No, it's not just the art (and the new colouring of "Donald Hood" immensely helps - it looks as if it had been produced today!), there's a sense of fun, adventure and light-heartedness that I sorely miss from almost all the new parodies/adaptations that try too hard to be "serious" IMO. Donald Hood is just Scarpa in top form, and since there's a framing device, there's not even the feeling of the characters being misplaced or anything.
Yup, one of the reasons I like Scarpa's Robin Hood is the framing device--so the characters *are* themselves, playing roles in a production. Also, lots of lighthearted fun and adventure, as you say! And Daisy comes off well, for once. Perhaps I will have to buy an issue with the new coloring! Where would I find that?
This is exactly why Germany has been going its own way with the Maus-Edition, which contains 100% Mickey stories, mostly such that don't seem to have much chance to get into the main pocketbook line, but also some reprints. inducks.org/publication.php?c=de%2FLTBM&sortbyvote=1 On one hand I'm glad to have gotten what I consider Casty's most important and best comics ("The Terrifying World of Tutor" as well as the Atomo epics "The Shadow Dimension" and "The Frozen Empire"), but on the other hand I wish they had reached a bigger audience and not been blocked for the other countries. So you can blame us for not getting "Tutor" in Norwegian! Hey, we even got two Casty covers in this series: inducks.org/publication.php?c=de%2FLTBM&pg=img&num=1
Whaaa? So that's how it works? New Mickey stories which are published in the German Maus-Edition (a series I REALLY wish we had here in Norway) are not allowed to appear in the regular Donald Pockets in Norway -- presumably because Donald Pocket is co-produced with the German equivalent Lustiges Taschenbuch? Damn...
The problem is, if the co-producing countries weren't so stubbornly against longer Mickey stories, there wouldn't have been any need for the Maus-Edition. We've been told that parts of the Egmont countries would have already banished Mickey completely if it wasn't for the German insistence on 1 Mickey story + 1 featuring side characters (Pete, O'Hara, Goofy, etc.).
Norway could still print these stories in a side publication of their own, if they wanted to.
Yup, one of the reasons I like Scarpa's Robin Hood is the framing device--so the characters *are* themselves, playing roles in a production. Also, lots of lighthearted fun and adventure, as you say! And Daisy comes off well, for once. Perhaps I will have to buy an issue with the new coloring! Where would I find that?
I notice nobody has added a scan of the new colouring to Inducks yet!
Thanks! I'll probably get it in German, both because I can sort of read German, and also because it's MUCH easier for me to buy German comics than Scandinavian ones, since people sell them on German eBay (and identify them by issue number etc. in the listing header). Nice to see that there are several other Robin Hood-related stories in the book. From the Italian description of the Cavazzano "golden lion" one, it looks like that one may have a direct link to "Paperin Hood"....
I notice nobody has added a scan of the new colouring to Inducks yet!
Thanks! I'll probably get it in German, both because I can sort of read German, and also because it's MUCH easier for me to buy German comics than Scandinavian ones, since people sell them on German eBay (and identify them by issue number etc. in the listing header). Nice to see that there are several other Robin Hood-related stories in the book. From the Italian description of the Cavazzano "golden lion" one, it looks like that one may have a direct link to "Paperin Hood"....
Yes! That one is a self-referential romp, and it's lovely! Proof that Cavazzano should have written more himself. The dialogue actually goes something like this:
"How about using a story by Romano Scarpa, he's one of the best!"
The book also contains a rather nice Gus-as-Robin-Hood parody (he's called Robin Food!) drawn by one of my favourite artists, Alessandro Perina, and proof of Flemming Andersen's early greatness (before he went off the rails) in "The Tinderbox". It also has a Bradbury Gottfredson remake, strangely enough with no writing credits (maybe because it's also missing from Inducks...)
Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Aug 18, 2019 22:49:37 GMT
What's with Disney's Comics and Stories #4? I've been trying to back-order it and it's "out of stock" everywhere, despite most of the much older IDW issues being available. Was it released in a low print number, or was it so good that it sold out?
