Which comic do you like more?

[Ole Reichstein Nielsen]

Paolo:
> I don't like it!!! I don' like it at all!!
>
> OK, I suppose you had enough of it... but still, I'd like to have some
> feedback from you all, to check if I'm the same old rambling grumphy, or
> if *we* all are the sam old rampling grumphies!!! ;-)

Being a regular subscriber to nine of the ten titles in the survey -
as well as being an old, rambling grumpy too - I must admit that I
actually like ALL of the books! But naturally, if I was an Italian
with four other reprints of Scarpa's "Paperetta Yè-Yé" story in "I
Classici" #285 on the shelf, I might not be as happy with one more.
Which may be why the reprint titles don't do so well in the poll.

Topolino topping the chart with about 130 pages of new comics every
week for only 3,300 lire (~$1.50) isn't really too surprising. In fact
the relatively expensive and currently very infreqeuent Maestri Disney
(which only has very little new material) is doing too well compared
to its relatively low circulation. But then again, anyone bothering to
find your web page may be more Disney-addicted and likely to spend the
huge sum of 15,000 lire (~$6.75) on a prestige format book with no more
comic pages than Topolino. 12-year old "ragazzi" don't, and Italy is one
country which still publishes Disney comics both for children and adults.

I didn't vote in your election, and I honestly wouldn't know where to
punch my hole. I can't help wondering if the result had been different,
if you'd been allowed to rank the titles instead of only placing one vote:
maybe almost everybody thought Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine was second
best? You could also have asked which single story or issues the reader
had liked best in the last year.

My impression is that the result reflects the sales curves - the "party
line" - more closely than an unbiased comparison of pros and cons of each
title; how many of the voters have read one of each book, I wonder?

But that's the curse of democratic votes: half the result is given by how
you draw up the ballot and the rest is left to the random mood swings of
a semi-ignorant voter corps. And then there's the counting... ;-)


-- Ole