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Marco:

> when I search for <dimensione> in the title I get the story codes as
> I-TL-n-x

Per will probably be able to answer this himself, but he said he would be
away for a while. So here's my theory: Per managed to put the new
database files on his web site before he left, but he didn't change his
search program yet. As a result, the database has thousands of stories
with codes starting "I TL", but you can't search them, because the search
program still thinks "I TL" is not a proper start of a code!

--Harry.

Laurent reported:

> Favorite Penciller:
> 13 Don Rosa 16
> 19 Pat Block 12

> Favorite Inker:
> 19 Pat Block 15

> Favorite Character:
> 5 Uncle Scrooge McDuck 29

That's a shame! Apparently, not enough people were asked to vote for
Pat Block. Wouldn't it have been $well if the new Barks $tory could be
announced with the text "with artwork from the *award-winning* Pat Block"?

--Harry.

HARRY:

> My choice is still "His Majesty, McDuck", because it's so imaginative.
> Imagine someone having his house as a separate country...

I would have to agree completely. And as heretical as it may be to say, it
might be my favorite duck story of all time. The imagination thing is key. I
love sword fights, too, so an ode to the swashbucklers of times past is always
a good thing. And I like seeing the "softer" side of $crooge, as we see at the
very end of the story. It's just a great story, with witty art, new uses of
the money bin, and nice backstory. And it's why I've been begging Gladstone
and Disney to reprint it for 5 or 8 years already. I can't wait to gt my hands
on the album version of it!

-Augie
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Just when I figure I've seen every Disney duck, another waddles
into the picture to drearily confound things...
I bought a big load of Gold Key's WALT DISNEY COMICS DIGEST issues
at a yard sale today, and found a duck star I'd never seen before. "Buck
Duck", a Western hero type, headlines a solo story of his own in issue #39,
"Ghost Stage." The 12-page story has only two rows of panels per page and
a "W" in the corner of the splash panel, so this is clearly the story's
first printing.
Buck is a tall, spindly duck about Gyro's height, with baggy eyes,
Rockerduck-like wispy hair, a handlebar moustache, ten-gallon hat,
bulleteer's belt, vest, and kerchief round his neck. The resident of a
generic western town, his personal quirks are outlined quite clearly (as if
making it very clear that this was to be a series): Buck is brave but
clumsy, has an eye for ladies, a constant craving for iced tea, and his
greatest fear is of getting married. Supporting players are cowardly,
bushy-haired sheriff Chicken Duck, love interest Calamity Duck, and Spot,
Calamity's bulky horse.
Issues #35, 41, and 44, others I own from this period, have no
stories with Buck, but he does headline in #42's "Showdown in Dishwater
Gully" -- but his NAME has changed! This time he's "Buckaroo" Duck, and
while I can understand why the name would be shortened over time,
LENGTHENING it is truly bizarre... anyway, the same supporting cast
reappears here.
Has this character appeared anywhere else? In any stories with
Donald and the "traditional" characters? In some foreign stories? What is
his relationship, if any, to Disney cartoons?
Joe Torcivia? Chris Barat? Anyone?

Befuddled,
David Gerstein

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Hi all,

I have just heard the rumour that the series PENNY PINCHER was cancelled
after Number 4 by GLADSTONE themself.

My comic dealer who buys his comics from Diamond has told me so...

Could anything tell me the official version? Was there not enough
selling or whatelse would this title cancel?

Bye, Uli

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DANIEL:

> OSSI:
>
> > I just want to know.. : What is the best, absolutely BEST and the
> > greatest comic, made by Don Rosa??? My opinion is: The best comic of Don
> > Rosa is "Guardians of the Lost Library" [...] the best is G.of the L.L.!!
>
> Correction: It's "Son of the Sun"!

I'll have to agree with this. The shock of reading a story by a newcomer that
was as good as (better!) than Barks' stories, has left an indelible mark in my
mind. After finishing the story, I put down the comic book and applauded. I've
never done this with any other story.

I suspect that people who pick another story as their favorite did not
read "Son of the Sun" when it came out, and that this story was possibly not
even the first one of Don's that they read.

For a similar reason, if I had to name *two* of Don's stories as my favorites,
the second one would be "Last Sled to Dawson". This was the first comic book
story that had me crying. I never thought that reading a comic book could
affect me that way! (Since then, however, Don has managed to do it again!)
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Kriton:

> I suspect that people who pick another story as their favorite did not
> read "Son of the Sun" when it came out, and that this story was possibly not
> even the first one of Don's that they read.

Right. I learned to know Don's work with "Last Sled to Dawson". But still, that's
not my favourite ("His Majesty" is).
Maybe the order of reading really influences my opinion. I think, for instance,
that "Cash Flow" is one of Don's *worst* stories. The Beagle Boys assume the
professor doesn't recognise them, and surprise, he doesn't (that's too easy).
If the ray does stop inertia, why are the beagle boys all messed up on the
last page? Et cetera. But maybe I liked the story more if it were the 3rd one
I read.

> "Last Sled to Dawson". This was the first comic book
> story that had me crying.

The second one was probably the Lo$ episode about Scrooge's father's death.

**** (minor) spoiler ahead ****

I never cried at a Rosa story (or any comic story). But I laughed out loud
when I read the "A Little Something Special" story! People try to guess what
Scrooge *really* wants, and one person offers "a signed, numbered, "collectible"
limited-edition figurine of Cornelius Coot (What's that stench?)".

--Harry.