Universes and Barks

[Kai Saarto]

Søren Krarup Olesen wrote:

> KAI + STEVEN:
>
>> As a kid I always wanted to read about Scrooge's youth in
>> chronological order. I wanted there to be some kind of structure. I
>> wanted Barks to do one and hoped that there was this one big story.
>
>
> Perhaps this is where we differ so much. I've never wanted or wished for
> anything like that to be written by Barks or anyone else.

I guess you are after something here. Perhaps this "inner craving" for 
order in things is one of the main reasons why some people like Rosa so 
much. And the very reason why some don't like this aspect of his stories.

> Don Rosa keeps sending us messages about him being innocent, since he
> only posed the idea(s), and that he is not responsible of his
> backslappers' opinions. This is okay of course. Yet, little mice like
> Steven keeps popping up, fully equipped in armour and ready for full
> defense. Hey, grow up kids!

Steven a mouse? A you referring to mr. Rowe? Now I am baffled, he said 
hardly anything on the subject. Growing up might be good for many of us, 
but not too much. Some might think that reading comics is childish!

> This is about Disney comics and not only about praising Don Rosa (which
> is okay to a certain extent). I am not the one to "protect" DCML from
> such things to happen, but sometimes things get a bit "angular" here...

This makes me think about something. Has anyone EVER done here anything 
else but praised Barks? Everyone else seems to get some criticism here 
from time to time. Is he so big he's untouchable? I am not about to say 
that he is not the best ever,  but it just hit me that everyone on the 
planet seems to love him. No controversiality there. After reading some 
interviews in Donald Ault´s book I got the feeling he was perhaps not 
the sweetest man ever alive in his personal life (but no worse than the 
next guy) - but his work is just so great that it is hard to say 
anything bad about it. What sayest thou?
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