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A review by glyptodonsneeze
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck by Carl Barks
4.0
A scattershot overview of Barks' work. He wrote the introduction, and one wonders whether he chose his favorite comics, comics he considered important to the development of the Ducks, comics he heard most about from fans, comics the proper length to stick in the book, or whether someone else chose the comics and why. (The introduction is good. Barks talks about the Ducks' development and namechecks a few early Disney artists whose work he built on. He also says that most of his fan mail is from adults, which wouldn't surprise me now, but he was writing in the '70s.)
Lost in the Andes is in here. I grew up on Return to Plain Awful and I always squee when I read the source material. So is Luck of the North, which is a nice adventure from the days before airplanes were regulated and has the good sequence of Huey, Dewey, and Louie rescuing Donald while he's snowblind and wandering over polar bears. And there's an early Scrooge story where all the money from the money bin goes into the Duckburg reservoir and the Beagle Boys buy land downstream. But Christmas for Shacktown is reproduced here as well, and it's insipid. The Golden Helmet is stupid and should be buried, but it's in this collection.
Everything in this book has been collected elsewhere, and really, why go Donald when you can go Scrooge? If you find a copy of this Duck collection in your hands, read it by all means, but there's better out there.
Lost in the Andes is in here. I grew up on Return to Plain Awful and I always squee when I read the source material. So is Luck of the North, which is a nice adventure from the days before airplanes were regulated and has the good sequence of Huey, Dewey, and Louie rescuing Donald while he's snowblind and wandering over polar bears. And there's an early Scrooge story where all the money from the money bin goes into the Duckburg reservoir and the Beagle Boys buy land downstream. But Christmas for Shacktown is reproduced here as well, and it's insipid. The Golden Helmet is stupid and should be buried, but it's in this collection.
Everything in this book has been collected elsewhere, and really, why go Donald when you can go Scrooge? If you find a copy of this Duck collection in your hands, read it by all means, but there's better out there.