tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post1443349687055884841..comments2024-03-28T03:15:52.497-04:00Comments on Duck Comics Revue: "Donald's Pet Service"GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-66416454019291653122024-01-18T06:11:09.050-05:002024-01-18T06:11:09.050-05:00If you’re looking for comprehensive pet care advic...If you’re looking for comprehensive pet care advice, A Pet Parents Guide to Caring offers valuable insights that I found extremely helpful for my furry friend.<br /><a href="https://petparentguide.com/" rel="nofollow">A Pet Parents Guide</a>Pet Parents Guidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12916433862818784694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-36927730415714321242019-02-15T04:29:28.992-05:002019-02-15T04:29:28.992-05:00Speaking of Fantagrphics, I would love to hear Geo...Speaking of Fantagrphics, I would love to hear GeoX take on "The The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp"... I find the entire premise of this one very disturbing and almost non-Barksian in how much Suspension of disbelief it expects from the reader... despite a great, great setup. Pan Miluśhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01364446151493198587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-91909778313420386262019-02-14T23:39:16.788-05:002019-02-14T23:39:16.788-05:00Oops! I just checked my shelves, and this story i...Oops! I just checked my shelves, and this story is in Fantagraphics’ “Donald Duck: The Lost Peg-Leg Mine”! Guess what I’ll be reading tonight?Debbie Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648307522331962265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-35372211953657231782019-02-14T22:10:48.300-05:002019-02-14T22:10:48.300-05:00Seeing this helped jog my memory on this story. I...Seeing this helped jog my memory on this story. I remember the parts with the hummingbirds and the nephew playing fetch with the dog upon seeing them again. By this time, Barks' ten-pagers had begun to get pretty formulaic, so something like this one could fall through the cracks because it doesn't stand out as much as his late 40's-early 50's stories. Thank you for running this. I don't think this one is in one of the currently available Fantagraphics Carl Barks books, or if it is, I have fallen behind on reading them (and Don Rosa's library) between the last few Floyd Gottfredson books and the Disney Masters volumes. Debbie Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648307522331962265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-17576137551448343312019-02-12T14:37:49.175-05:002019-02-12T14:37:49.175-05:00As a European, I still can't get over the fact...As a European, I still can't get over the fact that you Americans have screens on your windows as a matter of course. It's one of those weird cultural differences where you don't even consider there might be a difference until someday in your late teens or twenties you learn about it by chance and boggle. Achille Talonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636339293230261724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-84236660995301982492019-02-12T14:03:12.362-05:002019-02-12T14:03:12.362-05:00On the prevalence of flies: an old house like that...On the prevalence of flies: an old house like that depicted might well have been devoid of window screens in the 1950's, by which time they had become common in newer houses. <br /><br />Also, in gender solidarity I feel the need to point out that INDUCKS attributes the story idea to Carl's daughter Peggy. <br /><br />The anteater link doesn't work for me....Matildahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06989351918661352243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-92059218209597755092019-02-12T08:39:53.653-05:002019-02-12T08:39:53.653-05:00I must agree with Psycopathicus. What sort of odd ...I must agree with Psycopathicus. What sort of odd double-standard is it that we acknowledge that a swarm of hornets can be a menace, yet hummingbirds, who are noticeably larger, should get a free pass? Granted, hummingbirds are <i>cute</i>, but so are honeybees until they start stinging.<br /><br />Various thoughts:<br /><br /><i>"Who, no doubt, is a cat." There it is again! The sort of thing you'd see more often in writing than you would in speech.</i><br /><br />You're probably right (I mean, <i>I</i> could say things like that orally, but I'm a dreadfully theatrical person). But Donald <i>isn't</i> speaking: those are his thoughts. And even though they're written like lines, people don't normally think as a coherent internal monologue; rendering characters' thoughts into words is always artificial and doesn't actually reflect what they're thinking word for word. So while you're at it you might as well do it with some flair. <br /><br /><i>(god, this makes me sound so much more cosmopolitan than I actually am)</i><br /><br />Well if you're worried about appearing too cosmopolitan, perhaps you oughtn't have your username be “Rootless Cosmopolitan GeoX”, if I may. Heheh. <br /><br /><i>-if they're being fed whole friggin' goats, isn't the pool going to quickly become a horrific mess of blood and bone fragments?</i><br /><br />Not if those are cartoon fish who swallow the goats whole, as I'd assume they would be. They sure don't look like real sharks and lampreys to me. Do real sharks even <i>have</i> tongues to lick their chops with?…Achille Talonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636339293230261724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-81876364202242064252019-02-11T21:33:01.007-05:002019-02-11T21:33:01.007-05:00If what an old issue of ZooBooks once told me is c...If what an old issue of ZooBooks once told me is correct, hummingbirds are actually pretty aggressive little creatures who will occasionally gang up on larger birds if they find their presence offensive. We tend to think of them as harmless because of their size and diet, but honestly, I don't find the whole feeder situation here to be all that far-fetched. Comedically exaggerated and unlikely, to be sure, but I could see it happening in some form. Psychopathicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16626879914208092519noreply@blogger.com