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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>Hi, my name's Garth Danielson. I have been reading
these emails with interest for a couple of month's and decided to write myself.
I have been a Disney comic fan for 40 plus years now and recently started
filling in the gaps in my collection, especially the Dell Giants that I had not
been able to find locally. Turns out eBay yields up much more material than I
can (should) buy all at once. Still, I gave my credit card a good beating
and wound up with some wonderful books. It's really nice to read the old comics,
something about the original versions appeals to me. That and there just aren't
reprints of a lot of material.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>Like so many here I am a Carl Barks fan and have been
since before I knew who he was. When I get a stack of comics I always put Uncle
Scrooge at the bottom to read last. Right now there are 14 Scrooge issues
waiting, waiting for me the finish the other comics I wanted to read first.
And first I wanted to finish the new graphic novel from Gemstone, World of the
Dragonlords. I work part time in a comic shop in Minneapolis, when I went to
work on Sunday it was sitting in my pull slot. A pull slot is what we call the
place pre-ordered comics go, it's just a comic box with plastic dividers labeled
with our customers names. DreamHaven Books and Comics is a mixed bag of comics
(mostly new), sf (new and old, cheap to very expensive), related movie
material and some comic smut and a few naughty books. It's the best shop in the
Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and one of the best you'd ever find.
Enough plugging. </FONT></DIV><FONT face=Garamond>
<DIV><BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond>I really enjoyed the World of the
Dragonlords. Byron Erickson has written a good adventure story. I think Carl
would approve. It captures the elements I like about the Barks adventure
stories. There is an interesting location, some jeopardy, some humor and a good
bunch of characters who work together to solve the problem. I liked the
alternate world setting, and especially liked the dragons. I really liked that
the boys had center place in the story. The art by Giorgio Cavazzano is really
wonderful, lively and fun. I particularly liked the battle chapter with no word
balloons, the story is in the pictures. All and all a really good read and one
to reread, or just look at the pretty pictures, and those dragons are pretty
cute.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>It's Labor Day here in the US and I am off work and
plan to read some of those stacked up recent purchases. I bet I'll have a
good day, especially when I got to those Scrooge's.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>Garth</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>P.S. I also have a blog that I natter on about movies
and comics and the odd other thing or two I like. <A
href="http://garth.typepad.com/">http://garth.typepad.com/</A></FONT><FONT
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