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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 31, 2015 18:32:04 GMT -5
I might have to try Mickey... maybe when the trade hits. I've really only read the Ducks. Funnily enough, all the Uncle Scrooge stories came from Donald Duck comics.
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Post by shaxper on Aug 31, 2015 18:50:36 GMT -5
I e-mailed a letter to IDW tonight. I've never been a letter writer, but I started when Boom! got the Disney titles (got that letter published without even realizing an e-mail could end up getting published), and I sent this one to IDW tonight. Apparently, Disney fires me up in a way that other books don't:
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Post by shaxper on Sept 24, 2015 19:38:24 GMT -5
Finally read Mickey Mouse #2 today. It was just ho-hum. Truly disappointing to begin the series with a Casty story and then downshift into so average a tale with issue #2. Not particularly funny, disappointingly predicatable, and utterly lacking in characterization and excitement.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 24, 2015 19:42:24 GMT -5
Just saw that the newest issue of Mickey features a Casty story again. Thank the Big Eared One! I was just about to cancel my pull for this title, too.
Edit: #6 is a Casty story too. I'm beginning to wonder if my e-mail to IDW is responsible for all this??
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Post by shaxper on Sept 29, 2015 15:31:02 GMT -5
Currently reading Mickey Mouse #3. I'm a big defender of Carl Fallberg. Some of his stories were downright inventive, as well as full of endearing characterizations, but the story arc of his that they picked for this issue shows none of this.
I honestly cannot figure out what IDW's criteria is for selecting these stories.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 0:12:24 GMT -5
I haven't tried any yet. A little disappointed with the feedback so far. I would probably like to pick up a trade if it's priced right though.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 30, 2015 15:02:08 GMT -5
I haven't tried any yet. A little disappointed with the feedback so far. I would probably like to pick up a trade if it's priced right though. The Scrooges have been pretty solid. Pick up Mickey #1, #4, or #6 (when it comes out). All Andrea Castellan stories, and he is possibly on the level of Carl Barks in my opinion. Truly awesome stuff. |
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Post by wickedmountain on Oct 5, 2015 13:18:43 GMT -5
I need to check these out I am wayyyyyy behind on comics been in a Lull recently  |
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Post by senatortombstone on Oct 25, 2015 20:47:28 GMT -5
I have bought all of the issues released - and when possible, all cover variants - but have yet to read them. I have always been a sucker for Disney comics. A couple weeks ago, in a $2.00 bin, I picked up Uncle Scrooge 310 and a few other Gladstone Uncle Scrooge issues from Gladstone's (not Gemstone) album format issues - obviously, the seller did not have a clue. I had no idea that so many Disney stories were printed in Europe. It sounds like Disney could issue a moratorium on new stories and still release decades worth of new content to U.S. readers. That's amazing!
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Post by sitcomics on Nov 15, 2015 23:40:59 GMT -5
Very helpful guide shaxper! I'll pick up a Mickey or two next time I'm at my lcs.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 22, 2015 23:22:55 GMT -5
I really liked A. Montebank, the criminal engineer and the 'Bigger Operator'... great story. (from #6). The Money Vault into a Money Pyramid story because John Rockerduck thought it blocked the view to his seaside property was pretty great, too (from #7).
I didn't love the Duck Avenger (DD #6).. especially the art... all the Ducks had huge behinds and made them look like Weebles.
There's also a Carl Barks Duck story in the 50th anniversary Disney Comics and Story celebration issue.
