Who really "sparkles"?

[Gary Leach]

Theresa,

> But that all comes back to what you are used to as the original form,
> doesn't it? The original Asterix was made by a duo. Original Rosa stuff
> is a one-person job.

Asterix was also created by that same duo. However, the original form 
of the comic book Disney ducks was given to us by Carl Barks, in 
stories still regarded in many quarters as unequalled in any genre. So 
we must already scribe an important demarcation between the "original 
forms" of the work of Goscinny and Uderzo and Don Rosa  - the former 
were original from the start, while Don has been going on from where an 
arguably greater creator left off.

More to the point of the discussion from which your question arose, is 
Don's 'spark' something special, in a way that the 'spark' in Goscinny 
and Uderzo, as collaborators, wasn't, solely because he is one man and 
they were two? Well, one man certainly embodies a different creative 
dynamic than two men, so I suppose there is something to that. But two 
men embody a creative dynamic that is just as distinct, and just as 
unfathomable, as that residing in one. Inspiration, in the end, comes 
out through whatever agencies it requires.

Gary