"Gigabeagle: King of the Robot Robbers"

Hi, ev'rybody! It so happens that I've come into a big ol' stack o' IDW comics, so now we can delve into this material. I'm not going to try to write about EVERY story, because A) that sounds like a lot of work; and B) sometimes I just don't have that much to SAY about a story, and in those circumstances, when I try to force myself to write about it anyway, the results—as we've seen on a number of occasions—are not pretty (unless you don't know what I'm talking about, in which case, ho ho, a bad entry on the almighty Duck Comics Revue? An impossibility!). Still, it should provide a rich vein to work with. I'm trying to space out my reading here to some extent for savoring purposes, but so far I see no reason not to be HAPPY AS HELL with the line. Long may it reign!

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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 Path to Perfect Happiness"

(Hmm...we just passed the two-hundred-post mark a few posts back.  Let it be noted!)
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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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