Keskustelujen arkisto

Daniel and the others who responded regarding Barks cartoons...Thanks for the
information! I'll pay even closer attention to old cartoons on the Toon Disney Channel
now! :-)

I now have my feathered hands on copies of Uncle Scrooge #311 and WDC&S #626. Here are my
comments, beginning with U$ 311...
****SPOILERS****
Of course, this issue harbors Don Rosa's "Last Lord of El Dorado". In a word: Wow! Rosa
has not disappointed his fans here. I, of course, was thrilled to see llamas, which are
my favorite animals (besides ducks and the occasional manatee!) :-) Aside from that, the
twists and turns and technicalities that Rosa does so well were done masterfully here.
The legal loopholes pulled in the last few pages are mind-boggling but hilarious. The
numerous references to Rosa's own "Son of the Sun" and "Treasure Under Glass" were great.
When Scrooge told Donald he sounded like "a recap caption in some silly comic book" I was
laughing so hard my family thought I had taken all leave of my senses! (Of, course,
they're right, but... :-) I also especially liked the spider from 1587! My physics
knowledge is quite meager, but the calcuations the nephews did when Donald was hanging
from the rope looked authentic to me. I know gravity is 9.8 m/sec, anyway! Math has
*never* been my strong point! We also got to see Flintheart cross-dress...twice! Tee
hee. What those ducks won't do for a buck... But Scrooge's secret knowlege of what
Flinty was doing was worth...well, a million dollars! Donald's thousand hands while
driving on that mountain were really funny, too. I always love stories set in the Andes,
and Rosa produced quite a treat this time. One minor complaint: for some reason I really
don't like the second-to-last panel where Flinty is so mad that steam is coming from his
nostrils. I don't know why. But what's one mediocre panel in such a fantastic story?

I also enjoyed "The Black Widow". For one thing, it played into my obsession with
Scrooge's romances ;-) It also showed Donald and the kids being strong and resourceful
characters. Almost so much so that they made Scrooge look weak. Stilll, nice tension and
storyline.

The Grandma Duck and Scrooge story was wonderful. I always like the interaction between
these two characters, especially when Grandma ends up getting the better of Scrooge! :-)

And to top it all off, a classic Barks tale, "Outfoxed Fox". It shows Scrooge at his most
cunning, and his scheme backfires on him with delightful irony. Two thumbs up.

Moving on to WDC&S 626....

Van Horn's "A Real Gone Guy" was a very cute story. It made the most of Gyro's oddball
inventions as plot devices, with funny results.

"Off on a Comet" was pretty good, as Mickey stories go. Poor Goofy is such a
scatterbrain! The wild impracticality of it all made for a good comic book story.

I remember Barks' "Camera Crazy" from my earliest childhood, and so have fond memories but
not much new to say about it. That bear is sooooo cute! Donald is at his best, trying a
get-rich-quick scheme but being foiled by his nephews again and again. Great stuff.

"Lambert the Sheepish Lion" was, for a stand-alone, non-duck, non-mouse comic...quite
entertaining. The art was cute, the story had meaning (although it was rather
predictable.) Enjoyable.

Regarding "The Year that was 1930" ... Did anyone else find it odd that Mickey was
running around with a gun? I mean, this is the same corporation that wouldn't let the
James boys point guns at Scrooge in Lo$, yet here their spokesmouse shoots a bird and a
lion! Granted, the results are comical, not violent, but *still*... And yes, I realize,
this is from 1930, but it still seems like a double standard. Oh well. Such is the
finicky world of publishing, I guess.

"One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing" was a nice continuation of this theme by McGreal. The
idea of these scary-looking yet peaceful dinosaurs being so misunderstood is nice to read
about, especially when one realizes they're just trying to migrate. And what a
cliffhanger!

"The Lost Fawn" was really nothing remarkable, except "The Fox and the Hound" was one of
my all-time favorite Disney films as a child, so I couldn't help but enjoy it.

****END SPOILERS****

*Phew!* That was a lot of comic to comment on! In short...happy reading!

Katie Q

Hello everybody!

I have been lurking for about a year now and just putting off my first posting to the list... Well, here it
comes!

I'm yet another young (soon 20) Finnish Disney fan and my story is similar to all the others'. I subscribed
to Aku Ankka when I was young, but because the poor quality of the stories in general, I cancelled the
subscription about five years ago. Since then, I've only bought the issues with Rosa's stories and Barks'
longer stories (now you can all guess who my favorite artists are... what a surprise ;-))

Of course, I was happily surprised when the Black Knight was published. What a story! I especially loved the
ending. Thank you, Don!

There was some discussion a few digests ago about the Swedish translation of the story. In the Finnish
version the watch on page 4, panel 7 does not have any sound effects! Could it be possible that the original
instructions for the effect were lost somehow? The Swedes then filled the space with the sound they first
came up with, and the Finnish team left it blank. By the way, why on Earth should the watch be going "zeeeeee
zeeeeee"?

