Ah, a Stabile story ("The Helpful Hammock"). Anyone know which story this is? Not that I'll be buying/reading this issue, due to the translation style, but I'm curious.
The Hamlet parody in the Dark Horse volume is Il principe Duckleto. I was bummed to find out that though the literature parodies are being published by Dark Horse rather than IDW, the translator and the style of the translation is the same, gack. I still bought Moby Dick, since the art is so amazing. Don't know whether I'll buy any of the others.
Other than "Mickey's Inferno" for historical interest and downright weirdness, I can't say that the rest of the literature parodies interest me that much.
Yeah, in general I'm not very interested in the literary parodies. I've always been mystified by how many of the highest-rated stories on INDUCKS are literary parodies. I prefer the Ducks to be themselves. Though I realize that the best parody stories play on the characters of the Ducks themselves....
Mottura's art in Moby Dick really is something, though. And I do quite like Scarpa's Robin Hood story, especially with GeoX's dialogue. This weekend I'm making my laborious way through the original Italian of the newest version of "A Christmas Carol," Zio Paperone e il nuovo Canto di Natale. We'll see whether I like it better than the Martina one. At least it has nifty vignettes of Scrooge's childhood family in Scotland and of Goldie.
Ah, a Stabile story ("The Helpful Hammock"). Anyone know which story this is? Not that I'll be buying/reading this issue, due to the translation style, but I'm curious.
Once again, no new William Van Horn. This anti-Van-Horn bias of the editors is OUTRAGEOUS!
Here is a quick inducks seach for all Van Horn stories published in the US after 2014 (i.e. by IDW). As you can see they have published 27 stories by now. In addition one of the Timeless Tales hardcovers even had a "spotlight on William Van Horn" article, and the first DuckTales Cassics collection, had _only_ Van Horn stories. How is that "anti-Van-Horn"... ?
It looks like the cover is for the Area 52 story, but the issue description doesn't fit these stories:
(W) Andrea Castellan, Stefan Petrucha (A) Lorenzo Pastrovicchio, Xavier Vives Mateu (CA) Paolo Campinoti Three stories never-before-seen in the U.S. await in another fun-filled issue! In "Mickey Mouse and the Unreachable Island," the Phantom Blot forces Mickey onto a deserted island in order to spare Mouseton's citizens from his latest dastardly plan! Then, in "Run, Fethry, Run," Fethry Duck finds himself facing off against a most unusual-and hilarious-opponent. Finally, in "The Art of the Perfect Traveler," Mickey finds his method for packing for a trip leaves one essential item to be desired!
With Casty/Pastrovicchio and The Phantom Blot, I was thinking another Darkenblot story at first - but I think there must be some mixup with the description.
It looks like the cover is for the Area 52 story, but the issue description doesn't fit these stories:
(W) Andrea Castellan, Stefan Petrucha (A) Lorenzo Pastrovicchio, Xavier Vives Mateu (CA) Paolo Campinoti Three stories never-before-seen in the U.S. await in another fun-filled issue! In "Mickey Mouse and the Unreachable Island," the Phantom Blot forces Mickey onto a deserted island in order to spare Mouseton's citizens from his latest dastardly plan! Then, in "Run, Fethry, Run," Fethry Duck finds himself facing off against a most unusual-and hilarious-opponent. Finally, in "The Art of the Perfect Traveler," Mickey finds his method for packing for a trip leaves one essential item to be desired!
With Casty/Pastrovicchio and The Phantom Blot, I was thinking another Darkenblot story at first - but I think there must be some mixup with the description.
This month, we present two terrifying tales in two different ways! While traveling in the desert, Mickey Mouse and Goofy soon discover “The Secrets of Area 52,” while in “Eek!bay,” Goofy terrorizes Mickey when the latter just wants to get a good night’s sleep!
It looks like the cover is for the Area 52 story, but the issue description doesn't fit these stories:
(W) Andrea Castellan, Stefan Petrucha (A) Lorenzo Pastrovicchio, Xavier Vives Mateu (CA) Paolo Campinoti Three stories never-before-seen in the U.S. await in another fun-filled issue! In "Mickey Mouse and the Unreachable Island," the Phantom Blot forces Mickey onto a deserted island in order to spare Mouseton's citizens from his latest dastardly plan! Then, in "Run, Fethry, Run," Fethry Duck finds himself facing off against a most unusual-and hilarious-opponent. Finally, in "The Art of the Perfect Traveler," Mickey finds his method for packing for a trip leaves one essential item to be desired!
With Casty/Pastrovicchio and The Phantom Blot, I was thinking another Darkenblot story at first - but I think there must be some mixup with the description.
Not as bad as the Inducks rating might make you think, but not one of their finest hours either. I wonder whether that is lined up for one of the next issues?
And a Petrucha/Xavi story, really? Eek indeed! Now this is the kind of stuff I'm talking about when referring to horrible Egmont Mickey stories...
Yeah, in general I'm not very interested in the literary parodies. I've always been mystified by how many of the highest-rated stories on INDUCKS are literary parodies. I prefer the Ducks to be themselves. Though I realize that the best parody stories play on the characters of the Ducks themselves....
Mottura's art in Moby Dick really is something, though. And I do quite like Scarpa's Robin Hood story, especially with GeoX's dialogue.
I agree, except on Robin Hood, which I have not read. Those old parodies are so related to the age and the place they come from. They are a reflex of the traditional pedagogical Italian approach to literature and culture. As such they should be read and contextualised. Seeing anything more in them just seems weird to me. I can understand an Italian feeling a sense of attachment to them if she read them as a kid. But except for that, what is the interest. Especially if you are not even Italian and cannot exactly perceive the cultural context that generated them. I guess people just like seeing pages and pages of ducks drawn by Carpi or Scarpa.
The modern parodies are better, I do not know why. Maybe because modern writers are decent comics creators that can put a panel after another way better than Martina...
If you liked Mottura's art for Moby Dick, you may want to have a look at his parody of Lang's Metropolis, always written by Artibani.
The Metropolis story is great (it was just published here in Germany in the LTB celebrating Mickey's anniversary)! Great art, very adult topics and also quite true to the film, even qouting hole phrases from it as far as I remember.