Read any interesting stories recently? Here's an all-purpose thread to share.
I was just reading The Trial. The story starts out as a bog standard mid-90s Egmont story: Donald, Scrooge and the kids end up in some remote old western town, where the locals are dead set on Scrooge being some old criminal boss who robbed their bank on 21 April 1905. Despite Scrooge clearly having no resemblance to the robber, the Ducks are forced to figure out what Scrooge was doing on that day. They happen to come across an old newsreel about the mutiny of the Russian battleship Petomkin, where they recognize Scrooge getting hit in the back by a pram/stroller in the famous Odessa steps sequence. So the Ducks fly to Odessa to make a copy of the original newsreel, but the nitrate film catches fire as they're watching the film. On their way back, their airplane freeze solid over the cold Siberian wastes, but the Ducks are rescued by a old man. The old man turns out to be no one else but the baby in the pram, whose life was saved when he bumped into Scrooge all those years ago. Scrooge finally has proof of where he was on 21 April 1905, gets released from jail, and all's well that ends well.
Of course it's still a story full of monstrous coincidences, but the incorporation of the famous Sergei Eisenstein film caught me off-guard. I wonder a little who's aimed at -- no kids are going to get the reference, and the story seems a bit too silly for adults to enjoy, but there it is. Apparently Battleship Potemkin is something that really happened in the Duckverse.