<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Olivier,</DIV><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">…the worst story, is "Ring Thrice and I'll Clobber You, My Lad" (D98058, Mark Shaw & Bancells), where Daisy becomes a bully who kicks and beats Donald every other page, and it whole leads to an appalling climax where the "only" solution to the problem is for Donald to beat Daisy to a pulp (to exorcize her), hitting her first with tons of food, but then using a giant hammer, punching her repeatedly in the head, taking her by the feet and smashing her against the hard rocky ground-- and then the "cured" Daisy tramples him and kicks him with a board.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">I cannot understand how such a story could ever be accepted by the Disney powers, and how Gemstone could publish such trash-- I'm sorry for the creators, but there's not other word for it; I am not a prude Dr Wertham, but there is no justifying so much senseless and pretty graphic violence (it's not a "whirlwind" fight with only onomatopae, you clearly see Donald punch Daisy several time) against a female character.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's fine that you didn't like the story - by the sound of you pretty much loathed it - but am I to understand that you've never read other stories where Daisy has bullied Donald and beaten him silly over some real or imagined slight? I did not find this story at all exceptional in that respect.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>