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Post by ramapith on Mar 17, 2016 1:08:03 GMT -5
Edit: #6 is a Casty story too. I'm beginning to wonder if my e-mail to IDW is responsible for all this?? Admittedly, no—we'd planned lots of Casty from the start. But hey... after a break for Romano Scarpa in Mickey #7-9, both Casty and Eurasia Toft are back in Mickey #10 this week, along with a Lars Jensen/Marco Rota Pegleg Pete backup that we think is pretty special, too. Our criteria for picking "The Mysterious Crystal Ball"—the story you didn't care for in #3—was just that it was an early Murry-drawn serial that hadn't been reprinted in modern times, and on a short list of those for which I'd received the most requests over the years. It wasn't my favorite either, but we hope it satisfied somebody! (As co-editor and compilation guy, I'd like to make sure the modern, Gottfredson-inspired Mickey of Casty, Scarpa, Noel Van Horn and others remains our mainstay; but I do like to give nostalgists an occasional one-issue thrill.) |
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Post by shaxper on Mar 17, 2016 9:39:24 GMT -5
Edit: #6 is a Casty story too. I'm beginning to wonder if my e-mail to IDW is responsible for all this?? Admittedly, no—we'd planned lots of Casty from the start. But hey... after a break for Romano Scarpa in Mickey #7-9, both Casty and Eurasia Toft are back in Mickey #10 this week, along with a Lars Jensen/Marco Rota Pegleg Pete backup that we think is pretty special, too. Our criteria for picking "The Mysterious Crystal Ball"—the story you didn't care for in #3—was just that it was an early Murry-drawn serial that hadn't been reprinted in modern times, and on a short list of those for which I'd received the most requests over the years. It wasn't my favorite either, but we hope it satisfied somebody! (As co-editor and compilation guy, I'd like to make sure the modern, Gottfredson-inspired Mickey of Casty, Scarpa, Noel Van Horn and others remains our mainstay; but I do like to give nostalgists an occasional one-issue thrill.) So cool of you to drop in. Thanks for the insights! So is it safe to say there's more Casty coming after #10? I'll be honest. I'm keeping Mickey on my pull just for Casty. I tried the Scarpa stuff and wasn't as impressed as I expected to be. Maybe there's better Scarpa material coming? It would be fun to follow a creator run in real-time continuity, issue after issue, instead of getting excerpts of the run by reprinting specific stories. I'd like to see how their characters and themes evolve over time, and I think I could have more patience with Scarpa or Van Horne if I knew that was the direction your team was taking. Another severely underrated Mickey run you may want to look at is the Carl Fallberg backups he did for Walt Disney Comics & Stories in the '50s. They were all three parters and, while some were quite "blah," others were quite imaginative and fun. I specifically recall one about a vanishing train and another about a pirate hideout behind a waterfall. They might make for good B story fare, not headliners. Any hints you feel like dropping about future content? I'm all ears! Thanks much for dropping in! |
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Post by ramapith on Mar 17, 2016 11:49:28 GMT -5
Yes—more Casty coming, though more Scarpa too: together, the two are easily our most popular Mickey talents (though that doesn't mean we'll never feature others).
You're actually the first reader I've heard in ages to be lukewarm on Scarpa's Mickeys, so I'm not sure how easy you'll be to satisfy. For me, "The Chirikawa Necklace" was absolutely one of the greats.
Re: Fallberg WDCS serials (and here I speak only for my own opinion!), your experience with "Crystal Ball" mirrors mine with much of Fallberg's output: I remember them, like everyone seems to, as being atmospheric and charming, but on a re-read I'm less impressed: the dull and rather cold characterization of Mickey himself can be a drag on the most interesting plot idea, and it's especially damaging when Mickey already has an undeserved bad rap—with the general public—as a personality-less corporate mascot.
There is also the problem that a lot of Fallberg stories feature embarrassingly dated portrayals of foreigners, for which I could make excuses in a collectors' hardback but which Disney understandably would prefer we avoid in all-ages monthly comics.
FWIW, I've found that a lot of Fallberg and Murry Mickey fans seem to have grown up with their serials at a time when no other Mickey stories were available. These fans genuinely love the stuff, but sometimes the love seems to be for the comforting predictability of the Scooby-Doo-like story format: generic straight man and funny man go vacationing in a picturesque locale, bump into crooks pulling a job or faking some supernatural phenomena, bust them... lather, rinse and repeat. (-:
For me, this is the opposite of the depth and personality-based humor that Carl Barks utilized in the exact same magazine—and maybe that's why, when pressed to actually name their favorite character, Fallberg/Murry Mickey "fans" are actually almost always Barks Donald fans first.
As years' worth of sales figures have now shown me, readers—especially NEW readers—who've grown up with a more interesting Mickey don't suffer Fallberg gladly. As an IDW editor, I want to see our Mickey book sell to the same readers who enjoy the wild new Mickey cartoons: as different as they may be from any period of the comics, at least his strong personality comes through.
This doesn't mean we'll never use any Fallberg, of course! We did run the three-part WDCS serial "Ridin' the Rails" just four months ago. But it explains why his exposure may be relatively limited.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 17, 2016 17:45:21 GMT -5
That makes sense. I had no prior context for "good" Mickey stories when I discovered Fallberg in my twenties. That being said, I admit to enjoying flat goody goody heroes who never falter from time to time. Fallberg works for me because, while Mickey is relatively flat, Goody serves as a decent contrast, and (in the best of those stories) the plot and setting take the true center stage. It's true that they may not be for everyone. I can see that. I still love them  |
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