of script?

--

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Hi!

DAVID:
So you did, kind of, write that text about the treasury of Croeses
with a reference to Don's story? That's neat. It's a shame that Don's
story hasn't been printed in it's totality yet. But, in a way, you gave
away the fact that Scrooge WILL find the treasury, even when noone
knew he would find it, as everyone was eagerly awaiting the second
chapter of Don's story. Now every knows Scrooge will find the treasure.
Or doesn't he?!? ;-)
You have been writing and translating quite a lot of stories already.
Since when are you doing that? It must be great to know that thousands of
people will read your stories and read the text you wrote. Me and Daniel are
working on a Duck-story ourselves, but we're stuck right now.
Now that I'm talking about this. I recently got a message about
the Dutch publishers looking for good scripts, as they are running out of
scripts. Harry told me they probable need short stories in stead of long
adventure stories but we're not sure.
Why doesn't Gladstone 'make' their own stories anymore, as they
did in the first period before Disney Comics? They now only reprint
stories. (Another one of my dumb questions!)

ALL:
Some time ago someone asked me for Barks-postcards. I can't
remember who did though!

C'ya,

Arthur

> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:03:38 +0200
> From: (Email removed) (Mike Pohjola)
> First of all, I think we should create our very own comic character,
> who could be the symbol and 'the star' of our WWW pages. "Walt the Walrose"
> or "Dismey Disney" or sumpin..

Characters we could use: Gyro's helper, Yen Sid, Ludwig Van Drake, Merlin,
Tinkerbell (as a cursor arrow. Take the wand action she does at the end
of the Wonderful World of Disney television show and link it with mouse
button clicks. Add the crocodile from Peter Pan to visualize processing
time.), Aladdin's Genie, Owl.

> I was reading a comics catalogue here, and there was written that
> a Bone comic story was published in a Disney comic. Is this true?-o

Disney Adventures digest, American edition, circa late 1993, early 1994.

Even though digest sized, the comics section is excellent. There are the
"Modern Age" (Goof Troop, Aladdin, Darkwing Duck) Disney characters, as
well as licensed properties (Gargoyles), and stories done by non-Disney
comics professionals (Jeff Smith, Evan Dorkin) which are quite good.

Is there a British edition of Disney Adventures? I have seen the
Australian/New Zealand edition, which has a slightly different comics
section.

Torsten Adair (Email removed) Washington, DC, USA