Post by Spectrus on Oct 25, 2017 12:44:03 GMT
I thought maybe a thread like this would be interesting, to show what's being published at the moment and to highlight stories I think are good...
Egmont/Ehapa is celebrating the 50th anniversary of our "Lustige Taschenbücher" and the 500th issue shortly after each other.
The very first Italian story ever printed in an LTB was "The Bodacious Butterfly Trail" and it's still very popular here, as you can see by it winning the top spot of the fan-voted "Fan Edition". Those five books could serve as inspiration for IDW if they don't know what stories to print... LTB Fan-Edition Sadly my vote, "Dialing for Disaster", didn't make it - yeah, it's an Egmont story, but they did strike gold every now and then.
In LTB #499, which was released 50 years plus one day after LTB #1, we got a sequel to the Butterfly story which takes the thing into a somewhat weirder direction (and I'm not sure Flemming Andersen is the right artist for this, though he's certainly given his best) but also includes lots of quotes from Scarpa's original. Example: The Ducks and The Beagle Boys run into each other in the jungle, very much the same way that Scrooge and Donald run into each other in front of Brigitta's house in the original story.
Personally, I think the two best stories from this book are the two Carlo Panaro ones, one with Donald and Fethry (yeah, but this time it's really funny - and Guerrini's drawing is simply magnificent) and one with Minnie disappearing without a trace... we also got an old Cimino/Scarpa/Cavazzano classic and something relatively new by Michelini/Chierchini.
The relatively new LTB Halloween (#3) gave us the most recent Casty comic printed in Germany, with perhaps his best art so far and a really quite scary story that also amazes thanks to its unusual perspective (every picture is recorded by a camera, mostly the one Goofy has placed on his head).
LTB Premium continues to print the more unusual sides of Disney comics (#1: Ultraheroes, #2 onward: PKNA, #3 onward: X-Mickey, #5 onward: Darkwing Duck, #8 onward: Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine), #16 is another PKNA book reaching PKNA#31 in the main continuity plus the the 1999 special plus the short stories about Lyla. The next issue will collect Casty's Darkenblot series but I'm not sure how they can manage to fit the 448 pages into a book that usually has no more than 390 pages...
Egmont/Ehapa is celebrating the 50th anniversary of our "Lustige Taschenbücher" and the 500th issue shortly after each other.
The very first Italian story ever printed in an LTB was "The Bodacious Butterfly Trail" and it's still very popular here, as you can see by it winning the top spot of the fan-voted "Fan Edition". Those five books could serve as inspiration for IDW if they don't know what stories to print... LTB Fan-Edition Sadly my vote, "Dialing for Disaster", didn't make it - yeah, it's an Egmont story, but they did strike gold every now and then.
In LTB #499, which was released 50 years plus one day after LTB #1, we got a sequel to the Butterfly story which takes the thing into a somewhat weirder direction (and I'm not sure Flemming Andersen is the right artist for this, though he's certainly given his best) but also includes lots of quotes from Scarpa's original. Example: The Ducks and The Beagle Boys run into each other in the jungle, very much the same way that Scrooge and Donald run into each other in front of Brigitta's house in the original story.
Personally, I think the two best stories from this book are the two Carlo Panaro ones, one with Donald and Fethry (yeah, but this time it's really funny - and Guerrini's drawing is simply magnificent) and one with Minnie disappearing without a trace... we also got an old Cimino/Scarpa/Cavazzano classic and something relatively new by Michelini/Chierchini.
The relatively new LTB Halloween (#3) gave us the most recent Casty comic printed in Germany, with perhaps his best art so far and a really quite scary story that also amazes thanks to its unusual perspective (every picture is recorded by a camera, mostly the one Goofy has placed on his head).
LTB Premium continues to print the more unusual sides of Disney comics (#1: Ultraheroes, #2 onward: PKNA, #3 onward: X-Mickey, #5 onward: Darkwing Duck, #8 onward: Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine), #16 is another PKNA book reaching PKNA#31 in the main continuity plus the the 1999 special plus the short stories about Lyla. The next issue will collect Casty's Darkenblot series but I'm not sure how they can manage to fit the 448 pages into a book that usually has no more than 390 pages...