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Quote from user: DebbieI think the combo numbering works nicely, but if I had to choose just one numbering system to keep, it would be the new numbering, only because it is more new reader friendly, Maybe I'd put the "legacy" number on the inside of the book somewhere.
Hellboy was a series of minis and one-shots, so the number on the cover would typically be 1 or 2 (sometimes all the way to 6!), but on the inside front cover there was always the overall number placing that issue within the context of every issue published up to that point.

Quote:Do I dare bring up the "fact" that Scrooge was born in 1880? How do we explain the existence of a duck who is 125 years old? Wak!
Simple: same reason that HDL celebrate multiple Christmases without growing up - while certain events are established to have happened in the past, time in the Disney books stands still. Scrooge #1 in 1952 and Scrooge #1 in 2015 are still set in the same vague, never changing time period. Sometimes it may seem to us that in whatever story we're reading is more like 1952 or 2015, but it's just our imagination.

Even Rosa, the stickler for concrete details who bases the details of his stories on the mid-'50s, leaves the actual dates purposely vague.

Quote from user: Thomps2525So you're trying to tell me that Dennis Mitchell, Charlie Brown and Lucy Van Pelt are not in their early 70s, Beetle Bailey is not a 90-year-old private in the United States Army, and Blondie and Dagwood are not celebrating their 82nd wedding anniversary this year?

Frank King created the Gasoline Alley comic strip in 1918. It is one of the few comics in which the characters age as in real life. The strip is still around. Jim Scancarelli has drawn it since 1986.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_Alley
I've wondered about what it would be like if classic comics characters aged like in Gasoline Alley, then teamed up for some sort of cross-over. you can imagine, the result was a party of extremely senior citizens.
But then, even Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes would be 36 today.

I followed Gasoline Alley for a while, on the internet. Most comics featuring Walt and his old age had comments from people fearing that Scancarelli was foreshadowing his death. On one hand, fair enough, Walt was born in 1899 and served in WWI, while the oldest man alive today was born in 1903, and GA is known for aging its characters somewhat realistically. On the other hand, people don't want to read a comic in constant fear that its main character might die of old age, I think.

The funny thing is, if we take the cartoons at face value, both Mickey and Donald served in World War II! They must be the sprightliest veterans out there by now! ;)

Let's just ignore this whole business, shall we? :)

Uncle Scrooge is a character with a definitive life story, and even by the 1980's when DuckTales first aired, Scrooge's background in the Klondike made him impossibly old. Perhaps McDuck's longevity was best explained in Go Slowly, Sands of Time, in which it was put forth that doing what he loves keeps him alive, or something in the money he swims through does. Or maybe it is what keeps "the Wheezer" from The Valley of the Golden Suns alive, sheer will power and an unhealthy obsession with gold.

Quote from user: MustangRockstarWith Uncle Scrooge, I wouldn't mind taking an approach used by Batman The Animated Series, and to a lesser extent, the first season of Ducktales and Talespin.

Those shows created a sort of stylized interpretation of the past in which old technologies and newer technologies co-existed.

For example, televsion might be in black and white while computets exist, and jets are found flying over steam trains and old fashioned cars.
That's also what Batman: The Animated Series did, mixing modern things with visuals, technology, and style more akin to the '30s or '40s.

The new horror film It Follows apparently also sets itself in a nebulous time period, used to give things more of a '70s or '80s feel - even though it isn't implicitly set in the past.

Hey, is TFAW (online comic shop) right and Donald #1 and Scrooge #2 are coming out on the 6th? Only two weeks after Scrooge #1?

Previewsworld.com still shows Donald Duck with a release date of May 6th, and shows Uncle Scrooge with a release date of May 13th.

Quote from user: Thomps2525The Comic List site includes these IDW titles for May 6 release in the United States:
http://www.comiclist.com/index.php/lists/comiclist-new-comic-book-releases-list-for-05-06-2015-2-weeks-out
The same error was on the list of previewsworld.com
http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/71/954
But it was fixed. The Comic List apparently have copied a list prior to its revision.

I like the idea of new stories.
I feel like Barks, Rosa, Etc. are well represented in their creations and I enjoy seeing artists we haven't always seen a lot of in the U.S.