I’ll pass. I already have the Life of Scrooge twice. Three times is ridiculous.
It's funny how with Barks, Fantagraphics can't even be bothered to put out boxes for all the volumes, but with Rosa, they release some things three times over.
This one thing here is the true slight towards the fans in my opinion.
"An unprecedented comics collection of Scrooge McDuck's life story, this epic Duckburg serial is back for keeps in a beyond-complete oversized full color deluxe edition―and comes slipcased with a special commemorative coin, available nowhere else!
From his shoe-shining boyhood in Glasgow, Scotland, to his gold-hoarding adulthood in Duckburg, Calisota, Uncle Scrooge McDuck has lived a life of legend… a legend founded by Scrooge's creator Carl Barks and carried on in Don Rosa's signature series, "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck!" Now join Scrooge, Flintheart Glomgold, Goldie O'Gilt, and more for the most amazing edition ever of Scrooge McDuck's biography. The original twelve chapters ― and the many "in-between" chapters and related stories ― and every last cover and pin-up are all in this money bin-sized book! Don Rosa, among the world's most beloved modern cartoonists, launched his two-decade, Carl Barks-inspired Disney comics career in 1987, with "The Life and Times" winning the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 1995 for Best Serialized Story. Presented with brilliant color and a treasure trove of Rosa's behind-the-scenes factoids, this taller, wider deluxe edition shows off Rosa's hyper-detailed artwork to full, glorious effect and comes slipcased with a special commemorative coin available nowhere else! This is the definitive Scrooge McDuck for longtime fans and collectors! Full color"
"An unprecedented comics collection of Scrooge McDuck's life story, this epic Duckburg serial is back for keeps in a beyond-complete oversized full color deluxe edition―and comes slipcased with a special commemorative coin, available nowhere else!
From his shoe-shining boyhood in Glasgow, Scotland, to his gold-hoarding adulthood in Duckburg, Calisota, Uncle Scrooge McDuck has lived a life of legend… a legend founded by Scrooge's creator Carl Barks and carried on in Don Rosa's signature series, "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck!" Now join Scrooge, Flintheart Glomgold, Goldie O'Gilt, and more for the most amazing edition ever of Scrooge McDuck's biography. The original twelve chapters ― and the many "in-between" chapters and related stories ― and every last cover and pin-up are all in this money bin-sized book! Don Rosa, among the world's most beloved modern cartoonists, launched his two-decade, Carl Barks-inspired Disney comics career in 1987, with "The Life and Times" winning the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 1995 for Best Serialized Story. Presented with brilliant color and a treasure trove of Rosa's behind-the-scenes factoids, this taller, wider deluxe edition shows off Rosa's hyper-detailed artwork to full, glorious effect and comes slipcased with a special commemorative coin available nowhere else! This is the definitive Scrooge McDuck for longtime fans and collectors! Full color"
568 pages
Well, 'The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck' is listed on Amazon as having 496 pages... if that count is accurate, it seems that there's a fairly decent amount of bonus content!
Plus... I'm a sucker for exclusive memorabilia.
I'm still not the biggest fan of the way it was released, but... it does look like one heck of a purchase!
Resident autistic, diabetic duck fan.
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I wish they'd just translate the deluxe Egmont box set into English. It's the most extensive Rosa library ever produced, only marred by the fact that none of it's in English. There's really nothing you could do to top that. And you KNOW there'd be a market for it, ESPECIALLY in English.
Nothing against the Fantagraphics set, it's fantastic. It's just bound to lead to these kinds of situations due to the series' limitations.
I wish they'd just translate the deluxe Egmont box set into English. It's the most extensive Rosa library ever produced, only marred by the fact that none of it's in English. There's really nothing you could do to top that. And you KNOW there'd be a market for it, ESPECIALLY in English.
Nothing against the Fantagraphics set, it's fantastic. It's just bound to lead to these kinds of situations due to the series' limitations.
You are forgetting the coloring. The coloring in the Fantagraphics DR Library is far superior to the coloring in the Egmont DR Collection. Another thing the Fantagraphics DR Library is better at is that in contains behind the scenes texts by Rosa for every single comic, while the Egmont DR Collection has behind the scenes texts by Rosa only for the more important stories. Also, the Egmont DR Collection includes lots of essays by people other than Don Rosa, which I think very few people miss from the Fantagraphics DR Library.
In fact, all of the good material that is included in the Egmont DR Collection but is not included in the Fantagraphics DR Library could be collected in one slim book: the Return to Duckburg Place comic, the speed skating two-pager, the few dozen parody covers, and a couple more things.