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Everyone posted:Currently doing a Season 3 rewatch on "The Lost Harp of Mervana." It's kind of a hoot hearing Beast Boy and Starfire from Teen Titans Go! (Greg Cipes and Hyndon Walch) as two of the hippie Mervanans, Aletheia and Vero. Also loving Della "The only thing I fear is fish" Duck. I miss this show so very much. IMHO they should have done at least few TV movie-length stories with the major Barks/Rosa stories they didn't cover during the series run. It was COVID-19 time and all non-animation was shut down, sucks that we only got a short Youtube show out of it. This was the closest we ever got to the "European Duckverse" show, so it sucks so much that it was axed after 3 series, with the endgame taking over for the latter parts of the S3.
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I still kind of want a Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck movie/series to be honest
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Larryb posted:I still kind of want a Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck movie/series to be honest I want this more than anything else from the Mouse, but it won't happen as it doesn't have the appeal due to Barks/Rosa not being that big deal in the US, and they are already locking down on the stories by both authors.
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Mar 10, 2023 20:55
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Der Kyhe posted:and they are already locking down on the stories by both authors. What does this entail exactly?
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Mar 10, 2023 22:01
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Omobono posted:What does this entail exactly? They are adding notifiers to Barks stories about "different times and values", and just recently two Don Rosa stories were taken out of reprint cycle, both from the "Life and Times" because of how native Africans were portrayed in the story. It also completely messes up how Scrooge's redemption story goes in the cartoon, and the stupider part is that that exact story was made an episode in the new Ducktales series but only the cartoon were pulled. At least so far.
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Mar 10, 2023 22:07
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Der Kyhe posted:In S1 Scrooge says something akin to "this submarine doesn't have weapons"; first thing Della does after seeing fishmen is arm the warheads. It's a submarine. That goes deep under the ocean. Which has icky disgusting fish in it. And probably Duck-Cthulhu. Of course Della installed weapons in it.
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Everyone posted:It's a submarine. That goes deep under the ocean. Which has icky disgusting fish in it. And probably Duck-Cthulhu. Of course Della installed weapons in it. Well that's silly, Duck-Cthulhu is keeping their reality in existence.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Well that's silly, Duck-Cthulhu is keeping their reality in existence. And that's why the show ended. Della found Duck-Cthulhu and blew him to hell because of fish-racism.
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Apr 20, 2023 16:21
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Everyone posted:And that's why the show ended. Della found Duck-Cthulhu and blew him to hell because of fish-racism. Hiding her blatant racism towards fish people is also the real reason why Della Duck was originally written off as a non-present character in most of the Barks-Rosa canon.
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Der Kyhe posted:Hiding her blatant racism towards fish people is also the real reason why Della Duck was originally written off as a non-present character in most of the Barks-Rosa canon. The reason Namor hated surface people wasn't because of colonialism. It's because he encountered a time-traveling Della Duck.
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Apr 23, 2023 01:38
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So I'm rewatching the series and realized Donald says "can you do that without losing them?". Jeez, they jumped right in with the foreshadowing
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:So I'm rewatching the series and realized Donald says "can you do that without losing them?". Jeez, they jumped right in with the foreshadowing
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LividLiquid posted:Could you remind me what this was about and what it was foreshadowing? The reason why Donald cut off all contact with Scrooge for 12 years was because of what happened with Della and the Spear of Selene. He blames Scrooge for her going missing and, as far as he knows, dying. There's even a line from Donald later in the episode that you can barely heard over all the poo poo going nuts in the sunken temple and it's kind of garbled by Tony Anselmo's Donald Voice, but he even yells at Scrooge "This is the Spear of Selene all over again!"
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Thank you.
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LividLiquid posted:Could you remind me what this was about and what it was foreshadowing? Honestly, the first couple of times I heard the line, I thought he'd said "without using them," which seemed more in character for Scrooge. nine-gear crow posted:The reason why Donald cut off all contact with Scrooge for 12 years was because of what happened with Della and the Spear of Selene. He blames Scrooge for her going missing and, as far as he knows, dying. There's even a line from Donald later in the episode that you can barely heard over all the poo poo going nuts in the sunken temple and it's kind of garbled by Tony Anselmo's Donald Voice, but he even yells at Scrooge "This is the Spear of Selene all over again!"
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Some Numbers posted:This one's easier to parse when Scrooge immediately comes back with "I was NOT responsible for the Spear of Selene!" Funny thing is that also tracks, as the finale has Bradford admit he was the one who told Della about the Spear of Selene prematurely.
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Ballz posted:I haven't seen it, but there's a documentary on Rosa that mentions it in the description. Sorry for resurrecting this old discussion, but I just started watching the show and have been reading along with the thread. Being Danish, I was able to track down this documentary and have posted the relevant clip on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eumh2PkB6NU I distinctly remember it being common knowledge in my childhood that Barks hated Rosa's work, so it is nice to see that it wasn't the full story.
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With the caveat that Rosa was an engineer, that sounds an awful lot like him dancing around Carl being demented out of his mind and being led around the nose by some horrid "handlers" 
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Rappaport posted:With the caveat that Rosa was an engineer, that sounds an awful lot like him dancing around Carl being demented out of his mind and being led around the nose by some horrid "handlers" It is weirdly hard to find any information about this online. You would think a big beef between the two greatest duck artists would have been news. Wikipedia has this to say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks#Later_life posted:From 1993 to 1998, Barks' career was managed by the "Carl Barks Studio" (Bill Grandey and Kathy Morby—they had sold Barks original art since 1979). This involved numerous art projects and activities, including a tour of 11 European countries in 1994, Iceland being the first foreign country he ever visited. Barks appeared at the first of many Disneyana conventions in 1993. Silk screen prints of paintings along with high-end art objects (such as original water colors, bronze figurines and ceramic tiles) were produced based on designs by Barks. It would seem that Grandey and Morby were the two managers mentioned by Rosa. Wikipedia provides no sources for this, but googling the names led me to an old mailing list archive mentioning the outcome a lawsuit between Rosa and the studio: https://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/1995-July/004595.html posted:As I mentioned in another posting, I'm placing this on the mailing list at So, there was a lawsuit, but Barks wasn't personally involved. As for the comments mentioned at the end, Barks supposedly disliked "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" and felt that giving Scrooge an official backstory was a mistake. Unfortunately, my only source for this is vague memories of things I read 30 years ago. If anyone knows more details about these matters, I would love to hear them!
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I was about to complain that the only bad thing about Life and Times was the cost, but it looks like there was a reprint finally. 
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