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HARALD:
<< So, never fear! Rosa is read and liked by the future generations! >>

I have two 11 year old boys and a 9 year old daughter, and I read comics to
them most every night. Our favorites are Akiko, Ninjak, Untold Tales of
Spider-Man, Pakkin's Land, Patty Cake, and the ducks. Of course, they really
like the Barks stories, but it's a cause for celebration when a new Don Rosa
story comes out. They like his stories because they are packed chock full of
jokes, front and back, the adventures are genuinely scary in places, and the
art looks, I guess they describe it as "crisper." I held back the Life of
Scrooge stories until I had them all, because I knew they wouldn't be able to
hold out during the bi-monthly schedule Gladstone published them. I met Don
at Mid-Ohio Con a few years ago, and as far as I'm concerned, he's the nicest
and most talented comics creater working today. so there.

DON:

> Because they figure someone
> in Arabia might order photostats someday and they would then need to remove
> even "?"s...

Not to mention someone from Greece...

> and let the Arabians fix their own problems when that time comes, if ever.

...who will most definitely be ordering your stories. (For those who don't
know, the Greek question mark is ";". The equivalent of the semi-colon is a
period that is shifted upwards. Of course, I doubt there are many people in
Greece who don't know what "?" is, even if they don't speak a word in any
language other than Greek.)

JOHN PATRICK:
> Regarding the New Rosa Albums from Gladstone:
>
> What, no 'collectors cards'?

I'm not sure I disapprove. A few more of those cards, and I'll have to throw
out a couple of bucketfuls of Junior Woodchuck merit badges if I am to make
room for them...

(Besides, whatever value I place on those albums is because of the stories in
them, not on their being accompanied by a collector's card, whith the comic
preferably still in its shrink wrap.)
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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"You speak treason!"
"Fluently!"
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To everyone who is corresponding with me: I won't be able to read
my e-mail until May 17.

See you all in a week!
--Harry.

Everyone --

AUGIE:
You're absolutely right about the reversal of policy at Gladstone concerning
the reprinting of Barks' $crooge epics in album form. I have to admit, the
trend-reversal does annoy me. Gladstone appears to be making itself VERY
vulnerable to charges of ripoff. All that is required to defuse the
suspicions is a "decent interval" between the appearance of a $crooge story
in album form and its reappearance in comic-book form.

DON:
Actually, I was aware of your actual first name being "Keno"; it was the
unexpected appearance of it on the cover that boggled me... And that "Mickey
Mouse novelty photo" cover is indeed my least favorite among that particular
set of covers. What it's doing illustrating a book of "Uncle $crooge
Adventures," I haven't a clue.

JOHN PATRICK:
If your "Gold Key and Whitman lookalike comics" date from the early 1970's,
then this may represent Western Publishing's earliest attempt to sell comics
in bags at toy stores and department stores. There was a short period of
time in 1973 or thereabouts when the month and year seemed to disappear from
the comics indicia, as they later did during the early-to-mid-1980's, when
Western had fully committed itself to the "Whitman bag" policy. This may
have been a trial run that didn't work out at the time.

MARCO:
If you want more info on "Quack Pack," try the "QP" website at
www.disney.com. By the way, what do you mean by Becattini's "red book"? Is
that some new reference work that Becattini has recently published?

Speaking of "Quack Pack," one of the few things about the series that Disney
TV fanciers HAVE enjoyed en masse is the "recharacterization" of Daisy as a
somewhat more hip "intelligent career woman of the 90's". Daisy is
successfully "modernized" without becoming annoying. Would anyone like to
see this "new version of Daisy" appear in comic-book stories?

Christopher E. Barat
(Email removed)
Homepage http://members.aol.com/cebarat/home.htm
"I AM ARMSTRONG...I AM YOUR FRIEND." -- Armstrong the robot, "DuckTales"
episode "Armstrong"

I will be leaving the vicinity of my computer on Tuesday, and I won't be
back until May 20... although, after Hoy Murphy's last message, I'm
considering skipping my trip so as not to miss any other too-nice messages!
(By the way, Hoy -- how much was it you said you'd charge me for posting
those comments I wrote out for you?)
But, as some of you know, I'll be at EXPOCARTOON in Rome next weekend. (And
a big Hoo-hah to that!) I won't be able to answer any questions sent to me
on this List until I return, unless one of my Italian friends with a laptop
makes it possible for me to send in a "convention report" just for fun. Or
someone like Frank or Fabio might do that himself.
Well, here I go off for another week of being treated like a minor-league
movie star in Europe before I return to being an ignored guy in Kentucky
riding around on a garden-tractor mowing my grass.
Ciao.

Don made you believe that there was no secret message in the
optometricis... optimopr... eyedoctor's test chart in his
latest story "An Eye for Detail". I wouldn't say he's lying,
though the explanation why there shouldn't be any would imply
there never was, and never will be, any D.U.C.K.s, e-mail
addresses, or anything literal hidden in Don's panels.
Which is blatantly wrong, as we all know.

I believe however that Don's subconsciousness put exactly
those letters in that order on the chart, since they spell
the word "ARBEJD" - albeit upside-down, backwards and with
an extra 'H'.

The word means in Danish "(to) work", or "a job". A phrase
Don must have overheard on his phone calls to Copenhagen,
maybe even from Byron, who may have picked up this most
fundamental word in Danish. And maybe not, leaving it in.

So now you know, also consciously, what hidden messages
you have been sneaking in to spoil the children, Don.

A letter in my newspaper the other day described the
Danish postal service's falability describing how a
certain Jannick Storm had been waiting months for a
package from another certain Don Rosa, and how they
had swapped curses across the internet about it.
Apart from a sentence explaining that it dealt with
Don's alledged 'poaching' on Disney artist Carl Barks'
territory, there was no further explanation to what
this was all about, just that Don had sent his own
comics to Jannick, and how they had disappeared into
a temporal vortex (a container on the central post
administration) for months.

Since it was a letter about an altogether other topic
from Jannick, and not an article, it explains why there
were no factual errors, or even significant typos.

oLe <(Email removed)>
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I just thought I'd mention I'm back from my recent
trip to Europe. Being out of the country is why I
haven't been seen on the List lately. Actually, I've
been back for a few days, but between jet lag and
sheer sloth I've been a little slow about answering
the e-mail and so on. Anyway, it was a fun trip, and
I met up with a couple of people from the Disney Comics ML.
Didier Ghez showed me a bit of Paris, while Jacob
Sparre Anderson took me to the comic shops of
Copenhagen. I dropped by the Egmont offices and
went out to lunch with the editors, but by some comedy
of errors missed seeing Byron Erickson. Oh well...
it looks like I'll be back in Copenhagen in September,
so I can tie up any loose ends then. But as many times
as I've been to Copenhagen, I _still_ haven't seen the
Little Mermaid statue, called by some "the World's Most
Overrated Tourist Attraction, but maybe I can lay eyeballs
on it in September.

On the way to Copenhagen, I went through Hamburg, Gemrany,
where I picked up a couple of albums reprinting Don Rosa
stories. One of them includes the Peewee-Gah story that
will likely _never_ be reprinted here, so now I can see
what's so politically incorrect about it.

--Dwight Decker

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