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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To Anders Christian:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>>Last year among the most popular stories were Don Rosa's "The Treasure of the Ten Avatars" and "Escape from Forbidden Valley"< As if there's no history in those... Ten Avatars! ;-)<</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Right you are, so let's be more precise: It's not the stories with any history-elements that are unpopular, but the historical Lo$-stories.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>Ha! Really shows how different readers are, huh? I for one think they're disgusting. and some other Barks-fans has told me that too... Why is it that barks has to be reworked into Manga, children books like they did in DK 1987 or into Ducktales. Aren't they perfect as they are?<</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">That's the whole point: Our young and our old readers ARE different. The young ones love the new Manga-stories, whereas we received a lot of critic from our older readers. IMO the Barks stories ARE perfect as they are, and I don't like their Manga-rework so much either. But that doesn't count. I'm not working for the German Weekly to please myself, but to do the best for the majority of our readers.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>BTW The super-action-comics seems to be the only Barks-comics in you MM, that is sad to me. But I guess the german public doesn't like Barks in MM? Only in albums then.<</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Oh, no! There still are regular Barks stories in our MM (f. e. "Watchman over Silk" in MM 02/00, "The Brave Stationmaster" in MM 04/00), and they are generally still very popular. The only reason to published only Barks-Mangas was that the many available non-Barks-Mangas were altered Weekly-stories that had been published only two or three years ago, whereas the original Barks-stories hadn't been published in the Weekly for at least eight years. </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Joachim</FONT>
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