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Even the melancholically gifted singers of Portugal are
now honouring Don Rosa with their artistry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X00U6aKHGLU

Nils Lid Hjort

> *which Duck or Disney Comics stories have had
> The World (as we know it) May Actually Be Ending
> as its theme*?

The first one that pops up my mind is "Zio Paperone e il tuffo nel
black-hole" ( http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TL+1327-AP ) by Pezzin
and Scala, where the ducks (spoiler) have to stop the Earth running
toward a black hole...

Then a Mickey and Pluto one "Topolino e il campione terrestre" (
http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TL+2135-1 ) where Pluto defeats some
aliens arrived to (guess what?) conquer our planet.

Surely there are more... but while we're at it, I'd like to wish you
all DCMLers a great holiday season, whatever you're interested in:
Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Kwanzaa!

Cheers!

- Paolo

http://www.papersera.net

I wrote a Mickey story where he had to push an asteroid just enough to keep
it from hitting earth. I was trying to plant the seed that blowing up a
similar object could be disastrous and wasn't even necessary.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:33 AM, <nils at math.uio.no> wrote:

>
> As we all know by now the world is ending on this very day,
> which may or may not make us just a little bit thoughtful.
> At any rate it makes me just sufficiently thoughtful &
> hence curious to ask this educated forum about
> *which Duck or Disney Comics stories have had
> The World (as we know it) May Actually Be Ending
> as its theme*? As in "unless we ducks fix this pretty
> damn quickly events A and B and then C are bound
> to happen and then the planet collapses", or likewise?
>
> I can recall just a few stories which with a bit of a stretch
> might qualify, but I'm sure there are more. One coming
> to mind is Uncle Scrooge #13, with the terries and the
> fermies, scary enough for a sensitive mind (yes, I *did*
> put in "with a bit of a stretch"). But perhaps Rosa's
> Black Knight glorping ahead with the Universal Solvent
> is closer to creating a threatening scenario where things
> could actually go Very Wrong for the full planet.
>
> Others? Global wars, anyone? Environmetrics & heated
> atmospheres, pollution, world dominance? Has Brutopia
> ever tried to be very actively imperialistic, or are they
> mostly content with being strange and exploiting
> their home masses at home?
>
> Nils Lid Hjort
>
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NILS LID HJORT, 21-12-2012:

> *which Duck or Disney Comics stories have had
> The World (as we know it) May Actually Be Ending
> as its theme*? [...]
> I can recall just a few stories which with a bit of a
> stretch might qualify, but I'm sure there are more.
> One coming to mind is Uncle Scrooge #13, with the
> terries and the fermies, scary enough for a sensitive
> mind (yes, I *did* put in "with a bit of a stretch").

The Terries and Fermies are mostly a threat to Duckburg.
Duckburg isn't the entire world. :)

> But perhaps Rosa's Black Knight glorping ahead with
> the Universal Solvent is closer to creating a threatening
> scenario where things could actually go Very Wrong for
> the full planet.

In the original Pertwillaby story, the solvent is a threat for the entire
Earth. The solvent sucks away the air. This is not or less the case in the
Disney version.
The Black Knight, in the Disney version, isn't destroying the entire world.
And he would need a lot of time to do that, if it was his intention.
Destroying parts of Duckburg already takes him a lot of time and energy. And
he can be stopped with material made of diamonds, if I remember well.

> Others? Global wars, anyone? Environmetrics & heated
> atmospheres, pollution, world dominance? Has Brutopia
> ever tried to be very actively imperialistic, or are they
> mostly content with being strange and exploiting
> their home masses at home?

There are many stories in which aliens threaten to take over the Earth. At
least, that would be the end of the world as we know it. :)

Best wishes and happy holidays,
Dani?l

Happy holidays, everyone!

Nils, I have not checked in the story, but the ball of Universal Solvent's
glorping of the Earth's core certainly affected the whole planet; besides
taking it back up in a diamond jar, the ducks don't do anything to mend the
Earth-- though, just like the Money Bin is always repaired in-between
stories depicting its destruction, sone imagines that Gyro mends the Earth
somehow in-between stories (backstage, so to speak).

I stopped buying Mickey Parade regularly in 1988 (I had no idea it had been
so long); fortunately, the last issue (December 1988:
http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=fr%2FMP++108) had good stories.
The first one ("Paperino e il Natale... spaziale", by Massimo Marconi &
Romano Scarpa-- http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+1569-C) involved
saving the Earth from being blown up by extra-terrestrials to celebrate
their Emperor's birthday.

Olivier

On 2012-12-26, nils at math.uio.no wrote:

> Elon V. Brisola posted:
>
>> Nils is joking, folks.
>> Back to lurking.
>>
>> Elon (from Brazil, a Portuguese speaker)
>>
>> On 21/12/2012 14:16, nils at math.uio.no wrote:
>>> Even the melancholically gifted singers of Portugal are
>>> now honouring Don Rosa with their artistry:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X00U6aKHGLU
>>>
>>> Nils Lid Hjort
>
> Indeed I was, and gently so -- but (1) I quite liked this
> fado and (2) at any rate Rui Maricato tells me that
> Disney Comics is now back in business in Portugal,
> with both a weekly and a monthly magazine, after
> a six years hiatus. So perhaps Don's popularity
> *is* growing in Portugal, after all.

Hmm.... just curious: do you happen to know who is publishing the new
magazines? Still Edimpresa (formerly Abril/ControlJornal), or some other
publisher?

--
Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/