Greetings from sunny Jakarta!

As a few of you may know from facebook, I'm an English teacher here starting this month.  It's quite an interesting city, with first- and third-world elements all jumbled up, sometimes right next to each other.

But...let's not lose sight of what's REALLY important here.  At a kiosk just down the road from my apartment, LOOK WHAT I FOUND OMG:

Not a bad deal for the equivalent of a little less than a buck and a half--five Egmont stories, three ten-twelve pagers and two four-pagers, along with miscellaneous kids' puzzles.  Also, a page of fan art by Indonesian children, which really gives you hope for the future.  Of course, one might well ask: do I actually READ any Bahasa?  And the answer is...no, not per se as such.  But I'm going to learn some!  And Disney comics will be a great learning aid.  Inducks is pretty shaky on Indonesian material; if you believed them, you might think that the country had ceased all publication sometime in early 2013.  But no, in addition to the DD title, there's also a US one, as well as a number of things where I'm not sure whether they're regular titles or specials.  But they're here!  I would index this issue, except I would have NO idea how to identify the stories.  Maybe I'll photograph some sample pages (no scanner over here) and see if anyone can help.

BUT ANYWAY.  What does my being over here mean for this blog?  Well, hopefully nothing too traumatic.  You're not likely to see much in the way of  translation work in the near future, since, alas, I had to leave all my comics (import and otherwise) back in the states (that was why the sudden burst of activity in that regard over the past three months--I DO have a few stories scanned and ready to work on if I ever get the time/inclination, however).  Still, I have a SHITLOAD of scanned American comics (I have a tablet device that I use to read them--works surprisingly well), so expect a lot of that--including more old non-Barks Western stuff than usual--in the near future.  Cheers.