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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps this question of success or not success in
regard to the sales is an important matter only for the people who
manage the comics business, a company needs money for paying the bill and
the salaried employees, and that is normal, if the profit is lacking, the
company dies; but concerning the point of view of the readers, personally i
don't care if the story i read is only read by few people and if the others
prefer to go to the movies or playing football according to their tastes,
the only criteria at the end being to enjoy good stories with good script and
good drawing, and if that sells just a little amount of copies, that
doesn't bother me at all.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I will add two words about the lack of
characterization of Mickey : i think this is a condition of the Mickey's stories
based above all on the intrigues as i said in 'Mickey buddies 4 : size of the
comics - Scarpa § Gottfredson again' ; too much characterization of
Mickey would turn the stories of him into vaudeville stories where the
intrigues between different people personalities are predominant and would add a
psychological dimension to the stories; in fact, Mickey needs to be a kind of
'empty' character in order to build good intrigues and stories, especially in
the detective / adventures ones, the intrigues and the plot must be
predominant over a too important characterization of him.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>P.S : just a correction in Mickey Part 5 Time and comics :
'accointances' doesn't exist in english, this is a french word, the english
version of the word is 'similarities', in plus, i forgot to mention two
excellent italian stories with the Blot : 'Mickey contre les pois sauteurs' and
'Mickey et la langouste noire', sorry if i don't give away the italian titles
but this is late here and i'm too tired for searching them, i want to go to
bed!</FONT></DIV>
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