"Another Christmas on Bear Mountain"

That's right...ANOTHER Bear Mountain story! Collect five of 'em and send 'em in with your shiny tin dime to become a member of the Junior Birdmen of America! In the US, this 2007 tale was part of last year's extremely welcome onslaught of Italian Christmas stories, and without it, there wouldn't be enough to do a Bear-Mountain-themed series, so you can thank your lucky stars for that. It's written by one Tito Faraci, who is new to this blog. He hasn't been widely published in the US, but most of what has been is...Ultraheroes stories. That doesn't necessarily bode well! On the other hand, he's also credited as co-author of "River of Time," that rather cool Steamboat Willy "sequel," which bodes somewhat better! So we will charge into this one with an open mind!

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"The Isle of Can't-Be-Can"

Bah.  I would be posting more, but for things.  And stuff.  I WOULD be saying something about the new Gottfredson book, but I fucking DON'T HAVE IT yet.  And when I asked the Fantagraphics people what the deal was, they told me it had been BACK-ORDERED--even though I preordered the thing in April.  I know this is the kind of thing for which the phrase "first-world problems" was invented, but still...shit the what, people?

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"Donald in the Undersea Kingdom"

Okay, just one more Cimino story.  This is a 1972 thing that several people have commended to me, and…well, it's nothing if not unusual.  I enjoy it when I have the chance to read stories featuring weird, marginal recurring characters who have never appeared in English.  This is one such case.
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"The Easter Eggs-port"

Rodolfo Cimino, a prolific Italian Disney writer, passed away on March 31, at the age of eighty-four.  His last story that inducks lists came out just a few weeks before, so he was working right up to the end, which seems like a noble way to go--you don't want to be doing hard labor all your life, but for something not physically taxing like duck scripts, by all means--I'd go for that.  
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World of the Dragonlords

Okay, truth be told, I tend to be kind of a purist ("bigot," some might unkindly suggest) as far as my taste in Disney comics goes: anything non-duck-related is hateful to me, and the canon for me will always consist of Barks and Rosa. I occasionally enjoy the odd work by another writer (if I had to choose a distant third, I'd go with Marco Rota), but I always consider them kind of...unofficial.
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