Stories with AWESOME moments !

[Orora]

Tell us about which stories with cool and impressive moments, made you go "Wooow!!", where something happens that makes you want to cheer and clap your hands for a character!

I think a lot of Barks and Rosa stories qualify (which is one of the reasons they are liked to begin with)...

Has some awesome moments especially stuck with you?


One that stuck with me: Des vases à foison ("Vases Aplenty" aka "Day of Anger!") where Donald is in court because his anger issues have caused chaos and damage one time too much. So he is put under supervision by a flying robot equipped with a swatter, "Professor Vièyékol" ("Professor Oldschool").

As Donald goes by his daily life, other people are being arrogant, annoying and bullying to him, and when he begins to get angry, the robot hits and humiliates him in front of the others who laugh at this, taking advantage of the situation.
This keeps going on and on, and I feel sorry for Donald.
Then Donald gets an idea: he cleverly insults the others while remaining calm, they get angry and they get hit by the robot! And Donald enjoys it!!
When this happened, I was like YES!!
I love it when "moral high ground" bullies get a taste of their own medecine!!

[Matilda]

Most Awesome Moment in all my comics-reading to date: the moment when it dawned on me that the lost library of Alexandria ended up (spoiler alert! don't read this if you haven't read Rosa's story!) in the Guidebook. Words fail me when I try to explain how deeply satisfying this was to me. I tried once on GeoX's blog, but I don't think I succeeded.

The fact that this was my single favorite moment in a lifetime of comics-reading is the reason I was so horrified to find out that some European publishers put on the cover "The Origin of the JW Guidebook!" I thank my lucky stars that I didn't have the reveal spoiled for me by a clueless publisher. I did guess before the story made it explicit, but if I had known it ahead of time, I would have missed out on a moment of sheer joy. The "click" of perfection. Barks gave me the idea of the magical book; Rosa honored that idea in what was for me the best possible way.

[Minotaur]

In one Shacktown sequel Scrooge finally invited these poor kids for a Christmas dinner, and I felt I had been waiting for this moment for years!

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jul 28, 2018 1:39:16 GMT Minotaur said:

In one Shacktown sequel Scrooge finally invited these poor kids for a Christmas dinner, and I felt I had been waiting for this moment for years!

"One Shacktown sequel"? There are several? Gimme gimme gimme!

[RobbK1]

Jul 28, 2018 9:38:49 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Jul 28, 2018 1:39:16 GMT Minotaur said:

In one Shacktown sequel Scrooge finally invited these poor kids for a Christmas dinner, and I felt I had been waiting for this moment for years!

"One Shacktown sequel"? There are several? Gimme gimme gimme!

Jan Gulbransson and I produced a story in which The Widow Umble's children live with her in Shacktown, and Donald and Huey, Dewey, and Louie work hard to give them a fabulous Christmas gift, because, as their mother is so poor, they otherwise would'nt get ANY presents. It is listed in COA as 2015-004.  It was printed in The Dutch Weekly in 2017 Nr. 5.  And I hope it, and several others of ours will eventually also be printed by IDW).

I also wrote a story many years ago, in which Uncle Scrooge is coerced by Donald and his Nephews, to buy a Christmas dinner and gifts for Shacktown's children.  But, it was not accepted by Oberon at the time because they had several Christmas stories already in hand.  But, I think it if I modernise it a bit, it will be good enough to be accepted in the future.

[Matilda]

Jul 28, 2018 1:39:16 GMT Minotaur said:

In one Shacktown sequel Scrooge finally invited these poor kids for a Christmas dinner, and I felt I had been waiting for this moment for years!

Story name/link, please!

[Minotaur]

Jul 28, 2018 11:28:30 GMT Matilda said:

Jul 28, 2018 1:39:16 GMT Minotaur said:

In one Shacktown sequel Scrooge finally invited these poor kids for a Christmas dinner, and I felt I had been waiting for this moment for years!

Story name/link, please!

