DCML Digest, Vol 72, Issue 10

[ymh at aol.com]

I agree with this assesment completely. I don't think I've enjoyed a single European story that I've read in the Gemstone comics, which is pretty much the reason I finally?stopped buying them a year or two ago. Since I'm not in a position to read the originals, I don't know if the fault (if the inability to cater to my personal tastes can even be called a "fault") lies with the originals or the the localization, but either way, it's there.

A lot?of what's missing for me in these stories is the language and the timing. There isn't enough creative wordplay for me, and the timing of the action and the humor always seems a bit off.

It's probably not that useful for me to be speaking in such generalities; I should pick apart some particular stories and explain in detail what I don't like about them. That's not something I have time for today, but maybe I'll do it at some point. I just wanted to speak up to make it known that there are people (or at least one person)?like me who really do want to be reading Disney Duck stories but aren't able to find much that's compeling in Gemstone's current output.


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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:35:20 -0600
From: Carl Lund <clund at cox.net>
Subject: Re: Globality
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I would add to what Gary says that it seems to this American reader, at 
least, that it makes for better stories to have them originally in 
English rather than translated into English.  Let me rephrase that 
slightly: it makes for better Duck stories.  Part of what made Barks' 
stories so successful is that they were more than adventures; they were 
more than comedies; there was also some social satire in there.  And 
while there are universal themes that lend themselves to social satire, 
certainly, the best and the sharpest--I would argue--come from the 
country whose society sets the framework for the action and the satire.  
Duckburg (to me at least) seems quintessentially American.  I say that 
not to be jingoistic; it just does.  I miss the highly literate 
translations of European stories in Gladstone Series I (as well as the 
erudite commentary often provided), but it takes a very special 
translation to capture the spirit of the original while capturing the 
imagination of its new audience.

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