My B'More Con Report

[tth2]

Kind of like coming onto a Renaissance art message board and saying "Wow, I just checked out that Sistine Chapel thingie, and that Michelangelo dude kicks serious butt!"

[Red Hook]

You should encourage the ignorant when they stumble across a diamond, not berate them! There are many more blockheads out there who are duck-ignorant. I'm glad I saw the light.

 

Praise Jesus!

[tth2]

You should encourage the ignorant when they stumble across a diamond, not berate them! There are many more blockheads out there who are duck-ignorant. I'm glad I saw the light.

It's my nature to mock the ignorant.

 

But I'm happy that you've discovered the Ducks, no matter how belatedly. Carl Barks is the greatest comic book storyteller ever, and his art was awesome too. It would've been too much to ever expect a worthy successor, but Don Rosa was all that and more, a superb storyteller and wonder ful artist too. And, because he was such a student of Barks' work, his Duck universe is actually more consistent and more self-referential than Barks'.

 

The great thing is you can pick up Barks' stories on the cheap, because from the late-60s on, all the Gold Key Duck books basically just reprinted his classic stories over and over. I wouldn't imagine reader copies would be all that expensive. And the Rosa comics for Gladstone aren't expensive either.

[nik]

One of my most pleasantly surprising pickups from Baltimore.........

 

 

First of all, let me assure you.....Red Hook is NOT into funny animals, Disney per se, etc.....but I picked this up

 

a) because Don Rosa was sitting three feet from me in the next booth.

 

and

 

b) I wanted to get something for my 7 year old nephew Austin.

 

So I picked up two copies and ......

 

have been knocked out by the level of ambitious story telling and the mind-boggling level of detail in the art. WOW.

 

Comments? I know Foolkiller picked up a copy too! Good move, Gemstone!

 

Love the Ducks , this is a very entertaining read with some great art.

[HouseofComics.Com]

But I'm happy that you've discovered the Ducks, no matter how belatedly. Carl Barks is the greatest comic book storyteller ever, and his art was awesome too. It would've been too much to ever expect a worthy successor, but Don Rosa was all that and more, a superb storyteller and wonder ful artist too. And, because he was such a student of Barks' work, his Duck universe is actually more consistent and more self-referential than Barks'.

 

Very well said. Out of all the geniuses, I think Barks is the best guy the field has produced.

 

I'm a big fan of the Carl Barks library reprint albums that came out around 1990-1995. Beautifully recolored, oversized, and chronological. The first 20 Uncle Scrooge and the first 10 Donald Duck Adventures are probably the best bang for the buck and most "classic."

 

Marc