tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post2205301383175585331..comments2024-03-28T03:15:52.497-04:00Comments on Duck Comics Revue: "Lost Beneath the Sea"GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-34640413849678393302021-11-21T11:38:05.743-05:002021-11-21T11:38:05.743-05:00Actually, if I remember the story right, The Magic...Actually, if I remember the story right, The Magic Hourglass might not necessarily be non-canonical. From what I recall, the narrative is set up so that the nephews are retelling the adventure at a Junior Woodchucks campfire challenge for tall tales. So my view on the matter is that something sort of like The Magic Hourglass really happened, but the nephews embellished the parts about Scrooge's dime as part of the exaggerations (probably due to others believing the myth about the dime's luck).Written Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17979265483800761255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-49745295088521719152010-04-29T11:47:23.344-04:002010-04-29T11:47:23.344-04:00Wow--that's a really interesting point that ha...Wow--that's a really interesting point that hadn't occurred to me. I think you're right, though.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-48383263673932107722010-04-29T07:28:22.696-04:002010-04-29T07:28:22.696-04:00Also, this was not the Donald of the Scrooge adven...Also, this was not the Donald of the Scrooge adventures (pilot, all-purpose assistant, and low-wage slave), but the Donald of the ten-pagers who tried really hard at satisfying his boss (a precursor of Kolchak The Night Stalker’s “Tony Vincenzo”, perhaps?) and ending in his usual failure! <br /><br />Joe.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-18697089910448512452010-04-29T01:36:54.084-04:002010-04-29T01:36:54.084-04:00...oops--that's Scrooge doing the shooting at ......oops--that's Scrooge doing the shooting at the end of "Swamp," isn't it? Never mind then!GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-75932670254102445422010-04-28T21:56:40.776-04:002010-04-28T21:56:40.776-04:00Interestingly enough, this was the LAST long Barks...Interestingly enough, this was the LAST long Barks story that I read (actually, to be precise, "The Christmas Cha-Cha" came after, but that was written by Bob Gregory). I see what you mean about Donald--though he does kick some fish tail in "Hall of the Mermaid Queen." Also, I always liked how he neutralizes the bad guy at the end of "Swamp of No Return."GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-272919649137621502010-04-28T21:12:39.753-04:002010-04-28T21:12:39.753-04:00Unca Carl knew it all along!
It’s not that “Mar...Unca Carl knew it all along! <br /><br />It’s not that “Mars Needs Women!”<br /><br />It’s that “Mars Needs Iron!” :-)<br /><br />The luck angle notwithstanding, this has always been a favorite of mine, since reading it at the end of the sixties in a Walt Disney Comics Digest (This is one I never had an original of until the ‘90s)<br /><br />Why did I like it so much? Because Donald played a far more active role than in any of the other contemporary Scrooge stories. Maybe “The Great Wig Mystery” too, but he really stood out in this one.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-19322726781032673712010-04-28T14:33:12.968-04:002010-04-28T14:33:12.968-04:00Thanks! I got into this partly to commemorate an a...Thanks! I got into this partly to commemorate an artform that's criminally neglected in the US, and partly for the chance to meet fellow duckfans via the internet--naturally, people like us are pretty thin on the ground hereabouts. Alas!<br /><br />I know that Barks disavowed the idea that there should be any real continuity between his stories (so in "Island in the Sky," f'rinstance, Duckburg suddenly becomes Spaceville), but yeah, the thematic veering around can be...odd. Interesting, though!<br /><br />That thing with the Legos sounds fantastic. It's been many years since I was into Legos, but If they started releasing Barks-themed sets, I would SO be there.<br /><br />New entry coming soon!GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-91514138302973700182010-04-27T21:48:20.928-04:002010-04-27T21:48:20.928-04:00I've been enjoying catching up on your posts. ...I've been enjoying catching up on your posts. Always nice to see someone else who can at once enjoy the stories, take them seriously, and analyse them as well.<br /><br />You have hit upon something here that, as much as I love Unca Carl's stories, I have noticed regarding the later ones, especially this one, which either take some serious steps away from Barks' own canon (I suppose partly in an attempt to devise new plotlines) and/or, as you pointed out in your post, have some unnerving holes in the plot. I grimace every time, for the sake of enjoying Disney comics, I have found myself thinking, "ah, well, yes, I suppose I can come up with some reasonable explanation for that.....at some point." But I guess as my friends Joe and Chris, whose blogs you've already discovered, will tell you, I tend to be the most "forgiving" of the three of us in this sort of thing. To whit: at ages of eight to ten, I usually spent summer mornings on my grandparents' wonderful back porch reinventing, with the help of Legos and some terrific plastic Disney figures that my parents had gotten me when we were in Germany, the Duck stories I had just read. I wish I could remember some of the "glue" that I came up with for those tales!Chuck Munsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815223305362131302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-91390363006935191672010-04-14T07:29:33.733-04:002010-04-14T07:29:33.733-04:00No, you are far more eloquent than I could ever be...No, you are far more eloquent than I could ever be. I just read the comics and review them to myself. Sort of boring but hey it works.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-61432652572832807562010-04-13T17:52:51.078-04:002010-04-13T17:52:51.078-04:00Thanks for your kind words, and thanks for the cor...Thanks for your kind words, and thanks for the correction, which has been made. If, as you imply, you have a similar endeavor going, I'd certainly be interested in checking it out.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-38232651817767449432010-04-13T17:45:46.784-04:002010-04-13T17:45:46.784-04:00I love reading your articles. I always thought tha...I love reading your articles. I always thought that I was the only one analyzing Barks and the others. Please keep the reviews coming.<br /><br />P.S. I think you meant dime instead of time in this line "So naturally, they go off in a submarine in search of the time"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com