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I'm about a quarter of the way through mine and enjoying it, as expected.
Like the short stories being spread throughout th book, agree that covers before the stories could be a nic touch. Noticed the slightly thinner paper, and a previous poster mentioned, didn't think it was a huge deal.
Would prefer the commentaries accompany the stories for which they were written. Find myself flipping to the back after each story to read the commentary.

Quote from user: DebbieIs it just me, or does Fantagraphics seem to be pushing the Gottfredson volumes a bit more than the Barks books? The Mickey Mouse series seems to get more publicity than the Donald and Scrooge books. Or is it maybe that Gottfredson's work is just less familiar to most readers, and is having a bigger impact?
Not just you--the Gottfredson volumes do indeed seem to be more visible. As you say, I think it's a matter of familiarity more than anything else. Let's face it: I already own almost everything Barks, often in multiple printings. Whereas a non-trivial amount of the Gottfredson has never been reprinted in the US, and even when it has, never as well as it is here.

I have both Lost in the Andes and Only a Poor Old Man. I'm very pleased by the changes made in Only a Poor Old Man, putting the stories in order rather than the absolutely baffling choices made for Lost in the Andes, but I'm still sad that the collection is being separated by Scrooge and Donald rather than by strict chronology. It's too late to change it now, I guess, but the volumes are still fairly high quality reprints and the image quality seems great. It would be really nice if the covers for each issue were recolored and not just bonus features in the back, but that's a fairly minor point. I love much about the volumes and it's great that I can introduce my cousins to Barks with this. I'll probably buy the Another Rainbow set someday, way way in the future, but I'll definitely keep on collecting these Fantagraphics reprints.
However... I will say there's absolutely no excuse for the terrible coloring decisions. The final results look plain awful and I sincerely hope that they change it in later volumes.
The new colorist did fine considering he was working off of the originals, I don't blame him in the slightest for his execution, but I do blame the editors. For them to say that they have no other reference for colors is just a flat-out lie. Just look at the paintings and you'll see at least SOME sense of the colors Barks had in mind, outside the obvious artistic license he took by making the coins in the bin gold. Why this bizarre sense of fidelity to comics that were not well colored to begin with, and colored with the intent of being printed in the old dot-style?
Common sense would dictate a uniform color design, as has been the standard for... well, forever. Which is why I am really stumped that the colors are amazingly inconsistent from story to story as a whole, but with the characters especially. I understand a certain level of adherence to the original comics, I suppose, but this doesn't make any sense to me at all. A lot of these decisions seem like the ones where they keep the Terry-Fermites multi-colored. It's pretty clearly misunderstanding the original story's text and intent. I can't comment on the much discussed yellows, but I do notice them used in totally inappropriate places like the <b>sky</b>. That's kind of distracting. And stupid.
But you know what's worse? I am looking at Lost in the Andes' cover right now, and I'm going to list every single coloring mistake I can see that they purposefully left in to match the original comic. It was blown up from a single panel, and this is the image they used to start their collection... and they admitted that they did it wrong on purpose. I will say I have no opinion as to removing the sky from the cover though. I guess.
#1: My only complaint for the top third is not coloring in the rock of the mountain. I suppose this is no different than if they did, since it's colored like gold in the actual panel it's lifted from (Page 31).
#2: Donald's outfit has white buttons and trim, which doesn't track with the painting Barks did of Lost in the Andes that could easily be used as a coloring guide. That may be more a personal pet peeve of mine.
#3: Dewey's cap is the only one colored, which makes even less sense considering he has the least color showing!
#4: Brown grass beneath the Ducks' feet. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't in the exact same panel as green grass.
#5: Yellow rope, probably because making it brown wouldn't contrast against brown grass.
#6: Green stones in the wall. Not even moss-covered stones, really, just green ones.
I did hear that there were no plans to include Horsing Around With History, King Scrooge the First, or the Junior Woodchucks stuff. That's really a shame, that seems like it would be a very cool volume (or I suppose to some, though I suppose to some it's an appendix *rimshot*) to cap off the series.
Anyway. That's all I have to say about that.

Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderNo color was used in the AR Barks Library (and now also in the FB Gottfredson Library). It makes the artwork look better, because there are no colors to distract you. However, it takes away part of the atmosphere in my opinion.
Not in the case of the Gottfredson books. Those daily newspaper strips were meant to be read in black & white, so the atmosphere you get from reading them without color is the atmosphere Gottfredson intended.

Quote from user: Review Or DieFurther, to people who object to 'changing' the old comics... there is absolutely no difference in principle to having a new coloring versus the old coloring. Barks didn't color them. Someone else did, and I've never heard a kind word from Barks on the end result.
Not about the original coloring, perhaps, but Barks did actually state he liked the coloring of the Carl Barks Library in Color.

Quote from user: Review Or DieI did hear that there were no plans to include Horsing Around With History, King Scrooge the First, or the Junior Woodchucks stuff.
I don't know about the Junior Woodchucks stories, but to leave out "King Scrooge the First", the Vicar comic version of "Go Slowly, Sands of Time" and "Horsing Around With History" would, in my opinion, be a mistake. To me, they are all a part of Barks' Uncle Scrooge cannon. I hope they reconsider, and include the original printing drawn by Tony Strobl, or the redrawn version by Daan Jippes (or even both versions, although that might turn off casual readers).

Quote from user: Review or DieI did hear that there were no plans to include Horsing Around With History, King Scrooge the First, or the Junior Woodchucks stuff. That's really a shame, that seems like it would be a very cool volume (or I suppose to some, though I suppose to some it's an appendix *rimshot*) to cap off the series.
Citation needed? That would indeed be a huge shame, especially as some of the Woodchucks stuff has never been reprinted in the US. Don't screw this up, Fantagraphics!