…Or, am *I* just “wishing I could do a wonderful post” about
IDW’s landmark UNCLE SCROOGE # 34, the 70th Anniversary issue?
This issue was late… VERY LATE, for reasons I know not why!
My Blog Post on this issue is late – but will NOT be VERY
LATE, for reasons I DO know why!
Lots of unexpected things have been thrown in my direction…
most of them good, I must quickly add!
But, this finds me in the position, once again, of being (…all together
now) “Horrifically Busy”!
But, unlike some o’ those other Blogs that just leave you
hanging, I’m here to let you know that the post IS coming – and that, unlike UNCLE SCROOGE # 34 itself, it won’t
be 4 or 5 months late!
Meanwhile, I’m here for comments, if not for the more
effort-intensive task of writing about and scanning images from the issue! And, if the delay persists, I will let loose
with one or more of the many posts I have “saved-up” for such occasions, all in
the interest of keeping this Blog fresh – and hopefully giving you a reason to
return regularly!
8 comments:
I think your script was looking to add a moment where the reader feels like they're reading Scrooge's mind on what's happening. Barks notably did that with Donald in "Luck of The North" and "The Gilded Man". Rosa would often create a moment for Scrooge to make a cinematic soliloquy of sorts in his stories, though none ever topped (imho) the moment with Donald trying to open the gate in "Return To Xanadu". In "Wishing Crown", there's that moment when Scrooge is sitting by the fire in the cave..it's never brought up much that Scrooge is potentially risking the lives of his immediate family by putting them through life-threatening scrapes, but the fact that we're presented with a scenario in which Scrooge has doomed his family on his 70th Anniversary is...faintly hilarious in a twisted way. For a moment I thought this was gonna be like that story in the Donald Duck Adventures take-along (issue #2, I think), where all the money in the bin was turned to lead by magic and it just reversed itself to normal by the end without much happening in between. That's why I thought the presence of Malcolm was great and the idea of him possibly staying as a time-lost member of the Duck Family had me wondering if they were thinking of doing just that - that's not entirely an outrageous assumption, given how high-concept a lot of the Italian stories are. Here's hoping someone passes along a note to Vito Stabike suggesting a sequel where Donald meets Pintail Duck.
A crown hatching an egg?..I guess it said what it meant and meant what it said..hut sut raw, tiddle-a, duh-riddle-uh, and so on and so forth..
Well, Joe, just don't be late/
Late is a thing that we hate/
But your blog's a thing we love/
At The Society of The Rhyming Dove
So gentle a reminder, from the Rhyming Dove/
No quarrel. No nag. No push. No shove/
I can’t help but wonder, if you’ve heard/
That a Dove is not the sole rhyming bird/
There was a Road Runner. Has name was “Beep-Beep”/
Quite far from Chuck Jones, did this bird take a leap/
He, too, spoke in rhyme/
Most all of the time/
And tended to dwell/
In comics published by Dell/
Later, he made the move to Gold Key/
Thus, bringing his readers all sorts of glee/
But, by the time he got down to Whitman/
The rhyming became a tired old bit, man/
In subsequent comics, no more did he rhyme/
Giving his WRITERS an easier time/
These comics were more like the cartoon Road Runner/
And, while they were good, the old ones were fun-ner/
On Rhyming Birds, ‘twas a long time to spend/
But, thankfully for you, we’ve come to the end/
Tomorrow, gather round, be ye good folk or felon/
For another post on the great Walter Melon!
‘Rehab:
While your comments, as always, are simply divine/
I cannot take credit for something not mine/
Scrooge’s soliloquy, while unquestionably Neat-O/
Was the product of Mr. Stabile, first name Vito/
Stabile’s magnum opus, with its fire and sparks/
Stands with anything by Rosa or Barks/
So enamored am I, with this wonderful story/
From Vito Stabile, let me translate lots… uh, …more-y!
No more rhymes ‘yond this post, is my promise to you/
Much more rhyming like this, and my mind will be goo!
The next Stabile story I want you to script is...l'ultimo scrigno (the last treasure chest), a quest story starring Scrooge and Paperetta/Dickie. Please please please, O gods of Disney comics futures. It's the story that made Paperetta real in my headcanon. If not in an IDW comic book, then in a Fantagraphics Disney Masters Stabile volume!
I won't say anything here in detail about the story or script of WWC. I'll wait for that until you do the Real Post on the story. What I will say is this: this is in my opinion one of the very best Scrooge adventures written by someone other than Barks or Rosa. A while back someone on Feathery Society asked which newer writers of Scrooge stories we would recommend. This made me look through my grand list of all the Duck stories by someone other than Barks or Rosa which have entered my headcanon as "events that really happened in my Duckworld." These stories have to fit fairly well with the Barks&Rosa world, have the characters recognizably in character, be pleasingly drawn, and be interesting/funny/original/narratively satisfying enough to charm me on first reading and stick in my mind long after. But when I looked through this list, I realized that relatively few of the stories were Scrooge stories. LOTS more Donald stories, and many focusing on other characters. Out of approximately 130 stories, barely 20 could be called long (>15 pages) Scrooge adventures. What I'm saying is, it's rare for me to find a long Scrooge adventure written by someone other than Barks or Rosa that becomes "real" to me. With this story, Stabile goes to the top of the list of authors who have achieved that. On my personal list there are three by Rota, three by Kruse, two each by Chendi, Lustig and Stabile (WWC and l'ultimo scrigno), and one each by a bunch of other authors, Italian, Dutch and Scandinavian. But WWC is definitely in the top five. Probably the top three--among which there is no clear ranking.
Elaine:
I can’t speak for Stabile, but only yours truly/
Your comments are noted, and noted quite duly/
The wait has been long, for a story like this/
Even the good ones can be hit-and-miss/
When compared to this tale, that’s once in a lifetime/
So great it deserves its own drum-time and fife-time/
The band will play on, for Stabile and McDuck/
Their coming together is our very good luck/
My post on this epic may be more than a week off/
Oh, there’s Elmer Fudd, shooting Daffy Duck’s beak off/
That last one’s a cheat, because I’m so tired/
Ever try rhyming, when hopelessly mired?
Writing in rhyme can be quite a chore,
And to some of the readers can elicit a snore!
Even before Beep Beep, we readers were lucky,
To get rhyming stories from a bug name of Bucky!
Writing like this kinda makes me feel dizzy,
And reading it probably puts folks in a tizzy!
Adding concern on top of said “tizzy”/
We wonder if Joe’s not crazy… or, is he?
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