Stranger Than Fiction

Gerd Syllwasschy gsy at megatel.de
Mon Jun 24 09:24:17 CEST 2002


> From: "Frank Bubacz" <frankbubacz at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Stranger Than Fiction
> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:04:41 +0200
> 
> It seems to me that, in the original unedited ten-pager, there was more to
> see of the police and also of the psychiatrist. Let's call this "instinctive
> guesswork"...  ;-)

I agree. And the alligator may have been good for some additional
panels, too. Ever asked yourself how in the world they managed to get
Old Satchel Face into the emisser?

> However, there's one thing irritating me: The panel in the third row of the
> sixth page looks to me as if it should be at the end of the page, because to
> me it depicts a bigger suspense factor than the panel actually ending the
> page. At least in the visual sense.

You may be right. Come to think of it, Gyro's remark about the storm
getting fierce in the first panel of that page seems somewhat uncalled
for. Maybe it was preceded by a panel of Donald fighting his way against
the wind. (Yes, I noticed there is some rain visible in the background.
And yes, I noticed Barks was building up the storm pictorially on the
preceding pages. Nevertheless, I'm not sure he would have relied on the
reader remembering this after two pages playing mostly in-house, with
hardly any storm.)

On the other hand, I tend to think that the editors would have prefered
to confine their cuts to a single place if possible. Otherwise it would
have meant too much extra work for the layouter. Remember the other
9-page WDC story, The Madcap Mariner, where they seem to have omitted
one complete page without caring much for continuity. But I'm not 100 %
sure of this, either.

Gerd



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