The second season of Young Donald Duck will include new stories and characters while retaining the same age. Will Francesco Artibani and other designers return in the German series "LTB Premium Plus"?
Francesco Artibani (who wrote for the first eight YDD stories) says that he haven't wrote Young Donald Duck season 2 on LTB Premium Plus 5.
According to INDUCKS, Francesco Artibani was the only person to be part of the writing team for every one of the eight chapters in season 1. I guess he's the one to blame for the low quality of those stories. Him not being involved in season 2 is good news to me.
Francesco Artibani (who wrote for the first eight YDD stories) says that he haven't wrote Young Donald Duck season 2 on LTB Premium Plus 5.
According to INDUCKS, Francesco Artibani was the only person to be part of the writing team for every one of the eight chapters in season 1. I guess he's the one to blame for the low quality of those stories. Him not being involved in season 2 is good news to me.
Looks like upcoming pictures of Young Donald Duck season 2 will be exciting!!
Francesco Artibani (who wrote for the first eight YDD stories) says that he haven't wrote Young Donald Duck season 2 on LTB Premium Plus 5.
According to INDUCKS, Francesco Artibani was the only person to be part of the writing team for every one of the eight chapters in season 1. I guess he's the one to blame for the low quality of those stories. Him not being involved in season 2 is good news to me.
Don't you put my friend Francesco down! He was writing for an editorial idea and probably didn't get anywhere near the freedom he needs to write good stories (and there's ample evidence that he's one of the best current Disney writers - from "Scrooge's Last Adventure" and the other big old Glomgold epic to several cornerstones of "Duck Avenger: New Adventures", across "Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine" and "X-Mickey" up to the stories pairing Mickey with Commissario Topalbano in Sicily, etc.).
Furthermore, his contribution to the most recent 8-chapter "ministory" - "SpookyZone" (starring HDL) - was clearly superior to those by Stefano Ambrosio and Alessandro Ferrari.
According to INDUCKS, Francesco Artibani was the only person to be part of the writing team for every one of the eight chapters in season 1. I guess he's the one to blame for the low quality of those stories. Him not being involved in season 2 is good news to me.
Don't you put my friend Francesco down! He was writing for an editorial idea and probably didn't get anywhere near the freedom he needs to write good stories (and there's ample evidence that he's one of the best current Disney writers - from "Scrooge's Last Adventures" and the other big old Glomgold epic to several cornerstones of "Duck Avenger: New Adventures", across "Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine" and "X-Mickey" up to the stories pairing Mickey with Commissario Topalbano in Sicily, etc.).
Furthermore, his contribution to the most recent 8-chapter "ministory" - "SpookyZone" (starring HDL) - was clearly superior to those by Stefano Ambrosio and Alessandro Ferrari.
I disagree - I'm well within my right to put him down. Not him as a person, of course - I haven't met the guy. And I don't believe I have read any of the other stories you mentioned, so I don't really have an opinion on those either. However, what I have read and what I do have an opinion on is Young Donald Duck. And it's a series of bad stories, all of which I don't like. Most every aspect of these stories are things I believe to be wrong for a series about Donald Duck's youth. Sure, there may have been editorial guidelines that Artibani had to follow, and I don't know what those guidelines were. But that doesn't change that the end result was a narrative failure in every way. For more detail about my opinions on the matter, I will direct you to the first handful of posts in this thread. This is more than enough reason for me to want him, and every one else who was responsible for series 1, off the sequel-project.
Of course, a potentially perfect series 2 wouldn't make series 1 retroactively better. In my opinion it would be better to start over fresh, with a more competent creative team (and of course, without such editorial decisions that led to series 1), and make a better story worthy of a character such as Donald Duck. Build your house on a solid foundation, and all that stuff.
Also, I could just as well say to you "Don't you put Stefano Ambrosio and Alessandro Ferrari down!". I won't, though. You're free to dislike their work.
Don't you put my friend Francesco down! He was writing for an editorial idea and probably didn't get anywhere near the freedom he needs to write good stories (and there's ample evidence that he's one of the best current Disney writers - from "Scrooge's Last Adventures" and the other big old Glomgold epic to several cornerstones of "Duck Avenger: New Adventures", across "Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine" and "X-Mickey" up to the stories pairing Mickey with Commissario Topalbano in Sicily, etc.).
Furthermore, his contribution to the most recent 8-chapter "ministory" - "SpookyZone" (starring HDL) - was clearly superior to those by Stefano Ambrosio and Alessandro Ferrari.
Also, I could just as well say to you "Don't you put Stefano Ambrosio and Alessandro Ferrari down!". I won't, though. You're free to dislike their work.
I'm speaking from experience with reading a lot of stories by Stefano Ambrosio, who is a writer if WILDLY varying quality and has written some really awful stuff, and from knowing that Ferrari was one of the guys behind "Ultraheroes".
I'm not necessarily in disagreement on Young Donald Duck (it was also blasted on the Italian Papersera forum), but I think it can't all be down to Artibani having a bad day.
I don't know what to add. Even if I would read and enjoy some of his other work, his work on Young Donald Duck still left me disappointed. It seems only rational for me to want him replaced by someone more fitting for this kind of story. You telling me that "other people like his other stuff" isn't going to change that.
On another note, I wouldn't use INDUCK's rating system as "proof" like that. I only looked through those lists quickly, but they seem... biased... I mean, I love Don Rosa's stories as much as the next guy, but that list you sent with the 1990s category has Rosa-stories in almost every slot of the top 30. The same can be said for Barks-stories in the "general top 100" list. That's off-topic and unrelated, but I don't consider that to be a valid way of measuring a story's quality.
I've read a lot of good stuff by Artibani; including some of the stories that Spectrus mentioned, and even several chapters of W.I.T.CH. Given that, I too have a feeling that he's not the main person to blame for the problems with Young Donald Duck. But who knows what went on behind the scenes.
