Robb_K wrote:It's just an unfortunate situation. I know that Don didn't mean for that to happen.
How do you know? And still, what does Don Rosa do against it? Doesn't he have his pride then? On DCML he rants about being popular wolrdwide, with only a few nasty individuals being the bad guys to blame. Rosa acts like an emperor. And the situation reminds of fairy tale The Emperor's New Clothes.
Robb_K wrote:I am not on this forum or thread to "bash" another individual.
Of course not. But Rosa-fans tend to twist the topic so, that everything is sad for the poor Rosa. I think Rosa's world is sad and limited, but that's no reason to have Disney and Barks being destroyed.
Rosa's impatient defense of for example dumping 'The Magic Hourglass' and Scrooge's lucky dime just emphasizes that something is VERY wrong in Duckburg. Rosa can say whatever he wants about his Barks and "Barks-purists", and on DCML Rosa's fans crawl over each other to defend the poor man. And editors just look at it and go along with it.
Meanwhile Rosa wants percents of his name being on Egmont-covers. First Rosa wanted to be credited. Then he got credited, and now he wants to be paid for it. Very nice for him, but I do smell some sort of commercial thinking, or else an extreme urge to be important.
And look at how Rosa complains about almost everything. Things only go fine when they're done HIS way. Rosa once even said that an English had to be literally translated, with a box explaining what the English pun was.
Sorry, I don't dig the "poor Rosa"-theory. And if Rosa is poor, then he does it to himself. If fans like Stephan would get their way, no one could ever even touch the Rosa-subject critically. But Stephan himself has reported on the Dutch forum how Rosa wrote to him, lying about 'Back to Klondike' and 'Prisoner of White Agony Creek'. But Stephan just goes on with his idol being the victim of the entire world, urging people to behave when criticizing the bad behaviour of his dear mr. Rosa.
Stephan makes the subject look stupid, with an evil title, as if "Rosa-bashers" are less worth being heard. He explained this topic is intended to discuss OUR behaviour, not that of Rosa's. A remarkable difference.
As Don Rosa always uses his own name, even sharing the Keno-name for more intimacy, he and his Rosa-fans can claim everything to be a personal attack. Just to quote Barks's Scrooge: "It's a trick!"
Therefore I want to ignore cry baby comments which tries to make critics look evil.