"The Christmas Gathering"

Here it is: our first Christmas Christmas story--a Beagle Boys joint by Gorm Transgaard, and boy is it ever not his fault that his name always makes me think "gormless," but it absolutely does. Of course, if being without gorm means being kind of weak and dopey, you'd think it would that gorm would be a good thing, but my brain refuses to work that way. Well...so it goes.

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"Birds of a Fethry"

Things have been quiet here because, seeing as I'm almost done with my marathon Ducktales-watching session, I've been devoting most of my duck-blogging attention to my other place. But fear not--Fethry "Week" continues! Now, we will look at a contemporary Fethry story. A number of these appeared in Gemstone's books; they generally follow the format of the Hubbard/Kinney stories (except the ones in the digests--but that's a story for another day), only with less terrifying artwork--so what's not to like? For variety, here is a story where Fethry's getting on someone other than Donald's nerves.
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