+Postage Due+Disney-comics digest #78.

Don Rosa 72260.2635 at CompuServe.COM
Mon Aug 23 14:55:31 CEST 1993


	Geir:
	Well, I do treat a few of the "facts" that $crooge remembered
from his past as exaggerations in order to "ignore" them, but sometimes
the facts come in a flashback which is harder to explain away, unless I
say this is a view from $crooge's faulty memory rather than us viewing
the actual past. But again... I don't analyze it so much -- if I can't
get it to work, I just skip it. This Miss Penny Wise business is tricky
and sorta irritating to deal with since it was just a tossed-off story
element in a few panels of a gag-story, which I'm not even sure the
editor didn't stick in after the fact. If $crooge says "She'll RUIN
me!", I can see that as an exaggereation; when he says she has a note
which will enable her to foreclose on his entire fortune, that is a VERY
SPECIFIC statement, and doesn't sound like an exaggeration. I choose to
ignore the whole thing... or I'll just say that it's something that
happened after the events of my series, and let somebody else deal with
it.
	Wilmer Rivers seems to sum up my attitude about the Duck
continuity just right, and I'll try to remember how he phrases it in the
future. Yes, I see current stories as many possible stories which stem
from the same past history, but none of which take place in the same
timeline. I like to be arrogant enough to think my stories take place in
Barks' past timeline... but I'd rather not think they take place in the
timeline of all those stories throughout decades of DAISY AND DONALD or
BEAGLE BOYS VS. UNCLE $CROOGE or all those other awful Gold Key comics.





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