Right, I was typing on a phone so... I'm quite sure that you know this one: (H 21150) Christmas Clubbing

[Minotaur]

Jul 28, 2018 9:38:49 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Jul 28, 2018 1:39:16 GMT Minotaur said:

In one Shacktown sequel Scrooge finally invited these poor kids for a Christmas dinner, and I felt I had been waiting for this moment for years!

"One Shacktown sequel"? There are several? Gimme gimme gimme!

I did get an impression that there are more than one, but I really can't remember what are the others except Christmas Clubbing... I might just blindly trust my memory.

Edit: I tried to check it on INDUCK under "referred to in" section, but not even this story is mentioned. As for Gyro's First Invention... The story itself is not related to Shacktown at all, so I always feel something is wrong to consider it as a Shacktown sequel.

[Matilda]

Jul 29, 2018 1:37:16 GMT Minotaur said:

Jul 28, 2018 11:28:30 GMT Matilda said:

Story name/link, please!

Right, I was typing on a phone so... I'm quite sure that you know this one: (H 21150) Christmas Clubbing

Oh, cool. I think it was your word "invited" that didn't quite link up with Christmas Clubbing in my brain.

Now you mention it, though, I will add this to my list of non-Rosa sequels to Barks stories, on the thread I started for that category.

[Spectrus]

I thought the double-page spread at the beginning of "Topolino e il passagio al Tor Korgat" (Gagnor/Cavazzano) was breathtaking. Doesn't hurt that the story is excellent too, dramatic like a great movie...

[Orora]

There is another awesome moment that stood out to me.

Donald & Donald

In this story, Donald's mood issues annoy his family and friends one time too much. They decide to show him how "difficult" he is to live with by having Gyro create a Donald clone, and see if he can stand living with him for 24 hours.
Donald thinks he can handle a copy of himself, but of course, this Donald causes a lot of trouble and even gives him nightmares.
When time is up...

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}Donald pretends that he loves living with his clone, because he sees no flaws in himself.
Gyro tells Donald that he cannot get rid of the clone, and that he will have to live with him forever. Donald breaks down, and cries that the clone is unbearable.
Donald's family and friends tell him "Do you realize how you are difficult to live with?" "Yes, I agree! But please, get rid of him!"
Gyro quickly makes the clone disappear. They lied so that Donald would admit the truth.

Donald gets extremely angry, in a very restrained anger that scares the others.
He forces everyone to go inside the clone-making machine with an EVIL face.
Then, everyone is forced to deal with their own clone, and it turns out that having a copy of yourself forced in your life would annoy ANYONE.

Seeing Donald get his revenge and turn the tables against the ones who lecture him was SO satisfying.

[Spectrus]

Oh, that was never released in Germany! Time to put it on my wishlist. Thanks Orora!

[Scrooge MacDuck]

An interesting story, sure, but I was really put off by the whole "destroying the clone without a qualm because Donald finds him annoying" thing. I mean, as a copy of Donald, the Donald-clone was a sentient individual. Unmaking him is tantamount to murder. Am I really the only one who sees it this way?

[Orora]

Sept 5, 2018 17:10:59 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

An interesting story, sure, but I was really put off by the whole "destroying the clone without a qualm because Donald finds him annoying" thing. I mean, as a copy of Donald, the Donald-clone was a sentient individual. Unmaking him is tantamount to murder. Am I really the only one who sees it this way?

Well, the clone was always supposed to be destroyed after a short amount of time, just to teach Donald a lesson. Not because Donald found him annoying.
And when Gyro finally destroys him, he just uses a remote control and the clone disappears like a static TV image. I am guessing he was never really alive, just a realistic simulation.

In a sense, he was not much more sentient or less disposable than any robot Gyro created. Even Gyro would easily dispose of a robot that he found useless/annoying, even if it showed signs of sentience or personality. Then again, robots in those stories are almost always sentient with a personality by default... which is why a robot character like Margherita stood out for me because she explicitly didn't show sentience or personality... which ironically made her funnier and more interesting (for me) than any typical "cute" or "sarcastic" robot character.