Disney-comics digest #717.

Mike Pohjola mikep at freenet.hut.fi
Sun Jul 9 23:53:23 CEST 1995



DANIEL 2:
>Of course I can send you xeroxes of Marco Polo (of the CBL), but 
>please don't wait for it. I already promised Jakob Soderbaum and 
>Danny Coenen some xeroxes/comics, but I still haven't got the time.

	Yeah, and that would probably be too much trouble for you. Is the
year-old Hollandise (sp?) issue still out? In some second-hand shops perhaps?

>Do you have all Barks other Disney-stories? Jakob said that the CBL 
>is being reprinted, maybe that sounds interesting to you? It might be 
>very expensive, but to me it was worth every cent.

	No, I don't have all the other Barks stories. And yes, the reprinting
of CBL does sound _very_ interesting to me, but the problem is that I do not
have that many cents :) I don't know if a person can become rich by making
comics, but I intend to try by currently writing a long BB adventure, which
I hope will give me some money if I'll ever get it to the Geillusteerde Pres
(somebody said they're looking for scripts to non-disney stories). Does
anybody know about the probability of them liking my work? The story which
with I'm working right now is kinda big farce with everybody chasing each
other. I'm writing it in English, because my Flamish is poor. Non-excistent
in fact.

>What could have been more logical for the story itself is that the 
>albatross could indeed have carried along only a microphone, thus 
>skipping the whole button-parts.

	Yup. But then Barks couldn't have made that many pages with Beagleboys
who were in a major role in the story. Or should've been. 

>Well, I think it's a nice illustration for the theme of the story. 
>The "horse stuff" was something that *didn't* bother me.

	I just thought it was like enhancing this story with some niceties
from old Scrooge adventures.

>Yeah, I also thought of that! You're right. But the whole Troje-thing 
>is also a very unique way to re-use it, so this didn't bother me too 
>much.

	True. It was more like the BB were using the lion as a "Trojan horse"
so to say.

> Is there an old Barks story in which the Beagle Boys are fond of prunes?
> (Sorry, but I can't remember it now.) It sounds very familiar to me.

	More than one, I'm sure, but the first one was the one with big
human-like robots terrorizing Duckburg.

>Is that so? I didn't notice the ship having those not used abilities 
>while reading the story. If that's right, this is another fact that 
>should have ommitted from the story.

	While HDL were in the tailor's, Scrooge introduced those abilities
to Donald.

>Barks made it himself too easy in constructing the basic story-line, 
>while making it himself too hard by filling in all those odd details.

	Right. Nothing (except treasure-finding) really happened before the
final page where the BB re-appeared.

--

	Mike - The Finnish Trekkie



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