About G. Blum and reference points

[Kriton Kyrimis]

SIGVALD:

> Barks-style stories should IMO
> take place in the mid-1950's +/- a decade.

Daniel answered this for me quite eloquently. The only thing that I want to 
add is that I think that the above statement helps one understand your point 
of view. The non-Barks stories that you want to read are Barks pastiches, 
i.e., stories that are written in Barks' style, and at their best would be 
stories that Barks might have written himself during his prime. People who 
disagree with you want to read non-Barks stories that Barks himself might have 
written had he kept writing to this day, never getting tired of working with 
the times, and always staying in his prime. As Daniel pointed put, Barks kept 
adapting to the times, so, had he been active in our times, he would probably 
have produced stories similar to the ones the best of today's writers are 
producing today.

Both points of view are valid, irreconcilable though they may be. And although 
  I do not share your view in this particular instance, I can certainly 
understand it: being somewhat of a Sherlock Holmes fan (where, as with duck 
comics, their is life after Conan Doyle), I cannot imagine reading a Holmes 
story taking place in any time other than Victorian times. I don't know if 
there is such a beast, but I gather that there is at least one movie where 
Sherlock Holmes helps fight the nazis!

Now the only problem with this analysis is that Don's stories are clearly a 
lot more than mere Barks pastiches!

	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
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