a little bit OT, but... The story ''Plantastic Voyage'' really reminds me of another story with probably very similar plot, a in which Donald, Scrooge, the nephews and Gyro shrink and beam themselves into a cactus instead of a leaf, in where they help the cactus cells to battle bacteria or were it viruses that attacked the cactus, this story was also Italian and published in the late 80s or sometime during the 90s, do anyone recognize this and can ID it?
Could it be this Italian story by Fabio Michelini and Alessio Coppola? According to the German description, the ducks shrink and search the inside of a cactus.
a little bit OT, but... The story ''Plantastic Voyage'' really reminds me of another story with probably very similar plot, a in which Donald, Scrooge, the nephews and Gyro shrink and beam themselves into a cactus instead of a leaf, in where they help the cactus cells to battle bacteria or were it viruses that attacked the cactus, this story was also Italian and published in the late 80s or sometime during the 90s, do anyone recognize this and can ID it?
Could it be this Italian story by Fabio Michelini and Alessio Coppola? According to the German description, the ducks shrink and search the inside of a cactus.
a little bit OT, but... The story ''Plantastic Voyage'' really reminds me of another story with probably very similar plot, a in which Donald, Scrooge, the nephews and Gyro shrink and beam themselves into a cactus instead of a leaf, in where they help the cactus cells to battle bacteria or were it viruses that attacked the cactus, this story was also Italian and published in the late 80s or sometime during the 90s, do anyone recognize this and can ID it?
Could it be this Italian story by Fabio Michelini and Alessio Coppola? According to the German description, the ducks shrink and search the inside of a cactus.
And it's a sequel to "Plantastic Voyage" (in fact I didn't even realize it was not drawn by Cavazzano too because Coppola is such a close imitator of Giorgio's style), although Inducks does not have this mentioned yet.
Could it be this Italian story by Fabio Michelini and Alessio Coppola? According to the German description, the ducks shrink and search the inside of a cactus.
And it's a sequel to "Plantastic Voyage" (in fact I didn't even realize it was not drawn by Cavazzano too because Coppola is such a close imitator of Giorgio's style), although Inducks does not have this mentioned yet.
Cool! I did not know that, now I can look forward to reading this upcoming DM Cavazzano volume even more
It's a theme Fabio Michelini obviously likes, as recently he did another story in a similar mold, drawn by Valerio Held. But I don't think I've read that one...
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Oct 22, 2019 13:44:56 GMT
I am conflicted if buying or not the Heymans bros volume. I have almost nothing by them, and I find them some of the greatest Disney comics artists ever. Smoothy and edgy at the same time, vintage yet somehow fresh, 40's Barks oriented. I love that so much. But on the other hand, I fear to find myself with an hardcover version of a sequence of silly silly super-duper-dee silly Dutch stories.
I guess I will wait for the inducks link here to make a choice...
I am conflicted if buying or not the Heymans bros volume. I have almost nothing by them, and I find them some of the greatest Disney comics artists ever. Smoothy and edgy at the same time, vintage yet somehow fresh, 40's Barks oriented. I love that so much. But on the other hand, I fear to find myself with an hardcover version of a sequence of silly silly super-duper-dee silly Dutch stories.
I guess I will wait for the inducks link here to make a choice...
I would say go for it. Yes, there is some silly stuff, but it is really good silly stuff, and often laugh-out-loud worthy. There are also several longer adventure stories by them in it as well, so it's not all short stuff. I think the Jippes/Milton and Cavazzano books will rank as the best in the Disney Masters series, but the Heymans book will easily be the funniest.
At least the silly Dutch stories don’t run for 35-or more pages like some of the silly Italian stories. Personally, the Dutch stories were the ones (after Barks and Gottfredson) that I looked forward to the most in Gladstone’s comics. They may have been silly sometimes, but they were in-character silly and a lot less bland than some of the generic Egmont (then Guttenberghus Group) stories that seemed to fill up pages because they LOOKED the most like Barks (though to be fair, there were some good Branca and Vicar stories too).
Stuff is subject to change, but there's 17 stories in the Heymans book at last count. A good variety of them, too: longer mysteries and adventures, Scrooge errands, Gyro's latest invention, DD versus Gladstone, Daisy-centric tales, battles with Jones, Donald and boy competitions, even some Wolf stories by Bas H. If you truly have nothing by the Heymans, this is a very good primer. The spirit of late '40s Barks is very well captured here, in not just the art but the biting cynicism.
Stuff is subject to change, but there's 17 stories in the Heymans book at last count. A good variety of them, too: longer mysteries and adventures, Scrooge errands, Gyro's latest invention, DD versus Gladstone, Daisy-centric tales, battles with Jones, Donald and boy competitions, even some Wolf stories by Bas H. If you truly have nothing by the Heymans, this is a very good primer. The spirit of late '40s Barks is very well captured here, in not just the art but the biting cynicism.
At least the silly Dutch stories don’t run for 35-or more pages like some of the silly Italian stories.
Oh, believe me Deb, if there is anyone on Earth who will stay away from buying expensive hardcover versions (or even cheap printings, actually) of such "storytellers" as Martina or Cimino or most of those guys, that's this man right here.
I honesty have not an exact idea of how silly a Dutch story can be (as compared to the Egmont ones, that I have experienced much more). That's why I am in doubt. In the end I think I'll buy it. The only way I have to see Dutch stories is to search and buy old French or US issues, which would probably more expensive than buying a 25$ well-coloured book from Amazon with a reasonable selection of stories.