tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post2071195620303756046..comments2024-03-28T03:15:52.497-04:00Comments on Duck Comics Revue: "The Path to Perfect Happiness"GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-54220163762649200882012-04-18T21:31:18.399-04:002012-04-18T21:31:18.399-04:00Dochunter: Yup...that's a thing!
I wouldn'...Dochunter: Yup...that's a thing!<br /><br />I wouldn't call the question of Scrooge's businesses going under/not going under to be "weird," per se--it's really just a minor cavil on my part, and easily changed if desired. I am, however, quite interested in the question of multiple translations of the same work. Do different ages need different scripts? And why? Very elusive question. Would you say, Elaine, that the new French version is "better" than the old one?GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-58856665879330584282012-04-18T13:18:46.722-04:002012-04-18T13:18:46.722-04:00Totally unrelated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...Totally unrelated:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1b7h6pyJ83MDocHunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07962103432771225194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-65967102922731627412012-04-18T09:38:08.074-04:002012-04-18T09:38:08.074-04:00Joe:
The Donald short you're thinking of is &...Joe:<br /><br />The Donald short you're thinking of is "Circus Seats"/"The Best Seat in The House". Both appeared in Gladstone 1 and Disney Comics and involved Donald trying to get a good seat at the circus (each one more worse than the last) until he is finally given a seat high up on the trapeeze.<br /><br />Those Yeti remind me of the rats from Rattatouile, but I don't dare check. Those rats were animated too well for me to want a second glance. I prefer cartoon rodents that look nothing like the real thing. <br /><br />As for stories in which the ducks seeks spirtiual gudidance/balance, I was reminded of the "Flipism" story, where Donald was convinced by the sidewalk hustler to leave his fate to chance and ask no questions. I think it ended with him wanting to track down the hustler and beat him up, but he couldn't see which side the coin landed and wound up going out with daisy and her nieces (who lived in the apartment next door) instead.Comicbookrehabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09363501054869978524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-68842672825208995942012-04-18T08:08:23.186-04:002012-04-18T08:08:23.186-04:00Another point that I just noticed, upon rereading ...Another point that I just noticed, upon rereading Elaine’s comment – is that there were TWO DIFFERENT dialogues… in TWO DIFFERENT editions of Picsou? Was “Le Originale Editor” scared off by Pepe Le Pew, or something, and “Le Editor Secondarie” left to come up with new dialogue later on? :-) <br /><br />I know that happened once – maybe twice – during the Disney Comics and Gladstone periods, too – though I believe no skunks were involved. (Though, at Disney Comics and Gladstone II, you can never be completely sure!) “A Day in the Life of Scrooge McDuck” stands out, and I believe there was another Donald short. <br /><br />Sure, I can see going back to correct something. Or, update it for different times. But, you’d THINK, once a dialogue was established, that it would permanently attach itself as a given country’s localized version of a story – though that does not appear to be the case in general. <br /><br />Funny, way back in the days when our world consisted of nothing but American produced stories (both good and bad), we never gave dialogue a thought – merely leaving it up to Carl Barks, Vic Lockman, Carl Fallberg, Bob Ogle, Bob Gregory, etc. Now, it’s become an “art form” in its own right, and is analyzed and criticized along with plot and art.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-46757184191591453592012-04-18T04:07:59.110-04:002012-04-18T04:07:59.110-04:00Elaine writes:
“Maybe it's not that he would ...Elaine writes:<br /><br />“Maybe it's not that he would run out of money entirely in a couple of months; it's just that his businesses would go under. (Joe could fix this in the dialogue!)”<br /><br />Thanks, Elaine! I’m glad to see you’ve adopted my philosophy of “embracing the weirdness”, when it comes to stories like these. Yeah, it sure would have been fun to try! <br /><br />And, David says we COULD have had some more Mickey by Jonathan Gray??? …As Bugs Bunny would have said: “Ooooh! I’m DYYYIN’!” <br /><br />Indeed, the topic of unpublished work that exists and is ready to go (if the comics EVER start again) is quite sad in itself. <br /><br />There’s that unpublished Scrooge that I’d finished dialogue work on as Boom! went bust, that I called “Bad Things Come in Threes”, featuring (as the title suggests) a trio of foes for Scrooge and Donald to face – including one that is particularly dear to me! <br /><br />And there’s more I worked on – and still more I’m merely aware of. <br /><br />I’m not sure what would be worse… the comics never starting up again, or getting them back and having this stuff IGNORED, in favor of another “flavor of the month” approach... to lure readers that just AIN’T pickin’ up a Disney comic anyhow!Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-44186670177619181042012-04-17T20:58:00.624-04:002012-04-17T20:58:00.624-04:00Looking back, that last paragraph I wrote is kind ...Looking back, that last paragraph I wrote is kind of terrible--I start by calling the ending "wonderful" (which it is), and then I say nothing more about that but instead immediately, and with no transition, launch into a complaint about a minor nitpick? Sheesh--I wouldn't let a composition student get away with something that sloppy.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-6462044005185967562012-04-17T17:19:06.353-04:002012-04-17T17:19:06.353-04:00This actually is a story we'd considered using...This actually <b>is</b> a story we'd considered using at Gemstone had our run continued.<br /><br />Most other Gemstone stragglers were published by Boom—but a few weren't: <a href="http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++355-B" rel="nofollow">"The Eternal Knot"</a> (dialogue by me) and <a href="http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++230-AP" rel="nofollow">"The Chirikawa Necklace"</a> (dialogue by Jonathan Gray) didn't make it before the cut.ramapithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751343744514656549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-60401397731519496752012-04-17T13:32:42.011-04:002012-04-17T13:32:42.011-04:00True, the specifics of how the enlightenment is &q...True, the specifics of how the enlightenment is "catching" and how long it lasts are pretty dubious, and it doesn't seem to relate all that much to the words of the jailmate guru. I take this story as a fable: what happens when enlightenment meets capitalism. The fact that it's comic-book enlightenment (blissed-out expressions, relaxing in harmony with nature) and comic-book capitalism (selling happiness)is part of the fun. I love the fact that Scrooge's success at selling satori backfires by leading to a huge drop in consumption. True, people would still need to buy stuff, but isn't it true that "consumer demand"--mostly for stuff we *don't* need--is what drives the economy? So representing this in comic-book terms by the threat to Scrooge's empire seems appropriate. Maybe it's not that he would run out of money entirely in a couple of months; it's just that his businesses would go under. (Joe could fix this in the dialogue!)<br /><br />And then I love the joyful mutual greeting on the last page of the snow-beast and Donald, and the goat who flips upside-down to ski on his horns. I think the interaction with the snow-beasts is a fine way to picture enlightenment: alien but deeply welcoming, exciting and peaceful, and playful. And the incidents on the original journey to the Himalayas don't seem like they're just marking time to me--at least, not as much as the digressions in the long Italian stories often can seem to me. After all, you have to have stuff happen to make it seem like a really long (and somewhat dangerous) journey. By the way--this would be one minor problem with publishing the story in the USA: Donald and the boys are able to *walk* from Duckburg to Tibet!<br /><br />In the reprint I have of this story in Super Picsou Geant 128, the French dialogue was entirely redone, and the boys say: "La sérénité magnétique Tibétaine est une discipline appliquée de la philosophie du rire intérieur." A bit easier to translate than the name they gave it in the version you have, from Picsou 79.Elainenoreply@blogger.com