Egg is going to smash himself on Rockerduck's face for making the Doctor afraid.
(Egg loves to laugh about his own jokes.)
Egg wrote:Don't you read the articles and messages about stories of Barks being bad, having bad days, making lame stories, etc.? You can't mean you've forgotten that. There's a lot of (too) hard criticism on Barks.
Egg wrote:Really?!? Was it you? May I have your autograph then?
Rockerduck wrote:A handfull of e-mails on a mailing list by one artist and some of his 'followers' doesn't qualify as 'the media'. The way you bring it, it's like Barks is constantly bashed in magazines, on television, by 'experts' and colleages, to no end. That's an over-exaggeration.
Rockerduck wrote:Egg wrote:Really?!? Was it you? May I have your autograph then?
Maybe... If you're good.
Doctor Witchie Britchie wrote:No, Doctor Witchie Britchie isn't afraid--just didn't want to make Rockerduck leave.
Doctor Witchie Britchie wrote:Anyone who says Doctor Witchie Britchie is afraid will have to drinkee wig roaches dipped in greasy kid stuff! Doctor Wichie Britchie might startee new thread to talk about Rosa vs. Barks, so not to ruffle Rockerduck's feathers.
Egg wrote:Rockerduck wrote:That's an over-exaggeration.
No, it isn't.
Egg wrote:I'll do everything for a Rockerduck-autograph. Egg will try to be an angel.
Rockerduck wrote:In every respectable media source, Barks is *always* portrayed as a genius, as a sort of God who did so many wonderfull things for the Duck universe. That's something virtually all Duck fans agree on. There are more websites than I can count which praise Carl Barks and his world. There are only a few negative messages, so to say 'the media is bashing Barks' is indeed a grave over-exaggeration.
Rockerduck wrote:Egg wrote:Egg will try to be an angel.
Then you'll have to agree with me on everything.
Doctor Witchie Britchie wrote:also agree that the ridiculous controversy surrounding the classic Magic Hourglass is entirely Rosa's doing. When the story was reprinted recently in this country, Gemstone felt obliged to put a framing sequence around the story--making it a campfire yarn told by Louie--in order to avoid the angry reactions of Rosa fans who call Hourglass an "imaginary story."
Robb_K wrote:But, I'm sure I'll make a lot of enemies on this forum because of my taste regarding Rosa.
Egg wrote:Come on, have a big laugh when talking about our idols, to a certain extent. That's helps to relativate matters. (Also up to a certain extent, of course.)
Stephan wrote:Well, I can't laugh about Rosa-bashing no more, I actually never did. You wouldn't laugh too, if I started posting hundreds of posts about how bad Lennearth Nijgh is, would you?
Stephan wrote:Hey, maybe it's an idea if someone invites Don Rosa to join this topic. If he's able to defend himself in person, it's a much more intresting and fair discussion, I think.
Doctor Witchie Britchie wrote:I also agree that the ridiculous controversy surrounding the classic Magic Hourglass is entirely Rosa's doing. When the story was reprinted recently in this country, Gemstone felt obliged to put a framing sequence around the story--making it a campfire yarn told by Louie--in order to avoid the angry reactions of Rosa fans who call Hourglass an "imaginary story." Simply ludicrous!
Doctor Witchie Britchie wrote:Many other of Barks' stories--including one of Carl's personal favorites, Island in the Sky--have been given the status of "imaginary" stories because they violate the timeline set up by Rosa.
Doctor Witchie Britchie wrote:Incidentally, it's easy to connect the Scotch Highlander McDucks to the Persian King Scrooge-Shah, despite what Rosa says in the remarks quoted by Egg above. There is evidence that the Gaelic Highlanders originally hailed from Miletus, on the Turkish penninsula (the Irish Gaels, ancestors of the Scotch Gaels, have always been known as Milesians). The Persian rulers of Bagdad (or Sagbad) live in the middle east, not far from Turkey. The Persians, like the ancient Milesians, were Indo-European peoples. What is more likely than that King Scrooge-Shah and his kin fled Sagbad after the sack by the Mongolduks and sought refuge with fellow Indo-Europeans in Miletus. After several generations, the royal Sagbadian line became blended with the Milesian nobility, and descendants of Scrooge-Shah sailed to Ireland with Eber and Eremon, the leaders of the great Milesian invasion. Later, the McDucks, a clan partly descended from Scrooge-Shah, crossed over to Scotland with many other Milesian families, and thus became a powerful Highland clan. Simple, eh? Are these the lines the Italians followed in the stories Egg mentioned?
Doctor Witchie Britchie wrote:I recall Rosa's claim that he couldn't use Bolivar in a story since he wasn't allowed to introduce him as a new character and since he would NEVER pretend Bolivar had been a member of the Duck household all along--another preposterious statement. If Barks had been totally unwilling to introduce characters and pretend that they had existed all the time, he would never have created Gyro, Gladstone, Scrooge, the Beagle Boys, and I don't know how many others. Rosa has been called imaginative, but in this as in other matters he shows a deplorable lack of imagination.
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