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Quote from user: MonochromeOkay I just have to ask: What's with the different colourings of the Beagle Boys?
I guess they wanted to made them more "darker/shadowy" looking so if you don't know them you can yell - "Ooooow! Those are the villians! Aha..." the first time you see them...

Speaking about this matter. There's an Italian story I've recently read:
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2844-1
Drawn by the great Corrado Mastantuono, it tells the story of the Beagle Boys actually getting tired of being way too soft. The grandpa yells: "We've turned ourselves into miserable thieves of bubble gum and parking machines! Let's get back to our roots and show the world that we are still THE TERRIBLE Beagle Boys we used to be once"... and there they decide to kidnap Scrooge and actually KILL him if they don't get a ransom. They end up kidnapping more people but I won't let any more spoilers out. Anyway, this is the story where the Beagle Boys actually try to behave in the most evil way possible and they pose a real threat this time... for a change.
I loved the story and gave it 10 points. For those who haven't read it and don't mind Italian Disney material in general... give it a try.
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2010/10/it_tl_2844d_001.jpg&normalsize=1

Unfortunately no. Personally, I have this story in Brazilian edition. As I can read (and speak) Portuguese, for me it's no problem. However, the story was only ever issued in Italy, France and Brazil.

Well, they don't actually use the word "kill" but it's obviosuly hinted at several times during the story. There can be no mistake about it.
Really like this story. It mixes typical Italian style and great humor with darker and more menacing overtones. Well balanced.

Speaking of disturbing Beagle Boys stories in this one Bealge Boys are visited by a ghoust of a dead Beagle Boys...
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+2004-062

I also much appreciate "No Room for Human Error" (drawn by Van Horn, written by John Lustig!). Of the duck stories written by someone other than Barks or Rosa and published in the USA, it would definitely be in my top ten.
I read it when the issue initially came out, and it didn't make that deep an impression on me. But I re-read it again fairly recently--I sought it out due to the letter in a letter column in a subsequent issue that praised it highly, written by none other than David Gerstein! And now it's a fave. Love the art, the robot, the clever plot and funny writing. Love the fact that it is precisley Donald's human error that saves the day. Lustig's writing and Van Horn's art here complement each other beautifully.