Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Jun 20, 2019 11:51:58 GMT
…Okay, does it bother anyone else that the title story of the latest volume drops the "the" from "the Duck Avenger"? “Duck Avenger” sounds so weird as a proper name! Mind you I'd have preferred it if American comics had gone with a proper name like Paperinik to begin with (i.e. Phantom Duck), but “Duck Avenger” isn't it.
I don't have any thoughts worth sharing on the question of what the general qualifications should be for inclusion in the Disney Masters series. But! I have a wish list, and since my birthday is coming up, I'm going to post it for the heck of it. It's interesting to reorder my own preferences in terms of artist, because I list my favorite stories for myself by author. It's not that I don't care about the art, it's that I'm much more likely to decide which stories make it onto my personal re-read list by story content. But here's my Fantagraphics wish list by artist:
ROTA! ROTA! ROTA! There are many great Rota-drawn stories (written by him or by someone else or by him and someone else) that have yet to see publication in the US. My top choices would be Nightmare Ship, Little Helper Lost and The Incredible Shrinking Duck. I remember a rumor at one point that there was a plan to publish Paperino Pendolare here...that would be great, too. I could list a dozen other Rota-drawn stories I'd love to see published in English. Please, no From Egg to Duck! There are loads of good choices that don't perpetrate annoying alternative realities.
early Cavazzano: I'm aware that Cavazzano has had "periods" in his artistic career, though I'm not enough of an art-connoisseur to identify them all. But I'd love to have a glorious hardback edition including il vascello fantasma or il piffero variabile.
early Branca (before the distortion): My personal fave is Bananas, wherein Grandma Duck gets to lead a Scrooge adventure. Also, there are some great stories that were only published here in Gladstone I, on cheap paper, which deserve a better presentation here: The Green Attack, prominently, and the visually attractive brittle mastery story Tip-Top Topiary.
On using INDUCKS ratings as a criterion: I don't think there's any likelihood of the editors doing that. I myself find INDUCKS ratings very helpful but primarily as a way to find the better stories in a similar subset, not to find "best" stories overall. The raters as a group like some things I don't care for, especially the Italian literary parody stories. And they don't particularly value some things I do care about, such as stories where the female characters shine. They aren't as high on Korhonen stories overall as I am, and they tend to like his broadly comic or slapsticky ones more than his character-based ones, which are my favorites.
Has volume 12 been solicited anywhere yet? Should be a Duck volume....
I don't have any thoughts worth sharing on the question of what the general qualifications should be for inclusion in the Disney Masters series. But! I have a wish list, and since my birthday is coming up, I'm going to post it for the heck of it. It's interesting to reorder my own preferences in terms of artist, because I list my favorite stories for myself by author. It's not that I don't care about the art, it's that I'm much more likely to decide which stories make it onto my personal re-read list by story content. But here's my Fantagraphics wish list by artist:
ROTA! ROTA! ROTA! There are many great Rota-drawn stories (written by him or by someone else or by him and someone else) that have yet to see publication in the US. My top choices would be Nightmare Ship, Little Helper Lost and The Incredible Shrinking Duck. I remember a rumor at one point that there was a plan to publish Paperino Pendolare here...that would be great, too. I could list a dozen other Rota-drawn stories I'd love to see published in English. Please, no From Egg to Duck! There are loads of good choices that don't perpetrate annoying alternative realities.
early Cavazzano: I'm aware that Cavazzano has had "periods" in his artistic career, though I'm not enough of an art-connoisseur to identify them all. But I'd love to have a glorious hardback edition including il vascello fantasma or il piffero variabile.
early Branca (before the distortion): My personal fave is Bananas, wherein Grandma Duck gets to lead a Scrooge adventure. Also, there are some great stories that were only published here in Gladstone I, on cheap paper, which deserve a better presentation here: The Green Attack, prominently, and the visually attractive brittle mastery story Tip-Top Topiary.
On using INDUCKS ratings as a criterion: I don't think there's any likelihood of the editors doing that. I myself find INDUCKS ratings very helpful but primarily as a way to find the better stories in a similar subset, not to find "best" stories overall. The raters as a group like some things I don't care for, especially the Italian literary parody stories. And they don't particularly value some things I do care about, such as stories where the female characters shine. They aren't as high on Korhonen stories overall as I am, and they tend to like his broadly comic or slapsticky ones more than his character-based ones, which are my favorites.
Has volume 12 been solicited anywhere yet? Should be a Duck volume....
agree on a rota volume about new volumes.. amazon has pushed forward their listings of volume 10 and 11 from this fall to April and May 2020, I sure hope tha is just an error on their part.
just checked fantagraphics website, and vol. 10 and 11 are not visible there anymore (I'm fairly sure there were listed there before.. but not certain)
just checked fantagraphics website, and vol. 10 and 11 are not visible there anymore (I'm fairly sure there were listed there before.. but not certain)
Uh-oh! Yes they were... I linked to them in a Danish comics forum back on May 14. The discussion was about the estimated Amazon dates for these volumes no longer corresponding with the dates on Fantagrapics' site. At the time, Vols. 10 and 11 were slated for September and November this year according to Fanta's site... but the Amazon dates had just been changed to much longer into the future, in April and May 2020 respectively. And now these two volumes have been removed from Fantagraphics' site. Probably not the best sign when it comes to the release dates.
Book # 10 is listed again on Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/dp/1683962494/?coliid=I2KAYQ08EPIANZ&colid=7W7S3VTN2XQF&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it .
I'm pretty sure it has been listed on Amazon all the time. What we're concerned about here is that the release dates on Amazon for Volumes 10 and 11 were recently pushed back more than half a year - to April and May 2020, respectively - and the listings at Fantagraphics' site which had kept the old dates (September and November 2019) are now gone. So it seems there will be almost a year with no new Disney Masters volumes.
i recently visited a well known blog and got inspired, wouldn't a volume featuring Angelo Bioletto ( inducks.org/creator.php?c1=date&c=ABi ) be lovely? well the stories adds up to about 160 pages so it may be a little bit of a stretch to fill a volume in this case, what do you think, is he worthy of a DM volume?
i recently visited a well known blog and got inspired, wouldn't a volume featuring Angelo Bioletto ( inducks.org/creator.php?c1=date&c=ABi ) be lovely? well the stories adds up to about 160 pages so it may be a little bit of a stretch to fill a volume in this case, what do you think, is he worthy of a DM volume?
i recently visited a well known blog and got inspired, wouldn't a volume featuring Angelo Bioletto ( inducks.org/creator.php?c1=date&c=ABi ) be lovely? well the stories adds up to about 160 pages so it may be a little bit of a stretch to fill a volume in this case, what do you think, is he worthy of a DM volume?
Funny thing: the Massimo Vita volume "The Ice Sword Saga - Book 1" will be officially released tomorrow, but I actually saw it physically last week in a comics shop here in Norway.