Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Oct 5, 2017 15:04:24 GMT
Any Jippes volume would have to contain his version of "Pied Piper of Duckburg", which has never been published in English (unless IDW gets to it first, of course). And I'd buy every volume of Branca that they put out in a heartbeat, the story doesn't matter much to me ... his art is so exhilarating, I'd buy books just filled with his sketches.
Would prefer they stay away from stories previously published during the Gladstone/Gemstone era though ... I already own most of them, and they're all more-or-less still available.
ROTA: - I believe the majority of comics drawn by Rota were not written by him, I would prefer if this volume contained mostly stuff drawn AND written by him - an absolute must: Paperino pendolare, a great longer comic, never been released in the US before - some of his comics featuring Andold Wild Duck - a longer 4-tier comic from Egmont: The Nightmare Ship or Beowulf Duck - Monster Slayer - at least one Mickey comic: Operation "Big Glutton" - The Last Stagecoach To Tucson - on my wishlist for personal reason: Wonderwool (the only Disney comic that takes place in my home country, as far as I know) - maybe: The Money Ocean (probably the best comic by Rota, and one of the best Disney comics ever, but has already been printed twice in the US)
VAN HORN: - at least one (but preferebly more) of the dozen or so of his comics that have never been published in English before - at least one story with his most famous creation, Rumpus McFowl - longer adventure comics: The Hauntland Treasure, The Black Moon
BRANCA: - World Wide Witch: the only longer comic Branca has drawn between 1990 and his death in 2005 - What About 65?: one of the best Egmont 10-pagers ever, never been printed in the US before
Ooh, many great choices!
ROTA: I think Paperino Pendolare is a good bet, precisely because it's so great, so long, and as yet unpublished here. I've said many times here how much I love The Nightmare Ship. I also like Wonderwool a lot, partly because it allows Donald to get the best of Scrooge at the end. (Once in a hundred stories, that really should happen!) I enjoyed Last Stagecoach to Tuscon, but I kinda think we've had enough of the generic Indians who can't make their wishes known like civilized people.
WILLIAM VAN HORN: If they include The Black Moon, they should have GeoX write the commentary, heh-heh, about how all the Ducks DIE IN THE END. Then he or someone else can list all the fan theories explaining how it's possible that they don't all die in the end.
My godson and my great-nephew would both vote for Hauntland Treasure, because DINOSAUR.
BRANCA: One of the signs of how good What About 65? is thought to be is that I haven't been able to find any comic containing it (in a language I can read) on the secondary market!
Certainly I think Scarpa was the creator that ever got the closest to matching the tone and feel from the old Floyd Gottfredson comics.
Hmmm… Much as I like Scarpa, I wouldn't say he's uncontested. Casty, you know. Although maybe you wouldn't count him for his stories being nearer to the feel of the later, Bill-Walsh-scriped comics as opposed to the early Outwits the Phantom Blot-style stuff?
I never really could warm up to Romano Scarpa's Duck stories. He had some decent ones, but... I don't know, even if many of his stories had an interesting set-up, and the characters he created turned out to have real staying power, there was always something... vaguely dull about his Scrooge McDuck stories. So many of them just dragged horribly, and I always found the characterisations of Scroog and Donald a little... shaky?
In my opinion Scarpa was a much better fit for Mickey and Goofy than he ever was with the Ducks. Perhaps it's just that he connected more with Mickey, or the "detective" format suited him better... I don't know. But Scarpa's Mickey stories have a charm to them that I find largely absent from his Duck stories. Certainly I think Scarpa was the creator that ever got the closest to matching the tone and feel from the old Floyd Gottfredson comics.
I think that Scarpa was a much better fit for The Mouse Universe than for The Ducks, more because he drew them much better than he drew The Ducks. He drew the latter in a distorted manner. I think Scarpa's Duck stories are good. I just don't like his art style in his Duck stories.
Hmmm… Much as I like Scarpa, I wouldn't say he's uncontested. Casty, you know. Although maybe you wouldn't count him for his stories being nearer to the feel of the later, Bill-Walsh-scriped comics as opposed to the early Outwits the Phantom Blot-style stuff?
Point well made. I suppose Scarpa's comics are closer to the Bill Walsh-scripted strips than the earlier Gottfredson-scripted ones, though I'll admit that I don't always remember which comics were written by Walsh and which were written by Gottfredson, so they do occasionally merge together for me.... unforgiveable sin, I know. But Scarpa's comics always felt to me the most like they were a continuation of the comic strip in its more adventurous years, in a way that no other Mickey Mouse comics ever did.
