(I own a previous Italian version from 2003 with the chapters all together as a long coherent story, in the sense wished by Matilda, and that is the one I read in those days. But I find this reading too dispersive, if I will ever re-read it I will go with the main chapter first.)
Perhaps I'm conflating with a TdP edition then…? Weird.
(I own a previous Italian version from 2003 with the chapters all together as a long coherent story, in the sense wished by Matilda, and that is the one I read in those days. But I find this reading too dispersive, if I will ever re-read it I will go with the main chapter first.)
That's interesting. I wonder whether that would be true for me, too, if I had them all in one historical sequence. Because now, of course, it's a bit disruptive to go to the B/C chapters as I read along, but I've attributed that to the fact that I have to (1) keep track of when to go a different book and (2) actually pick up a different book. Maybe even if I had them printed in historically chronological order, I would still find the B/C chapters to be interrupting the narrative flow. Ah well, now I'll never know!
Maybe this is me and the fact that I read the stories as they were published but I think the original L&T works perfectly as a story EXCEPT for the fact Goldie is hinted to be an important character and then just disappears, except for some hints she and Scrooge had a thing. So the way I have recommended reading it for new fans is reading the original chapters except between chapters 8 & 9 go to read The Prisoner of the White Agony Creek, or perhaps just Back to the Klondike... The original L&T is a work that has its own narrative and works on it's own apart from that IMO...
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jul 28, 2018 16:04:16 GMT
Last year in France, for the anniversary of Scrooge, they have done something more radical: they have presented the whole L&T not only with the additional chapters, but also presenting in between all Barks's stories referenced in Rosa's work! It's a six volume Trésors de Picsou run.
I have a hardcover book that contains all chapters split in the primary and secondary ones. It's easily the best work from the Duck universe and gives Scrooge a background and makes him human instead of just a penny-pinching duck with a lot of money. I even cried at the last panel when I read the book for the first time.
The only thing that I think one can criticize is that the longest and most important part of Scrooge's life has been reduced to a single chapter. Is was the near half century he spend with successfully building his empire and fortune where he experienced the many adventures he likes to tell Donald and the newphews later.
The final title will be "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" and despite the official description, the chapters will NOT be presented in completely chronological order. Instead, as usual, volume 1 will feature the main chapters and volume 2 will feature the bonus chapters. Source: Rosa's official facebook fan page.
The book is listed in the February Previews catalog, and I see the cover art is updated with the title "The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", both there and on Amazon. But the description still say this is going to be in "proper chronological sequence".
Doens anyone have a link to the post on the facbook fan page?
Doens anyone have a link to the post on the facbook fan page?
Looks like a later post have the same information.
From Jano in the comments:
that was a misinfo from the original promo text. The B-chapters are NOT supposed to be added in-between the original chapters, which stand on their own and have a different way of storytelling (present, while the B-chapters are flashbacks). Book 1 is the original series, Book 2 the companion with the B-chapters. He also said that there will be a box set collecting the two books planned in this mini-series.
I am really hoping that the rumoured deluxe edition of Lo$ by Fantagraphics will happen one day even if only a couple of years down the road. This saga does deserve a definitive English language edition, and as none of the previous editions felt definitive, I don't own a collected English language edition of this series yet. I wonder what it would include other than the extras already seen in the DR Library? According to Inducks, the European DR Collections included even more draft pages than the DR Library did, so I am guessing those would be included. What else?
I am really hoping that the rumoured deluxe edition of Lo$ by Fantagraphics will happen one day even if only a couple of years down the road.
It's... been out since last year.
That is a complete but barebones edition, with pretty much no extras (no commentary texts by Don, no draft pages, etc.). A deluxe edition has been rumoured.
All the extras are in the Don Rosa Library. I don't see the point in releasing the stories a third time just to include those.
I remember reading it somewhere here that it will include more if this release happens. I would love to own a definitive English version of the Lo$ saga, so for me it would not be pointless.
Don Rosa announced the DELUXE edition for fall 2021 on Facebook:
"Maybe this is good timing for posting this announcement here, right after comments about the "Life of $crooge" stories AND Fantagraphics Books DRL editions... I was in touch with the Fantagraphics publisher today and he said I could post this statement about their Lo$ deluxe edition which WILL be out in the Fall of 2021: "Gimme another month and I may have some details. You could go ahead and announce it as an oversized coffee table book with all the comics and more text than appears in the two--volume standard slipcased set, and release details as they're firmed up.""
Like, if it's just for the sake of people who only want to read the Life and Times chapters and don't want to get volumes of the Rosa Library, that'd be fair enough. If it contains new extras or anything like that, it'd be pretty scummy imo. "Say, you know how you've bought these hardcover collections of these stories? Well, if you want to see this special new addition, BUY IT AGAIN!"
So I'm just going to hold out hope that it's just for folks who aren't interested in the Don Rosa Library and only want the Life and Times content.
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