Critcizing Barks

Matthew Williams kingofduckburg at apptechnc.net
Tue Apr 6 14:50:08 CEST 2004


Klartekst wrote:

>BTW, my LEAST favourite Braks story is "Interplanetary Postman". Does
>anybody else have a nomination for "worst Barks story ever"?

"Interplanetary Postman" is one of my favorites!  I love the absurd levels
it reaches!  Scrooge is sooooo cheap in the story too!  "Stooge McDock"!
Great comedy!

As far as worst story...  Are the seventies Woodchuck stories eligible?
Nearly all of them strike me as unrelentingly bland.  I think "Hall of the
Mermaid Queen" is seriously underdeveloped..  Honestly, I think Barks is
bland at his worst, though.  I've never read a Barks story that I found
offensively bad.  The only bit of Barks art that I ever felt turned off by
is his cover to "The Doom Diamond."  Scrooge looks really weird to me on
that cover.  Unlike a lot of fans, I like the look of the ducks in the later
years in general.

Matt

Oh!  Do any of you remember the rabbit eggs story?  THAT is the one Barks
story that I find offensively bad.  Donald and Scrooge doesn't realize that
rabbits don't lay eggs until the end?  Ugh!




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