The Knight doesn't say "ni" at all. He says "Mff" (if I got the panel right) :-(

--Sanna

Yesterday (as can be found in the past digest), I wrote about Jan Kruse's
script for the story "Winifred's Revenge". People who are interested, can
find it at:

http://members.xoom.com/dve/kruse_h85154.jpg

Note the differences between this and the published version, especially in
style.

Greetings,

--- Daniel

Something I just realized might not have been clear in my previous request.
Characters that *look* like Alvin and Lardy appeared regulary in JW tales,
but the instances I am seeking are when these characters are specifically
called by name (it is a very rare event in JW lore for other Woodchucks to
actually be given a name). Chuck should be a little easier to locate since
his physical appearance is rather distinctive.

For help I've posted images of the Woodchucks:
http://www.jps.net/xephyr/SCANS/woodchucks.gif

However, these are based on their appearance in "Giovani Marmotti" so they
will look only slightly different in their original appearances.

Thank you again.

-Rich (xephyr)
http://www.jps.net/xephyr/rich/disney.html

RICH:

>Alvin & Chuck were probably only
>used as "one-shots" in their American incarnation, but were adapted to
>the GM series as regulars. However, I have seen Alvin re-used in at
>least one Brazilian JW tale. Newton has appeared in several American
>JW tales (and a few Brazilian ones) of which I am aware.

Newton, Gyro's nephew also appeared in a Danish (!) story, D 4251 in
AA&Co. 78-23 (and in France MP 3). Well, it's only a gag (drawn by
Gil-Bao according to the database).

I've never seen any of the characters you mention in a French story.
There was a "Junior Woodchucks" magazine in France in the late 70s,
mostly with S-coded and W[JW]-coded stories but with no creation.

Now, some Italian GM stories have been published in the Journal de
Mickey, including a recent one by Scarpa a few weeks ago. Until now, I
though that Alvin and Chuck were Italian creations!

Concerning the Junior Woodchucks, another source of stories is the 4
pages Italian productions published in the "Manuale delle G. Marmotte"
by Carpi and others. Maybe an Italian could tell more about their
contents.

Francois

To Rich, regarding Gold Key comics...

For as long as I can remember (although I'm only 18! :-) my father and I have been trying to collect every Walt
Disney Comics and Stories comic ever made. As you can imagine, it's a rather daunting task, and even after 18
years we're a looong way from our goal. But yes, the Gold Key issues are part of that long, long run, and we
collect them as well as all the others. :-)

Katie Quackfaster

DANIEL:
(regarding my story "Pork Barrel Politics", WDC&S 622)
>Normally I don't like Donald fooling around with animals,
>but this is an exception! (Funny that using pigs, which I found a bit
>far-fetched at first, turned out to be based on reality!)
Yep. The facts are weirder than you'd ever believe... the
initial showman, John Hoare, who exhibited the most famous trained pig
around 1802, became such a superstar that he was able to ghost-write his
trained pig's autobiography and earn thousands of dollars!
This just *had* to be a Duck story...
>"ALL QUACKED UP": I've never understood why Launchpad seems so proud of
his
>image as destructive and careless pilot
Eh? Launchpad sees himself as *fearless*, but I don't think he's
actually proud of being *destructive*! (Of course, he doesn't really
think about just how destructive he *is*.) Launchpad is really one of my
favorite more-recently-created characters.
>"COUNTRY COUSIN" has very nice art. If I rembember well, the cartoon
>version has a sequence in which the countrymouse gets drunk. Has this
been
>ommited during the making of the story or this this a shorter
(censored)
>version?
Nope, the 1950s version of this comic story omitted the
drunkenness sequence as well, so this reprint hasn't been altered.

KATIE:
>Regarding "The Year that was 1930" ... Did anyone else find it odd
that Mickey was
>running around with a gun?
He had to defend himself on that island, didn't he?
In its full version, this story contains cannibals, so only
excerpts like this have ever been reprinted in authorized form in the
US. But while other excerpts have included the scene with the rifle,
this is the *first* such excerpt to include the *pistol* sequence.
The sequence was written by Walt Disney himself, so I think its
violence quotient is tastefully ignored. Of course, as I've mentioned,
this still doesn't mean that the same story's cannibal scenes are
allowed. (They have the savages giving Mickey a big banquet, then
deciding to make him into soup himself; he escapes and slowly defeats
the pursuing groups of natives, one by one.)

PER-ERIK:
>(BTW. Has one
>of Noel's latest stories, "Horsefeathers" been published by Gladstone
yet?)
Not yet. But Gladstone is using a lot of his stuff these days -
with "Off on a Comet" in this issue, and "Fishing for Trouble" and "The
Lost Train" (a two-parter) both coming up. They also have "Digging Up
Trouble" (my own collaboration with Noel) in hand, but I don't know when
or if they're planning to use it.

David Gerstein
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