Donald duck is kewl ^ I always enjoy donald duck stories and so do my kids. This one was pretty good. Artwork could have been a little better
Donald Duck is a LOOSER! ^ I didn't like Donald Duck as a kid. Still don't. Why not? Because Donald's a LOOSER, that's why! I had hundreds of Donald Duck comics magazines as a kid, but threw them all away. The other kids had a real bonanza, when they found the mags in the garbage room on ground floor, LOL. The only Duck tale I could stomach was "Trail of the Unicorn". I preferred sophisticated French comics: Tintin, Spirou, Johan and Peewit, Asterix, Lucky Luke and The Smurfs! :D
So Donald's a looser. He's an underemployed, non-unionized, unmarried, childless bum living in a town called Duckburg. His filthy rich capitalist uncle Scrooge McDuck constantly takes advantage of him. Every time Donald tries to scam him (and in my book, he has the RIGHT to scam Scrooge), he's turned in by his three sneaky little nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie. Apparently, the kids are members of a fascist, paramilitary organization, modelled on the Hitlerjugend, known as "The Junior Woodchucks". They have a CIA-written spy guide to most of the known universe, and one of their rules is "LOVE BIG BROTHER, AND TURN IN YOUR UNCLE. HE MIGHT BE A COMMUNIST".
Donald also has an annoying cousin, Gladstone, who is always lucky and never tires of harassing poor Donald. In the Swedish version, Gladstone is called "Alexander Lukas". At least in my neighbourhood, that's a very posh, upper class, Uptown kind of name (he looks upper class too). Both Donald and Alexander, sorry Gladstone, have a incomprehensible crush on Daisy Duck, the worst womyn in Duckburg, a veritable showcase of Freudian neuroses. Donald usually gets her, another proof that he's a looser. They don't have kids either. (The three German ducks are his NEPHEWS, remember?). In some episodes, we also learn that Donald isn't very far removed from his rural roots in fly-over country, since he has a gluttonous goose cousin who lives at some barnyard in Deliverance County, West Virginia.
AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!
When "Donald Duck & Co" was introduced in Italy, the tuff-ruff Italian kidos actually *complained* about Donald always being a looser, so the Italian publisher created PAPERINIK, Donald Duck turned into a SUPER HERO. Apparently, it's not available in English, but it became very popular in Europe, including Sweden. I remember being *very* confused when reading the Paperinik comics, often found in the same magazines as the real Donald Duck stories, since Paperinik doesn't belong in the "Donald Duck universe", but rather in some kind of parallel universe which never meets the "real" one.
Weird, huh?
So the American original is a LOOSER, while the Old Europe version (they refuse to help us in Iraq, blah blah) is a WINNER?
Well, the world is strange, LOL.
PS. Product specific review? Who's to tell?
Classic DONALD VS. GLADSTONE ^ This whole comic album is about Donald Duck vs. Gladstone Gander, his absurdly lucky cousin. It has 5 stories in it, and most of them are pretty good. The first story is about Donald and Gladstone competing over who can donate $5 to one of Daisy's organizations the fastest, with Donald trying to steal from his clever nephews. The second story is about Donald and Gladstone competing over rock collecting. The third story is about Donald entering a salmon fishing contest and doing quite well until gladstone shows up and trys to ruin everything. The fourth story is when Donald and Gladstone both go to Daisy's for dinner. In the fifth story Donald and Gladstone compete over the lead part in one of the plays Daisy is helping to put on. Donald and Gladstone both try to ruin everything for each other by playing cruel tricks and practical jokes on each other during the play. In the end they both get a surprise. I liked this comic album just as much as I enjoy all the other great Donald Duck comics out there. Anybody who likes Donald Duck or Disney comics would probably enjoy this comic.
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