Good God Y'all
Yes, I know it looks as if I've abandoned this blog. I know there's normally a lull after Christmas, but this seems excessive. Well what can I say? I DO intend to go back to posting, but when your country is being disassembled by nazis, one DOES tend to get distracted, as some of you, thankfully, don't know (though you could probably guess). Anyone want to suggest a story to me?
Other than that, I wanted to pass something along, from an Argentine woman:
When I was a child in Argentina, each time we went on holiday to the beach, my mum bought mcduck series comic books for me to read. One in particular completely blew my mind, but I cannot find it anywhere.
I vaguely remember they (either scrooge or donald, most likely with the nephews) went searching for a treasure, with a map, and found a cave with a pirate's spectacular collection of seashells. I believe it was in an island. I remember the drawings very clearly, but might have the details mixed up. I really would love to find it and remember the title etc... I ended up being a maritime archaeologist, so it had quite an impact come think about it.
Super-cool that that would impact someone's career. The seashell thing didn't ring any bells (am I forgetting something obvious?), but this was the late nineties, she also said, and I THOUGHT that might be specific enough for me to find what she meant on inducks. Unfortunately, Argentine comics are extremely sparsely indexed, so I'm gonna have to rely on you people. That is, if there ARE any "you people" after all these months of silence. :/
posted by GeoX, one of the GeoX boys. at
2:18 PM
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Sadly, I don’t know the Argentinian story being mentioned. For story suggestions I’d love to see either “North of the Yukon” or “How Green Was My Lettuce”, both pretty fun Barks stories from the 60s. I think “North of the Yukon” would be a really interesting review topic because it’s a really good story and I’d love to hear what you say about. “How Green Was My Lettuce” would make a fun review solely because of the goofiness of the story and how you’d have to handle it for a review. One side note about “Lettuce”, a weird thing in the story that I noticed is that Scrooge’s plan, carrying his money away by carrier pigeon, is a plan which is suggested in “The Money Well” many years prior! The plan was rejected then by Scrooge because he said that the Beagle Boys loved pigeon stew, which of course was not brought up in “Lettuce”. It always makes me wonder if Barks was looking at “The Money Well” as inspiration for this story, or merely just had the same thought again years later and had forgotten about that quick line of dialogue from an old story of his. I always enjoy your reviews and would be interested to see you talk about either of the stories I mentioned. Thanks.
"Money well" would be also interesting to cover as well "Luck of the north".
I don't recall ever reading the seashell story, sorry. I know the feeling of trying to find a story you remember reading long ago - there's an Uncle Scrooge story I've been trying to find myself.
The gist is that Scrooge detects an unknown coin in his money bin - which disturbs him, because he remembers every bit of money he's earned, and this isn't one of him. The coin says it was a gift from this island tribe, so Scrooge goes out to find them to get the story, only to be attacked by them, as they don't want him bringing the coin back.
In a flashback, it's explained that the tribe constantly had to flee sinking islands, losing all their possessions aside from their sacred coin. Scrooge helps them realize that the coin is acidic or something, and has been causing the islands to sink. Scrooge says he'll take the coin back home where it won't cause trouble, and scientists can analyze it. However, the islanders hypnotized him to forget the whole adventure, so that he'd never come back and potentially destroy their new home.
No idea how the plot finishes; it was part a Walt Disney comic with various strips, and I think it was meant to be continued in the next issue.
But anyway, if you're looking for comics to review, maybe you should do the Plain Awful stories - Lost in the Andes and Return to Plain Awful. Both are pretty fun, heartwarming, and adventurous, and it would be a good way to dive back into both Barks and Rosa.
Great to have you back! You might want to post the question about the Argentinian story on Feathery Society, where there could be folks more familiar with South American comics.
I'd love to see you cover "North of the Yukon"--a great example of a story which only works if one has previously read a slew of stories in which Scrooge's miserliness is abundantly attested. I loved that story as a kid, even though I didn't personally know any dogs; we were a cat family. Love it even more now, having connected with dogs over the years. Plus, you could have fun with the Balto/Togo research.
I'm also hoping for you to write about "il piffero variabile" sometime. Would a story about overthrowing a tyrant be too on the nose now for you to be able to have fun with it, or would it be particularly satisfying?
Oh, don't worry, no prolonged absence of new posts would keep me from my ironclad habit of checking this blog's home-page at least once a week on the off-chance! And yes, given the situation in America nobody could blame you for being somewhat distracted.
A story suggestion… mwell, if you want to cheer yourself up with a Barks classic, I don't believe you've ever done "Atlantis"?
And you have at least one silent reader (a.k.a. yours truly) who keeps coming to see whether there are any updates. That's fidelity for you! :D
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