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Quote from user: OlivierSpeaking of creating characters, I like Arpin Lusène / The Black Knight a lot; he is quite different from the other adversaries (more specifically, thieves)--
Should Arpin Lusène stay The Black Knight, using Omnisolve?
Magica and the Beagle Boys use different, surprising ways in getting Scrooge's money.

Quote from user: BenceQuote from user: Daniel73For example, 'A Letter From Home' mismatches 'Life of $crooge'. In Lo$ 9, 'The Billionaire of Dismal Downs', Scrooge left with his sisters. In 'A Letter From Home' his sisters stayed with his father.
Yes, but not after Lo$ 9! His sisters stayed with his father until 1902.
Then why is Scrooge asking his sister about his father's pride, if she left with Scrooge at the same time? Shortly after Scrooge has been told personally by his father (in Lo$) that he (the father) is proud of him?

Quote from user: PaperOleOne story we're still waiting for from Rosa's hand is the "Secret Origins" story of Huey, Dewey and Louie. A deleted pencils page from his Xanadu story (published in Uncle Scrooge #357) mysteriously hints at how the high llama has information pertaining to it. Does anyone know more?
Don Rosa on DCML, 1 November 1996, about the parents of Huey, Dewey and Louie:
As for doing a story where $crooge's long-lost sisters return, or where HD&L's parents are found... I suggested $crooge's sisters as the focus of the $crooge 50th Anniversary story that, in fact, I expect to finish pencilling TODAY... but Byron nixed that idea for various good reasons. I'm sure I'll get to that one someday. As for HD&L's parents, we've thought about that for 9 years, but I don't think we'll ever mess with it since there is no possible happy or even satisfying UNhappy ending that it can have. (And it seems like I mentioned this just a week or two ago...) A) They are found and HD&L go to live with them and leave Unca Donald -- sad. B) They are found and HD&L decide to disown them or something so they can stay with Unca Donald -- sad and weird. C) They are found after 60n years and then lost again -- very sad! D) They are found DEAD -- rilly, rilly sad! E) They aren't found at all -- so whatsa point? Maybe I'll think of an F or a G someday and think about it again, but I doubt it. It's like me trying to write the story of how $crooge died in 1967... I'd never attempt it since I'd never be happy with the results.

Don Rosa op DCML, 7 November 1996, about the parents of Huey, Dewey and Louie:
No, I'll keep my story ideas for HD&L's parents secret for two reasons. 1) I may still do that story someday. 2) I suspect my idea for that story is a real stinker and I *like* to keep such things secret!

Quote from user: Daniel73Quote from user: OlivierSpeaking of creating characters, I like Arpin Lusène / The Black Knight a lot; he is quite different from the other adversaries (more specifically, thieves)--
Should Arpin Lusène stay The Black Knight, using Omnisolve?
Magica and the Beagle Boys use different, surprising ways in getting Scrooge's money.

Quote from user: BenceQuote from user: Daniel73For example, 'A Letter From Home' mismatches 'Life of $crooge'. In Lo$ 9, 'The Billionaire of Dismal Downs', Scrooge left with his sisters. In 'A Letter From Home' his sisters stayed with his father.
Yes, but not after Lo$ 9! His sisters stayed with his father until 1902.
Then why is Scrooge asking his sister about his father's pride, if she left with Scrooge at the same time? Shortly after Scrooge has been told personally by his father (in Lo$) that he (the father) is proud of him?

Quote from user: PaperOleOne story we're still waiting for from Rosa's hand is the "Secret Origins" story of Huey, Dewey and Louie. A deleted pencils page from his Xanadu story (published in Uncle Scrooge #357) mysteriously hints at how the high llama has information pertaining to it. Does anyone know more?
Don Rosa on DCML, 1 November 1996, about the parents of Huey, Dewey and Louie:
As for doing a story where $crooge's long-lost sisters return, or where HD&L's parents are found... I suggested $crooge's sisters as the focus of the $crooge 50th Anniversary story that, in fact, I expect to finish pencilling TODAY... but Byron nixed that idea for various good reasons. I'm sure I'll get to that one someday. As for HD&L's parents, we've thought about that for 9 years, but I don't think we'll ever mess with it since there is no possible happy or even satisfying UNhappy ending that it can have. (And it seems like I mentioned this just a week or two ago...) A) They are found and HD&L go to live with them and leave Unca Donald -- sad. B) They are found and HD&L decide to disown them or something so they can stay with Unca Donald -- sad and weird. C) They are found after 60n years and then lost again -- very sad! D) They are found DEAD -- rilly, rilly sad! E) They aren't found at all -- so whatsa point? Maybe I'll think of an F or a G someday and think about it again, but I doubt it. It's like me trying to write the story of how $crooge died in 1967... I'd never attempt it since I'd never be happy with the results.

Don Rosa op DCML, 7 November 1996, about the parents of Huey, Dewey and Louie:
No, I'll keep my story ideas for HD&L's parents secret for two reasons. 1) I may still do that story someday. 2) I suspect my idea for that story is a real stinker and I *like* to keep such things secret!
There is NO CHANCE that any of The Disney publishers would allow us to create stories in which Huey's, Dewey's and Louie's parents return. They've already existed 69 years without them.

I hope Don Rosa doesn't retire he writes good stories. As for A Letter from Home Story Maybe Matilda was referring to before Scrooge came back to Scotland in 1902.

That's what I said in my last statement Sigvald.

Here's a list of the stories that Don Rosa made for the Disney Comic Books.

