"Have Gun, Will Dance"

I realize that my habit of pointing at late Barks stories and saying "dood! Lookit how postmodern it is!" may be of limited general interest, but I hope you will indulge me this one time. If not…well, you're gonna get it anyway. Here's "Have Gun, Will Dance," from 1963.
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This is just to note...

...that Louie has read V.
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"Just for Laughs"

Here's a li'l Van Horn joint which I am presenting as an antidote of sorts to the last story. Donald is totally out of his mind throughout the entire thing, but nobody could possibly be disturbed by this.
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"An Easter Basketcase"

I like Daan Jippes; I really do. I haven't read him as comprehensively as I have some duckfoax, but I've certainly enjoyed a lot of his material, and his redrawings of Barks' Junior Woodchuck scripts are good, even if I'm still not totally sold on the need for their existence.
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"The Kangaroo Kid"

Here's a story from 1964 (and helpfully reprinted by Gladstone in DDA42) illustrated by Tony Strobl and written by the prolific Question Mark. Truth is, the only real reason I'm writing this entry is because I want to highlight the awesomeness of this introductory panel:
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"The Black Moon"

I wrote an entry on Van Horn earlier, but I think it really generated more heat than light, and I wasn't all that interested in the story nominally under review--it was really just a jumping-off point. So let's do something more interesting, shall we?
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"A Game of One-Cupmanship"

Well okay, thanks to an off-hand aside I made in the last entry, I have somehow been dragooned into writing about a story entitled "A Game of One-Cupsmanship," written and drawn by Kari Korhonen and, yup, scripted in English by our own Joe Torcivia. This was certainly not a path I was planning to take, but as I always say, when life gives you coffee, make coffee-ade. Let us therefore do our best to approach it in a scrupulously fair-minded fashion.
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