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Just made a blog post about the "new" Uncle Scrooge story, including a few images.
http://sekvenskonst.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-barks-lustig-and-jippes-story-this.html

Wow, I can't wait for that story to be printed in Holland! Just one question; It probably isn't possible for us to read the script in it's original form somewhere, is it?

Looking forward to next week! ;)

I have read that story and it was really great, and this is perhaps only me but I got good or perhaps more of a distinct feeling of family and daily life in a sense than you usually do. More often I read stories about great events that the characters are involved in, which are also good but its also good to read stories that have simpler schemes and more character driven. That's probably why I like Donald vs. Jones stories which are set in everyday life but then gets out of hand because of the two characters behavor.
In this story, if I remember it correctly, Scrooge wants to teach Donald to be a businessman and by doing so he thinks he then also should get a free meal at Donalds house. This of course dosen't bode well with Donald and his nephews and tries to drive their uncle Scrooge out of their house. This is probably one of my favorite part of the story as it shows quite clearly that the nephews know their uncle's intentions and tries to stop him and that's the plot set in a daily life environment. I also like the punch line/ending of the story and that it's orginally a Carl Barks story rises it above the ordinary :P.

Quote from user: McDuck MenuIt probably isn't possible for us to read the script in it's original form somewhere, is it?
Check out John Lustig's website. (Warning, spoilers ahead!)

The story was published in Germany in the last issue of Micky Maus. It is indeed a very nice story. It is such a nice and remarkable story in fact that I even bought two copies of that Micky Maus magazine so that I can "sink" one in the catacombs of my regular and consecutive collection of MM issues with "good artists" where it may rest in peace for all times, while the other one will stay among my load of predominantly Barks-filled second issue comic books ready to hand that I (re)read and consume without greater care.
If the story had existed in its finished form that time, at least the first seven pages would have been truly worth to be published in the Carl Barks Collection, as much as Hang Gliders Be Hanged! and Go Slowly, Sands of Time in the final shapes they got by Vicar found their way into it.

Quote from user: Heil Donald DuckHow many other unfinished Barks scripts still exist.
The ones I'm aware of are mentioned in this blogpost:
http://sekvenskonst.blogspot.se/2011/10/new-barks-lustig-and-jippes-story-this.html
+ The latest issue of the Scandinavina weekly got a Jippes story where the final page is based on a one page gag by Barks I have in my collection. (Gotta get around to post it now that it's published.)
Naturally there are also plenty of plot ideas/story germs around.

For more posts on Barks on my blog just click here: http://sekvenskonst.blogspot.se/search/label/Carl%20Barks

A very nice story. I liked it except one thing: the Germans included political education.

Let me show what I mean:

The script on John Lustig's website shows the following text for the first three panels with Uncle Scrooge



1) "Every so often I get to feeling I should do something for my nephew Donald."
2) "Donald is a scatterbrain, but he might amount to something with a little assistance from me!"
3) "Here I've got uncountable tons of money - and he has none."

In the German translation it has become this:
1) "Tja, ich hab's zu was gebracht. Doch mein Neffe Donald nicht. Woran mag das liegen?"
in English: "Well, I reached something. But my nephew Donald not. What's the reason?"
2) "Er braucht nur den richtigen Anschub. Man darf die Einkommensschere.."
3) "..nicht zu weit auseinander gehen lassen. Das ist unanständig."
in English: "He just needs the right help. We must not let the income gap become to diverge. That's immodest."

The first panel opens in the English script with a positive attitude. The German one opens with a negative view on Donald. But that might still be okay. What I don't like is the next statement reaching over two panels. Why does the German translation leave the story and Duckburg and needs to explain that the income gap is diverging and that this is morally wrong? We don't need this line for the story. It just seems that the German editors think they have the duty to educate the children with anti capitalistic statements. This is the third hidden left-wing education in the last four German Disney comics I bought. Is there some kind of agenda going on?

What's written in the first panels in Finland, Denmark, Norway?