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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Hi
everyone!<BR><BR>Dim:<BR>>> Donald is certainly not as great a character
as Scrooge but there is no<BR>>> reason to turn him into the shallow man
he is in stories like "Guardians of<BR>>> the Lost
Library".<BR><BR>Agreed. I like Don Rosa's funny depiction of him (the
whole TV-watching throughout the "Lost Library" adventure is hilarious-- "flip
and bursts into flames", he he :)) ; or "Incident at McDuck Tower": plain
slapstick), but I don't quite like his nearly always being treated like
that.<BR><BR>Nearly. He's not always such an insignifcant no-good foil in Don
Rosa's stories. Even if it's the nephews who do all the job, he does go
after the crooks and searches for the precious artefacts in "The Lost Charts
of Columbus". And he is quite heroic in "Return to Xanadu".<BR><BR>As far
as the character is concerned, my favorite Donald stories by Don Rosa are "Super
Snooper Strikes Again" (that's the correct title, right? I only have it in
French :( ) and expecially "The Duck That Never Was". The former has Don Rosa's
scientific hallmark and this nice ending, and the latter is a great "what if".
Both show that, flawed and clumsy as he is, Donald is important-- even vital to
the balance of the Ducks' universe.<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Olivier</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>