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Quote from user: Dean Rekich...I would like to hear what others think of this news. I myself am very excited, even if my wallet and credit cards are a little upset! :) I am thrilled that Gemstone is finally publishing Barks and Rosa libraries!
My own wallet is saying "Don't even THINK about it". As for my credit cards, the really useful ones are dead and buried. :P

That's great news though, and I am hoping Amazon will come through on those titles pretty soon. :)

The Carl Barks Collection Box 1 is still available for preorder at Amazon Germany:

Delivery date November, 2008.
Price tag: EUR 107.

Sounds great. But is it true? I hope so :)!!

If Gemstone hasn't mentioned anything about The Carl Barks or Don Rosa Libraries. The closest thing they have to them are The Barks and Rosa Libraries with original stories by Barks and the sequels by Rosa which are published back to back.

I'm also waiting for the Barks/Rosa Collection #3 and #4. I already preordered them at Amazon :) The first ones are really great. Great stories! And I find the comments by Rosa very interessting.

Well, back on the first page of this thread David's comments didn't exactly fill me with optimism, Robb. I hope you're right of course.
Quote from user: "Ramapith"...things are pretty durn tentative. Our distribution arm asks us to submit our information for Amazon??? and other online retailers??? nearly a year in advance. So these early plans are often subject to change.

The "subject to change", sounds more to me like postponement of release, or change in quality, rather than cancellation of the whole proposed project. If Gemstone has decided not to go through with publishing a Carl Barks Collection, they would likely announce that, as people may have already gotten on a list for ordering it, and need to know whether it will be published or not. I would ALWAYS be ready for publishing delays, but not be overly worried that the project will be completely cancelled.

Quote from user: Charlie BrownI think, I would also buy a black and white Barks Collection like the one from Another Rainbow. I think quality comes before color.
I've always considered color an inseparable?and therefore essential?part of the comic experience. I could not enjoy a story that's black line art?no matter how artistic the line or famous the artist. The addition of color is so much more aesthetic than plain black lines?but I suspect that's subjective. Less subjective is the fact that the human eye is designed to transmit color to the brain, and the brain functions to make decisions about the world based on color. It's confusing and taxing to the brain?at least MY brain?to be made to decipher a pattern of similar black scribbles without the relief of color to make the image more understandable, familiar and comfortable.

I could never read through the Another Rainbow volumes of black ink. I would require a padded room thereafter?and I'm not referring to their exorbitant price. The actual comics for which the drawings were designed are so much more enjoyable.

So I think as far as I'm concerned, the pencil art and the inking is but the beginning of the completed quality product. A diamond is but a rock until it is processed into a gem.