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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">As a new member of the group, I just wanted to hear what all of you thought about <I>DuckTales</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know that many Barks purists have a deep and abiding hatred of the show, but I still have quite a soft spot for the series.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I recognize that Barks’s original comics are superior (duh), but I believe the show (at its best) still has merit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know I would have never bought my first Disney comic book if I hadn’t become fascinated with Scrooge from watching the series.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The show introduced the world of the Ducks to me, and I would have never discovered Barks without it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Furthermore, I think Launchpad is an incredible creation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He’s a funny, original character.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He’s not just a moron or a buffoon, and he’s not just a one-dimensional hero character either.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Incidentally, I was curious if Launchpad ever appeared in comics outside of the United States.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know William Van Horn did some interesting things with the character post-DuckTales, but have any writers or artists used him outside of the DuckTales and Darkwing Duck stories created in the late eighties and early nineties?</P>
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