Robb_K wrote:['The Prisoner of White Agony Creek'] Unfortunately, I doubt that his mistake in that story will disenchant even one of his ardent fans.
As you can see here in this topic, some Rosa fans do protest against the story, in multiple levels.
At first people didn't believe that Rosa would ever break his promise about leaving that month up to the reader, and now Rosa not only has crossed that border of leaving Scrooge and Goldie alone, Rosa even included suggestive adult language. How to get attention for dummies.
After Scrooge's family got either killed or depressed in Rosa Life of $crooge, it's now time for another underground shocker to divide the fandom. The "mistake" looks like a willfull attempt for yet another controversy about which the author can claim that he didn't intend it that way, and that he was just pleasing himself. The latter sounding a bit like a wordplay now, concerning Rosa's fantasies about his $crooge and his Goldie alone together in a remote Yukon cabin during winter.
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Don Rosa on DCML, 7 November 1996, about Scrooge en Goldie:
I know you're a newcomer to the Group, and welcome. But have you considered reading through the archived Digests to see what's already been discussed here? It should take you only 6 months or so to read those 10,000 pages. (!) Anyway, I've always said that I would NEVER do a story where I show $crooge and Goldie having any direct contact in the Yukon days. I purposely built "Hearts of the Yukon" around a situation where they NEVER interact. Barks did the only such story that there should ever be, and for anyone to ever deal with their brief time together in the Klondike would be to dilute the significance of that meeting. The only contact they had was that month alone together at White Agony Creek, and we use our individual imaginations as to what took place in that time. No, sorry, I'll never do the scenes that you say you wished I'd included in the "Lo$".
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Don Rosa, date unknown:
"C’mon, now! You’re a big boy, right?! $crooge and Goldie alone together in a remote Yukon cabin during a long, cold and snowy winter? What do you think would happen?"
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Robb_K wrote:['The Prisoner of White Agony Creek'] He draws The Disney Ducks as Robert Crumb would. Now he decided to write his Duck stories as Robert Crumb would. Isn't that ironic?
Crumb is unknown to me. An example of Robert Crumb art, according to Google:
I can't read the French(?) text, but the art looks remarkably like Rosa's to me.
Wikipedia has a page about Robert Crumb:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_CrumbRobb_K wrote:It would be funny, except for the fact that I resent Egmont's staff for allowing it in print, and for my jealousy regarding his status versus that of peons like me.
Would it be funny at all? It's so cheap. Like an old uncle destroying a children's party with dirty jokes.
Maybe it's just me, but I remember 'Hearts of the Yukon' having at least a little romantic taste. Looking at the samples of 'Prisoner' it seems to me as if Rosa has lost his touch. In writing and art.
Which, in Rosa's case, is a disaster within a disaster. In 'Hearts of the Yukon', Rosa sets The Blackjack Ballroom on fire. A place that is "later"(!) used in Barks's 'Back to the Klondike'. What was the excuse? That the place was rebuilt? Wasn't the wooden place really so much afire, that no one could have rescued it? Even worse, Rosa lets the fireman use frozen hoses to safe the place. Look how fast the city changes from a bonfire to a swimming pool. It must have been raining firemen that day. And still people will claim it to be authentic and in line with Barks. (They're mixing up both artists anyway.)
How come Rosa got to write the Life of Scrooge at all? AFAIK it was on request of Egmont, who searched for an artist willing to build up a Scrooge history. Does someone know?