JUST OUT
"Phantomias" #1 - a new German monthly comic-book by Ehapa/Egmont.
It's US-Comic-Book size (= higher and smaller than normal German
comic-books) and comes at a time, when, after more than a decade
without superhero-books around here, they slowly start to appear
again.
I have mixed feelings about this: the art (besides the characters)
looks 1:1 like US-superhero-stuff (even like "Image", I'd say), and
Duckburgh is "futuristic and high-tech" as the press-text says.
Donalds car even flies...
On the other hand: the "Disney"- and "Donald"-feeling is right in
place, he speaks and acts as Donald, and so does Scrooge... Hm, I
think I have to wait and see.
BTW this weeks "Micky Maus" features the Donald/Mickey cross-over
with the amulett we talked about a short time ago (divided of
course...)
OFF-TOPIC (more or less)
Some weeks before the European start I'd like to ask:
How's the "Hunchback"-movie?
Like "Ariel", which worked fine?
Like "Beauty and the Beast", which kinda worked?
Like "Aladdin", which worked as an action-movie, not musical?
Like "Lion King", which worked perfectly?
Or like "Pocahontas", which didn't work?
My point is: does Disney repeat their old mistake, trying to do
realistic humans? Cartoony humans and _animals_ always worked greatly
with the Disney-animation stile and story-telling. Realistic humans
didn't. And thinking of the already known future projects I fear
they'll get stuck on with just that...
Harald
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Topic: 199609
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Harald Havas
Super-Duck strikes! Hunchback in awe?
Message 376 -
1996-09-30 at 15:46:40
Deckerd
"bats in the belfry,"
Message 377 -
1996-09-30 at 19:28:57
On Sep 25, 12:15am, Christer Hanssen wrote:
> Subject: "bats in the belfry,"
> DWIGHT:
>
> >got a copy of a Danish comic (a supplement to the Anders
> >And of a few weeks back) that has a cover that's a blatantly
> >obvious illustration of the Americanism "bats in the belfry,"
> >but the title/caption was something else because (I assume)
> >the expression doesn't exist in Danish.
> I guess your right, because I don't recon the expression. The
norwegian
> title says something like: "Fluttering danger". This is the cover of
the Van
> Horn extra, with only stories of Van Horn, right?
Yep, that's the one. The expression, saying somebody has
"bats in the belfry," is a colorful way of saying the
person is crazy. "Belfry" is a somewhat uncommon word
meaning the tower or cupola on top of a building (like a
church or school) housing a bell. I'd guess that the
expression "bats in the belfry" is the only thing keeping
the word "belfry" from sliding into the obsolete category
completely, since belfries themselves are pretty much
obsolete as architecture goes. I'm merely speculating,
of course. The next question is how this fits in with
the van Horn story, which I haven't read. My guess is
that he wouldn't have drawn bats in a belfry unless he
had the expression in mind.
--Dwight Decker
> Subject: "bats in the belfry,"
> DWIGHT:
>
> >got a copy of a Danish comic (a supplement to the Anders
> >And of a few weeks back) that has a cover that's a blatantly
> >obvious illustration of the Americanism "bats in the belfry,"
> >but the title/caption was something else because (I assume)
> >the expression doesn't exist in Danish.
> I guess your right, because I don't recon the expression. The
norwegian
> title says something like: "Fluttering danger". This is the cover of
the Van
> Horn extra, with only stories of Van Horn, right?
Yep, that's the one. The expression, saying somebody has
"bats in the belfry," is a colorful way of saying the
person is crazy. "Belfry" is a somewhat uncommon word
meaning the tower or cupola on top of a building (like a
church or school) housing a bell. I'd guess that the
expression "bats in the belfry" is the only thing keeping
the word "belfry" from sliding into the obsolete category
completely, since belfries themselves are pretty much
obsolete as architecture goes. I'm merely speculating,
of course. The next question is how this fits in with
the van Horn story, which I haven't read. My guess is
that he wouldn't have drawn bats in a belfry unless he
had the expression in mind.
--Dwight Decker
Markoff
Digest V96 #212--Holland and WDC&S 609
Message 378 -
1996-09-30 at 21:31:16
HARRY:
You mentioned once on the list that the Dutch album of "Lo$" had a text page
that even went so far as to explain a previous translation of a CB story had
been in error. What was that, specifically?
>WDC&S #609
>"The Once and Future Duck (Part 3/3)" by Don Rosa
Are "The Once and Future Duck," "Stranded in Time," and "A Calisota Yankee
in King Arthur's Court" all different titles for the same story?
You mentioned once on the list that the Dutch album of "Lo$" had a text page
that even went so far as to explain a previous translation of a CB story had
been in error. What was that, specifically?
>WDC&S #609
>"The Once and Future Duck (Part 3/3)" by Don Rosa
Are "The Once and Future Duck," "Stranded in Time," and "A Calisota Yankee
in King Arthur's Court" all different titles for the same story?