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<DIV>Maybe it's due in part to the wonderfully bouncy Jippes artwork, but I look
forward to reading all of the Barks Woodchucks tales. "Hound of the Moaning
Hills" was hilarious and scary at the same time, and I liked the "New Zoo Brews
Ado" story as well. </DIV>
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<DIV>Lars wrote:</DIV>
<DIV>>José and Panchito were absent from the books for years simply
because<BR>>nobody used them. A week or so ago, David Gerstein posted here on
the<BR>>DCML that Launchpad had been actively "killed off" when the
publishers<BR>>realized he was unpopular amongst readers. Your two examples
are totally<BR>>incomparable.</DIV>
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<DIV>I see what you mean; though it seems that Launchpad has more fans (at least
here on the DCML) than Egmont thinks. I've lost count of the posters who
have said they'd like to see a return of Launchpad. On the subject of Jose and
Panchito, I understand that Paul Murry drew a Jose Carioca comic strip for
several years; I've always wanted to see some of those stories, but I guess
they're not covered under Gladstone's new non-comic strip license?</DIV>
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