Evility (if that's even a word)

[Olaf Solstrand]

Great e-mailaddress, Matthew! May I support Rich's request that you send your 
messages in plain text? (Hey, don't worry - everybody does errors in the 
beginning, and this is a tiny, tiny one.) Well, anyhow I actually managed to 
read it this time, so why not answer.

Now, to the good, the bad and the evil. It may be a little black and white, but 
I've always thought of Glomgold as evil... His first story may not be a very 
good example of that, as Scrooge does after him practically everything he does, 
but in the second story (I assume that was "The Money Champ"?) I never had any 
doubt this was a bad, bad villain. As we saw: Scrooge ran honest competition, 
Glomgold used dirty tricks. Does this make him "evil"? Well, in the black-and-
white world, it certainly does. At the same time, naturally, nobody is 100% 
good and nobody is 100% evil. But in the Safari story, I had no doubt. In that 
story, Scrooge was shown as the honest businessman trying to get from point A 
to point B - Glomgold throws bombs at him. I had no doubt. Scrooge was good, 
Glomgold was evil.

Naturally, I'm what both Barks and Matthew would call a foreigner, so I may 
have a twisted view on the word "evil". What is evility? Again, if that's even 
a word?

If being evil is what I think it is, Glomgold is evil.



Olaf the Blue