DCML Digest Issue 8

[Olivier]

- Don Rosa -


>>>>> And thanks for all your kind words about that story! (But I still
thought it
>>>>> was sorta on the lame side as regards humor and action

It was good, but the humor is indeed better in "Crown of the Crusader Kings"
for instance (I re-read it before launching into TOCOS/AFH)-- the Voodoo
dolls scene is one of  the most hilarious I've read; the action surely is
better in other stories as well.
Overal good, but not among the very best; the characterization, however, is
one of  the best such stories. The adventure really is a long setup to that
one final scene, and it sure pays off.


>>> -- the story *I* like is the one I finally sent in last week, "The
Prisoner of White Agony Creek".

I guess I'll be able to read it in 6-12 months...



>>>> But I expect many or most readers will think *that's* the one that's
sorta
>>>> lame.) (And there will be *more* obvious opportunities for
"discretionary
>>>> decisions" in a few scenes in that one. Like when the snow melts off
the
>>>> cabin roof. Ooooh, baby! But I tells 'em like I sees 'em.)

This simple description can already be interpreted several peculiar ways.
Wait and see...



Olivier