I'm not sure where to stick this, since the 2018 IDW schedule is completely overhauled at this point and the dates on the former solicitations are meaningless...
But I did receive a slab of contributor's copies today that included Uncle Scrooge: The Tourist at the End of the Universe (TPB), Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #742, and Donald and Mickey #3: Treasure Menace in Venice. So these should be in shops this coming week or next.
But the page is a bit inconvenient to use when the comics you want to find are spread over different catalogs (months) like in our case. I have my own text file to keep track of this but you could also check out squeakyboots ' great list of upcoming comics (check his signature on this forum).
Once you have the order codes you can simply type in the direct address to that comic:
But the page is a bit inconvenient to use when the comics you want to find are spread over different catalogs (months) like in our case. I have my own text file to keep track of this but you could also check out squeakyboots ' great list of upcoming comics (check his signature on this forum).
Once you have the order codes you can simply type in the direct address to that comic:
Looks like some the covers are recently updated too (always a good sign)
Thanks muchly! Yes, using the catalogs was very frustrating, even apart from the delays. Now I know to look for the order codes and use those directly to find updates.
Ooh, I love Jonathan's cover for U$ 36 "Treasure above the Clouds"! Look at those Peruvian Woodchucks! Nice how they were able to move the little square Disney comics logo so it wouldn't throw off the design.
Ooh, I love Jonathan's cover for U$ 36 "Treasure above the Clouds"! Look at those Peruvian Woodchucks! Nice how they were able to move the little square Disney comics logo so it wouldn't throw off the design.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jun 24, 2018 14:27:36 GMT
Well, I just read the second half of The ray of Atlantis by Casty (from this month issue of Super Picsou Géant), and I must say: good for you that the second half will finally be published in the us...'cause they do all the talking in the first part and all the action in the second.
Well, I just read the second half of The ray of Atlantis by Casty (from this month issue of Super Picsou Géant), and I must say: good for you that the second half will finally be published in the us...'cause they do all the talking in the first part and all the action in the second.
True, the first half was largely one long infodump! Glad to know things will happen in the second half.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jun 24, 2018 15:54:03 GMT
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As usual, one of the great problems of Casty - and the reason why I do not like him on long adventures - is that his vintage sci-fi and/or para-archeological stories need often a lot of explanations, conversations, bla bla etc... Another problem is that his utopian and dystopian societies - his liet-motiv - are always depicted in a too rough Manichaean way, even for a children reading (and Casty admitely cares more about the young readers, of course). These societies - typically lost cities or modern super-technological ones - are always filled up with colorless characters, as anonymous as the way he draws them.
This Ray of Atlantis is the summa of all these flaws (flaws for me at least, not for the other readers apparently). But there is some good action in the second half, so it's not a bad story in the end. If one gets to the end.
*Speaking of spoilers, there is a big one in that preview by IDW...do not read it!
As usual, one of the great problems of Casty - and the reason why I do not like him on long adventures - is that his vintage sci-fi and/or para-archeological stories need often a lot of explanations, conversations, bla bla etc... Another problem is that his utopian and dystopian societies - his liet-motiv - are always depicted in a too rough Manichaean way, even for a children reading (and Casty admitely cares more about the young readers, of course). These societies - typically lost cities or modern super-technological ones - are always filled up with colorless characters, as anonymous as the way he draws them.
This Ray of Atlantis is the summa of all these flaws (flaws for me at least, not for the other readers apparently). But there is some good action in the second half, so it's not a bad story in the end. If one gets to the end.
*Speaking of spoilers, there is a big one in that preview by IDW...do not read it!
Your thoughts on this story, and Casty in general, mirror my own, and why I was never keen on IDW's Mickey Mouse title becoming Casty's Mickey Mouse (and subsequently the giants and C&S). His work is usually great, but a sizable chunk of these longer stories read like Rosa's: boring textbooks with endless exposition. Albeit, better drawn, but still... Usually if Casty keeps it under 40 pages, the problem isn't there. Otherwise... there are other Mouse authors worth printing, too!
Usually if Casty keeps it under 40 pages, the problem isn't there. Otherwise... there are other Mouse authors worth printing, too!
Come here, hug me brother! I have been writing this very sentence on the internet for a few years now, since I have been reading Casty less occasionally than before and with more interest. I actually stopped commenting Casty's stories on the papersera, the big Italian Disney forum, because some people there could not really stand this opinion of mine. They (some of them blind fans, not the majority of the users of the forum, just to avoid polemics) saw me, and in a way made me feel, like some kind of "Casty hater". Whereas I do think that he is the greatest Italian Mickey writer, second only to Tito Faraci (who's not anymore the genius he was in the late 90's, but he is still on another planet compared to any active Disney comics writer in the world). Damn...I even think that Casty is better than Scarpa! When even a well known Disney artist showed that attitude towards one of my post (where I was speaking positively of a Casty story) I decided that the forum was not for me anymore.
Usually if Casty keeps it under 40 pages, the problem isn't there. Otherwise... there are other Mouse authors worth printing, too!
Come here, hug me brother! I have been writing this very sentence on the internet for a few years now, since I have been reading Casty less occasionally than before and with more interest. I actually stopped commenting Casty's stories on the papersera, the big Italian Disney forum, because some people there could not really stand this opinion of mine. They (some of them blind fans, not the majority of the users of the forum, just to avoid polemics) saw me, and in a way made me feel, like some kind of "Casty hater". Whereas I do think that he is the greatest Italian Mickey writer, second only to Tito Faraci (who's not anymore the genius he was in the late 90's, but he is still on another planet compared to any active Disney comics writer in the world). Damn...I even think that Casty is better than Scarpa! When even a well known Disney artist showed that attitude towards one of my post (where I was speaking positively of a Casty story) I decided that the forum was not for me anymore.
Fannishness in large numbers is never productive.
I should stipulate that my "40 pages" comment was in reference to the "vintage sci-fi and/or para-archeological" stories. I localized "Topolino e i 7 Boglins" as "Mickey and the 7 Dupes" in the penultimate Gottfredson volume, and while I had my own qualms with it, that was at least a crime mystery. (As a serious sequel to the only genuinely good '50s Gottfredson serial, David Gerstein and I thought it should be printed somewhere.) I was never as bored with it as I was reading parts of Casty's stories in the aforementioned category. I couldn't imagine localizing the sea of text seen in the Eurasia stories...
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jun 24, 2018 19:25:31 GMT
Well, I 7 boglings is a peculiar story, some kind of experiment. As far as I know, Faccini completely wrote and drew the whole part 1, whereas Casty completely wrote and drew the whole part 2. You can perceive it: the first part is so weird, and ultimately looks like an unjustified long intro to the real story, which is Casty's part.
The story that the two actually wrote together from page one is Topolino e il dottor Tick-Tock, based on a plot idea conceived by Faccini years before. This one is really and purposely developed in the strip style of the Walsh era, like the first Scarpa used to do.