Or at least none that I ever read; I'm willing to accept that there may have been other creators that did an even better job and I just never knew about them because I tended to focus more on the Duck comics than the Mouse ones.
I think that Scarpa was a much better fit for The Mouse Universe than for The Ducks, more because he drew them much better than he drew The Ducks. He drew the latter in a distorted manner. I think Scarpa's Duck stories are good. I just don't like his art style in his Duck stories.
Well, to each their own. I never minded Scarpa's art in the Duck stories, but his stories always felt a little off to me; like they were all just a little too long and just dragged too much, which led to a story with some neat ideas but bad pacing and just a vaguely dull feel to them. (I usually liked the Scarpa Duck stories better when he wasn't the writer but just the artist.) His Mouse stories always seemed better-structured and -paced; at least they never bored me in the same way.
Hmmm… Much as I like Scarpa, I wouldn't say he's uncontested. Casty, you know. Although maybe you wouldn't count him for his stories being nearer to the feel of the later, Bill-Walsh-scriped comics as opposed to the early Outwits the Phantom Blot-style stuff?
Point well made. I suppose Scarpa's comics are closer to the Bill Walsh-scripted strips than the earlier Gottfredson-scripted ones, though I'll admit that I don't always remember which comics were written by Walsh and which were written by Gottfredson, so they do occasionally merge together for me.... unforgiveable sin, I know. But Scarpa's comics always felt to me the most like they were a continuation of the comic strip in its more adventurous years, in a way that no other Mickey Mouse comics ever did.
Or at least none that I ever read; I'm willing to accept that there may have been other creators that did an even better job and I just never knew about them because I tended to focus more on the Duck comics than the Mouse ones.
I think that Scarpa was a much better fit for The Mouse Universe than for The Ducks, more because he drew them much better than he drew The Ducks. He drew the latter in a distorted manner. I think Scarpa's Duck stories are good. I just don't like his art style in his Duck stories.
Well, to each their own. I never minded Scarpa's art in the Duck stories, but his stories always felt a little off to me; like they were all just a little too long and just dragged too much, which led to a story with some neat ideas but bad pacing and just a vaguely dull feel to them. (I usually liked the Scarpa Duck stories better when he wasn't the writer but just the artist.) His Mouse stories always seemed better-structured and -paced; at least they never bored me in the same way.
We're all spoiled by Barks' great story writing, and extremely efficient pacing. We mortal "Duck writers" had to use 12 and 13 pages to structure nice "domestic" stories that even approach those of Carl Barks. But, I do agree with you that Scarpa's story pacing was somewhat weaker in his "Duck stories" than his "Mouse stories".
I have to admit that the interest in this one for me is to see more of Scarpa's work than any need to see more stories about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Oh you will want to see more Snow White stories... at least as done by the likes of Scarpa and Martina. There's at least a second volume's worth, including the insane '60s mashup with Donald, the Cheshire Cat, and Honest John and Gideon from Pinocchio.
They're pretty unforgettable, in the same way Bottaro is. I'm very sorry American readers have been deprived of them.
Oh you will want to see more Snow White stories... at least as done by the likes of Scarpa and Martina. There's at least a second volume's worth, including the insane '60s mashup with Donald, the Cheshire Cat, and Honest John and Gideon from Pinocchio.
They're pretty unforgettable, in the same way Bottaro is. I'm very sorry American readers have been deprived of them.
Ooh, I've read that one! It's the one where Snow White's been blinded and Donald joins her and the Dwarfs to search for a cure, right?
Oh you will want to see more Snow White stories... at least as done by the likes of Scarpa and Martina. There's at least a second volume's worth, including the insane '60s mashup with Donald, the Cheshire Cat, and Honest John and Gideon from Pinocchio.
They're pretty unforgettable, in the same way Bottaro is. I'm very sorry American readers have been deprived of them.
Volume 4 is Freddy Milton & Daan Jippes. bit.ly/2y1shgp Almost every story has been already published in USA, but many years ago.
I for one am very excited about having these in one place, and especially ecstatic that the original '80s scripts by Byron Erickson, Geoff Blum, and Dwight Decker (sometimes with direct input from Jippes and Milton) will remain intact, or so I hear. After Barks stepped down, no one did the DD 10-pager better.