tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post4752273114114384284..comments2024-03-28T03:15:52.497-04:00Comments on Duck Comics Revue: "Best Christmas"GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-52420231344792181892015-02-26T16:55:50.676-05:002015-02-26T16:55:50.676-05:00Food for thought: Could this "grandma", ...Food for thought: Could this "grandma", in fact, be Hortense? I mean, it's clearly not Elvira, so it stands to reason it must be Donald or HDL's other grandma. And she's certainly energetic enough. You might ask why Donald would refer to her as "grandma" in that case, but I don't think it's that unusual for parents to refer to their own parents as "grandma" or "grandpa" when talking to their own kids, to avoid confusion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-32415782383920830702014-12-21T18:28:25.826-05:002014-12-21T18:28:25.826-05:00Yay! I was all sad because it was going to be The ...Yay! I was all sad because it was going to be The Christmas Without GeoX! But Santa/"Grandma" arrives, bringing all we need to celebrate in style: GeoX *and* Barks. <br /><br />On Donald's conversion... I presume that the kids fill him in on the bare table & cupboard after the "You don't know how much worse a Christmas could be!" panel, and that's why he later accepts their announcement that they gave the Christmas Stuff away without exploding. What's missing is the visual depiction of this change of heart, as in the famous wordless panels in Luck of the North. <br /><br />Which printing did you scan? In the Gladstone album of the Firestone stories, Donald is throwing a snowball, not oobleck. <br /><br />I don't mind the fact that HDL spell out the moral, because that functions as a set-up for Donald to claim that he's been right all along. I find the next-to-last panel quite funny,when HDL make the moral explicit and Donald says, "That's beside the point!" Because what they've said would be precisely the point, were this a typical kiddie Christmas story. Elainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-51043937510903888662014-12-21T16:27:07.631-05:002014-12-21T16:27:07.631-05:00Great to see ya back, man!
I always thought this ...Great to see ya back, man!<br /><br />I always thought this was partly written by someone else other than Barks; the way the sappiness is shoe-horned all of a sudden reminds me of the equally inelegant situation in "The Golden Christmas Tree". That one has much more documentation behind it to prove it happened whereas there's no evidence with this one, though. I still can't see Barks including this sort of stuff without a mandate from the higher ups.Richiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09935204176414624605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-23718739025687988592014-12-21T11:51:37.031-05:002014-12-21T11:51:37.031-05:00Geo,
Yeah, it's a bit sappy, but I've alw...Geo,<br /><br />Yeah, it's a bit sappy, but I've always liked this one. There's just enough bite in it -- mostly relating to Donald's behavior, at least pre-whiplash -- to provide some balance.<br /><br />ChrisChris Barathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-44276965611244064002014-12-21T08:14:45.437-05:002014-12-21T08:14:45.437-05:00"you wouldn’t have come back, and you’d’ve fo..."you wouldn’t have come back, and you’d’ve found “Grandma’s” house as empty as the grave. THEN what?!?"<br /><br />Why... That would be the WORST Christmas ever :( No I'm sad... Pan Miluśhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13040860912155201940noreply@blogger.com