Slippery Sales

[Carl Lund]

>
> From:
> Francesco Spreafico <francesco.spreafico at gmail.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:07:36 +0200
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> To:
> DCML <dcml at nafsk.se>
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> Personally, I only care about the quality of the stories, not where
> they're published. WDC&S currently prints the best stories created in
> maybe the last 20 years. So, with that, Boom is doing an excellent
> job. Of course I'm just talking about WDC&S here, starting with issue
> 703. If you're not buying you're missing something you should be
> buying, if you like Disney Comics.
>    

Wow.  If I were unfamiliar with Disney stories from the past 20 years--I 
assume you're limiting the criteria to those--and looked at the quality 
of C&S my thought would be "No wonder Disney comics are in such bad shape."

Since I am a little familiar with those stories, I think instead that I 
whole-heartedly disagree with that assessment as the quality of the 
stories selected.  While some have their charms, as a whole there is 
nothing in the same realm of excellence as Don Rosa's work.  For that 
matter, Daan Jippes' re-drawings of Barks' Junior Woodchucks stories are 
far better. Personally, I was never a fan of William Van Horn, but his 
stuff was far better than what I'm seeing in BOOM's C&S as well.

The stories in C&S remind me a little bit of the stories in some of the 
Western Publishing "funny animal" comics from my childhood (and older 
copies from my dad's childhood).  They're interchangeable.  In the 
Western days, even as a kid, I thought that there were stories that 
featured, say, Bugs Bunny.  Those same stories could've (and sometimes 
were) been retold with Porky Pig or Woody Woodpecker or, for that 
matter, Mickey Mouse as the lead character without being significantly 
changed.  They were all about plot and not about character (not that I 
necessarily could explain the importance of characterization and 
character development as a pre-teen).  Now an entertaining plot is 
important, but without attention to character everything ends up reading 
pretty similarly or at least pretty dryly.  That is probably the key 
problem I see in all of BOOM's current stuff--including C&S which has 
some stories that are entertaining, but I would never want to hold them 
up as exemplars of the best Disney comics has had to offer in the past 
twenty years.

Carl

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