EVERYBODY: Up an' At 'Em, Out an' Buy 'Em!!!
THE DATE: Wednesday, January 14, 2026.
THE PLACE: Your Local Comic Shop - or the Online Provider of Your Choice.
THE THING TO BUY (Without Fail): MICKEY MOUSE (Fantagraphics) #2 - Legacy No. 332!
Here it is, just so we're "on the same page"... or COVER, as it were! ...And WHAT A COVER IT IS!
Accept no substitutes... Unless you somehow failed to get MICKEY MOUSE (Fantagraphics) #1 - Legacy No. 331 back in November!
Then, it's okay to get 'em both!
BUT THIS ONE'S GONNA BE A GOODY! (...and, as the translator and dialogue writer for this great Italian story, I oughta know!)
A perfect melding of three of the comics Mickey Mouse's greatest creators: Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson, and Casty!
Walsh and Gottfredson, of course, for The Rhyming Man from the amazing newspaper strip continuity "The Atombrella and the Rhyming Man" ... and Casty for his time-exploring documentarian Uma as seen in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 713-714 (2010)! And writer Francesco Vacca does a fantastic job of bringing those two worlds of different eras together!
When writing the American English script for this special story, and in order to lend authenticity to the story and fidelity to the original creators, I read both original stories by Walsh and Gottfredson and by Casty and studied them carefully before proceeding.
I wanted to get everything right and, once you read The Rhyming Man's first line, you'll *know* I did my homework! It's truly an HONOR to work with these characters and, especially as we have a (hopefully friendly) competition with other publishers, editor David Gerstein (the "Secret Weapon" that those "other guys" don't have) and I do everything we can to make these the best Disney comics they can be!
We hope you'll all agree, once you read MICKEY MOUSE (Fantagraphics) #2 - Legacy No. 332!
Oh, The Rhyming Man, he has a plan,
To throw the whole world a curve.
With sinister rhyme, he'll wreak havoc with time.
Does this villain ever have nerve!
Mickey, Goofy, and Uma, they know it's no rumor,
And set out to stop this fiend cold.
Will they succeed, or will he do the deed?
Let's hope it's the Rhymer who'll fold!
...Oh, and do ya think could I call you "Rhymey"? ...No? Oh, well...
