Quote from user: Review Or DieIf I recall correctly, a member of the production staff brought in the Another Rainbow box set, only to be told that there was nothing in them that was useable (Note: @*_(%@#*%{)@#R@)#(% AND THEIR MOTHERS). It's not wholly unreasonable to assume that someone looked at the first adventure story and threw it in to theme as a weird kind of misguided homage.
There's actually MORE evidence that the DT writers were influenced by UNCLE SCROOGE MCDUCK: HIS LIFE AND TIMES by Celestial Arts. A LOT of the stories in that volume were adapted by DT.
Regarding the AR box set, I don't know which set Jymn Magon brought in (for I believe 'twas he that did it), but it's more likely to have been an UNCLE SCROOGE set than a DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES set. Several of the SCROOGE sets had been released by the time DT got into production.
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Topic: Write a short reviw of The Mummy's Ring
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Kimba_1962
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Message 16 -
2012-10-20 at 02:03:51
Gyro Gearloose
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2012-10-20 at 14:45:42
Quote from user: GeoXAnd really, even when the show is good, it rarely feels all that Barksian. Not being Barksian isn't always a bad thing! But for better or worse, I don't see any call to give the writers an undue amount of credit in that regard.
I agree that even Ducktales' best episodes (obviously, I rate a much higher percentage of the episodes as "good" than you do) aren't much like Barks' stories in dialogue or tone--they have their own format and "feel." However, there are elements (as opposed to sensibilities) from Barks' stories sprinkled all throughout them, even in episodes not directly adapted from Barks' stories (for example: the cannon ball that rebounds from the mattress factory to shatter Scrooge's bin in the first part of the Catch-as-Cash-Can four-parter comes from Barks' ten-pager with the Beagle Boys' debut, while the fish-people in the third part of the same storyline are obviously inspired by Secret of Atlantis, even though the episode is not otherwise based on that story). If the writers could work in bits like the cannon-ball-backfire, it's pretty much certain they could have seen the Mummy's Ring cover.
I agree that even Ducktales' best episodes (obviously, I rate a much higher percentage of the episodes as "good" than you do) aren't much like Barks' stories in dialogue or tone--they have their own format and "feel." However, there are elements (as opposed to sensibilities) from Barks' stories sprinkled all throughout them, even in episodes not directly adapted from Barks' stories (for example: the cannon ball that rebounds from the mattress factory to shatter Scrooge's bin in the first part of the Catch-as-Cash-Can four-parter comes from Barks' ten-pager with the Beagle Boys' debut, while the fish-people in the third part of the same storyline are obviously inspired by Secret of Atlantis, even though the episode is not otherwise based on that story). If the writers could work in bits like the cannon-ball-backfire, it's pretty much certain they could have seen the Mummy's Ring cover.
Matilda
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2012-11-05 at 02:57:44
Back on topic... Adrian44, I also like "The Mummy's Ring" a lot. One of my favorites in the spooky/scary/gothic genre. The fact that one of the nephews is in such serious peril for an extended period of time definitely ups the ante. Great spooky threat from the mummies, and strong sense of danger from the Bey himself. And the unexpected turn when the Bey says he didn't attend Yarvard for nothing is very funny...since you have been led to believe he would be as credulous as his underlings about the mummies' powers. I like how that shows the reader that valuing the old ways does not imply superstition.
The Bey doesn't really turn from a villain into a nice guy (as the Gladstone trading card says); as I see it, he all along has good reason to defend his heritage against rapacious Westerners, and the change in his treatment of the ducks comes because he realizes *they* are not villains.
So, there may be problems with the pacing and Barks may not have figured out his panel transitions yet, but the basic storyline has a lot going for it. GeoX is right, though, those jowls are disturbing.
The Bey doesn't really turn from a villain into a nice guy (as the Gladstone trading card says); as I see it, he all along has good reason to defend his heritage against rapacious Westerners, and the change in his treatment of the ducks comes because he realizes *they* are not villains.
So, there may be problems with the pacing and Barks may not have figured out his panel transitions yet, but the basic storyline has a lot going for it. GeoX is right, though, those jowls are disturbing.
Patrick Hanifin
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2012-11-05 at 03:31:51
Short review, okay. I really like this story. It seems special to me because it's such an early one. The ducks are drawn differently, it just seems kind of primitive like I'm digging into something with the beginning of the ducks, and it's also a mysterious story anyway. Yes, I just really like it!
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Cacou
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2012-11-05 at 09:37:01
Note also that in the mummy's ring, Barks' need to justify every action in the story is already there. For instance, Barks explains that the kidnapper had to get food for Huey so that he would not be guilty of murder.
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