Mickey: a boring character?

[DGE@ECN.egmont.com]

	Hey again Olivier!

>For one thing, the number of  characters makes for diversity & variations:
>Donald as a parental figure, Donald as Scrooge's bumbling employee,
>Scrooge vs Rockerduck, ... Whereas on the other hand you can only have
>Mickey and Goofy / Minnie / the police. New characters have been created,
>but still.

	How about Mickey and Horace? Nothing new about that classic pairing,
At Egmont, we're doing this more and more often these days.
	And Mickey vs. Montmorency Rodent. This can be incredibly funny,
though it's more frequent in the 1970s comics and the new TV cartoons than
in Egmont's stories (as of yet).

>Then of course, the ducks have flaws, whereas Mickey is conceived as
>the perfect hero.

	No matter how many times he's been *shown* as this, he was not
conceived this way. It's just how he tended to be *portrayed* from the
1960s-1980s. An editorial decision to portray Mickey this way has nothing to
do with who Mickey was at the start, or with what he is capable of being.
	At all times when he's been genuinely popular, Mickey has had plenty
of flaws, the most obvious one being how he overenthusiastically looks for
"adventure"... thrilling situations that turn out to be more
complex/dangerous than he had figured. Not because he's foolhardy - just
because he's got the instincts of a rambunctious kid, regardless of how
sharp his mind may be.

	Thanks, BTW, for your kind words about my stories, at least those
that you've seen. Believe you me, though, if you have heard they're good,
you ought to read a few of my *duds*!
	Meanwhile, there are *numerous* talented people who lately are
writing, or have written, genuinely *classic* Mickey stories for Egmont over
the last few years.

	Best wishes,
	David