Son of the Sun
Nobody's Business
Mythological Menagerie
Recalled Wreck
Cash Flow
Fit to be Pied
Fir Tree Fracas
Oolated Luck
Last Sled to Dawson
Rocket Reveire
Paper Chase
Metaphorically Spanking
Fiscal Fitness
Well Educated Duck
The Crocodile Collector
Fortune on the Rocks
Return to Plain Awful
The Curse of Nostrildamus
His Majesty McDuck
Leaky Luck
Give Unto Others
Forget Me Not
On a Silver Platter
The Pied Piper of Duckburg
Back in Time for a Dime
The Money Pit
Return to Xanadu
Treasure Under Glass
The Master Landscapist
On Stolen Time
Incident at McDuck Tower
Super Snooper Strikes Again
Island at the Edge of Time
The Duck Who Fell to Earth
From Duckburg to Lilehammer
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 1: The Last of the Clan McDuck
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 2: The Master of the Mississippi
Guardians of the Lost Library
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 3: The Buckaroo of the Badlands
The Duck Who Never Was
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 4: The Raider of the Copper Hill
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 5: The New Laird of the Castle McDuck
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 6: The Terror of the Transvaal
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 7: The Dreamtime Duck of the Never Never
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 8: The King of the Klondike
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 9: The Billionaire of Dismal Downs
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 8C: Hearts of the Yukon
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 10: The Invader of Fort Duckburg
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 11: The Empire Builder from Calisota
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 12: The Richest Duck in the World
The Treasury of Curoesis (Spelling)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 0: Of Ducks Dimes and Destinies
The Universal Solvent
The Once and Future Duck
The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad
Attack of the Hideous Space Varmints
The Lost Charts of Columbus
An Eye for Detail
A Matter of Gravity
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 6B: The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff
The Treasure of the Ten Avatars
A Little Something Special
W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N.
The Black Knight
The Sign of the Triple Distelfink
War of the Wendigo
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 3B: The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark
The Dutchman's Secret
The Coin
The Three Caballeros Ride Again
The Beagle Boys Vs The Money Bin
The Dream of a Lifetime
Attaaaack
Gyro's First Invention
Forget It
The Quest for Kalevala
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 10B: The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut
The Crown of the Crusader Kings
A Letter From Home/The Old Castle's Other Secret
Escape From Forbidden Valley
The Magnificent Seven Minus Four Caballeros
The Black Knight Glorps Again
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 8B: The Prisoner of White Agony Creek
Gyro's Beagle Trap

There you have it. Most of these stories were already realesed in the USA.

I'm glad that Don Rosa decides not to write a story where Huey Dewey and Louie's parents return. It would be a very sad story.

Quote from user: Daniel73Quote from user: SigvaldQuote from user: Daniel73A lot of elements in Rosa's [stories] conflict with elements Barks included in his stories? For example, in 'A Letter From Home' the crooks don't turn into gold when holding the Philosopher's Stone.
They knew about that danger all the time and would thus take the necessary precautions.
The matter of the stone turning not only metal but even people into gold is an important story-point in Barks's story 'The Fabulous Philosopher's Stone'.
In Rosa's 'A Letter From Home' this is just ignored. As if it's forgotten. There should at least have been an explanation in the story.

Quote from user: SigvaldQuote from user: Daniel73And in 'The Lost Charts of Columbus' Barks's "Codex Raptus" doesn't fit, as a law counts from the year (792 A.D.) it was established.
That's how it works nowadays, in other times it may have worked other ways.
What do you mean, that it "may" have worked other ways in other times? Even if so, Rosa should have explained that in his story.

Quote from user: SigvaldQuote from user: Daniel73For example, 'A Letter From Home' mismatches 'Life of $crooge'. In Lo$ 9, 'The Billionaire of Dismal Downs', Scrooge left with his sisters. In 'A Letter From Home' his sisters stayed with his father.
There is no error here. Hortense and Matilda stayed with their father during the years 1897-1902 while $crooge was in the Yukon.
Yes, but Scrooge meets his father in Lo$ 9 and learns from his father himself that his father is proud of him. Shortly after that, Scrooge leaves with his sisters. Scrooge has heard from his father himself that he is proud. From his father himself.
In 'A Letter From Home', Scrooge doesn't seem to remember the answer from his proud father. Despite the importance of the event. Even the letters that he did receive from his parents in Lo$ 8, 'King of the Klondike', seem to be forgotten in 'A Letter From Home'.

Quote from user: SigvaldQuote from user: Daniel73Unfortunately, Rosa isn't the only one having a fall-down in quality in later work. Just look at Freddy Milton's art, Mau Heymans's art, and Vicar's art. As if they all get weary of drawing.
You forgot to include Daan Jippes...
And Marco Rota.
There's almost always a learning, beginning period, a "classic period" (when the artist's technique has reached it's zenith) while his enthusiasm for the work is still fresh, and a slow decline (which comes along with loss of enthusiasm, added problems with new editors or the Disney franchise taking on more restrictive rules, or the ravages of age on the eyes , hands or coordination of his/her body).

Only I will avoid the loss of enthusiasm, because I'll reach the point of having my final pencils accepted only after I'm 70 years old (ha!ha!). But, then I might suffer from eye and hand problems from the start!

Quote from user: Roger NorthI hope Don Rosa continues to write more stories in the future.
I hope so, too. But it don't look too good...

Here´s a bit from a Rosa interview. It´s from a recent Norwegian newspaper. Seems like new stories could be a problem although he does´nt say so per se:
Quote:But I actually don't enjoy any part of drawing. It does not come easily to me... I think any trained professional artist can look at my work and see that it's far too stiff and awkward to be considered "good". For me it's physical labor, but it's part of the job of telling the story. I know real cartoonists who just LOVE to draw and will scribble on tableclothes at restaurants. But I never draw anything for fun. I only draw to entertain a comics fan (or hopefully so).