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"The fun thing for us for that end sequence was his costume -- what he would have left over from the ship. I don't really think you see it in the film but the trousers that he's wearing, they're cut from one of the flight suits. And we've done a belt buckle that's made of xenonite that Rocky would've made for him. And all of the sewing on it is a little bit - it's nowhere near as good as Jenny would normally do, so we had to purposely ask Jenny to do bad sewing at the top of his trousers, so it'd look like he would've done it.

And then our brilliant breakdown department, run by Tim Shanahan, they break everything down to look like it's 10, 20 years old. So his cardigan and the t-shirt's all faded. And even on the laces -- the laces in his chuck taylors -- because your laces always break after a certain period of time, so we found stuff that was on the ship, like elastics and stuff. There's a nice big close-up actually in the film, so you can see that they're not normal laces, they're like stuff that he would've got from the ship that he's made as make-shift laces."

on top of that... it's a seismic area. you really don't want to make engineering experiments there.

governments have tried to figure out a way to build that bridge at least from the 60s, afaik, but engineers have just come to the conclusion that nope.

also: people in sicily and calabria have reason to believe that if a project like that gets given the green light, it will end up fattening the pockets of corrupted politicians and mafia groups.

pretty straightforward right? yeah... NOPE!

the italian right has been waving the proposal of building that bridge for decades. every once in a while, when you think you're free, BAM the right-wing politician genius of the moment comes up with the law proposal to build the bridge. it used to be berlusconi, now berlusconi is dead, recently it's been salvini. they propose to build the bridge, the left says "what the fuck", and the right goes see!! the left doesn't want progress and development for the country!! they want the country to languish and die!!

(in the meanwhile taxpayers' euros go into paying commissions that need to figure out how to build the bridge, ignoring that there's been a billion commissions over almost a century that have all come to the conclusion that nope.)

(also remember what i said about corrupted politicians and mafia groups? well try to guess the reason it's the right-wing parties that keep insisting on building this fucking bridge.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DON ROSA!

On this day in 1951, Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known as Don Rosa, was born in Louisville, Kentucky. From a young age, he has been drawing various things, especially superhero comics related to Marvel and DC, and then moved on to drawing his favorite characters from Disney, especially Donald, Scrooge, Huey, Dewey and Louie and other characters from the Duckverse, more precisely from the Carl Barks comics universe. He also invented his own character Captain Kentucky where he published comic books under that name for a time. He will become more famous when he works for Disney comics from 1987 and when in 1992 he publishes a series of comics related to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. From 1990 to 2008, he worked for Egmont comics (Danish edition of Disney comics). He even wrote and drew Ducktales comics (Ducktales 1987) and scripted the Talespin episodes, believe it or not. He retired in 2008 due to health reasons, but he certainly travels around the world and draws for his fans. It is generally more popular in Europe than in America. And yes, he is very unhappy with Disney's treatment of his comics. However, he received many awards.

Although he inherited a lot from Barks, Don Rosa still created his own Duckverse universe in which he showed more sensitivity in many characters than in other authors. He also wrote and drew comics related to the Three Caballeros. In his private life, he grows chilies. He had a wife, who unfortunately died last year. May his wife rest in peace. Amen.

Certainly, Don Rosa is one of my favorite writers and artists for Donald Duck comics and I am very grateful to him for the great comics he left behind. I wish him a happy 75th birthday and a long and healthy life and I hope that I may meet him in person one day. Thank you Don Rosa for these comics and the issues you left us!

And yes, his comics are not DUCKTALES nor DUCKTALES (especially the reboot version) is as close to his comics as anyone has claimed it to be, otherwise it is not.

Happy 75th birthday Don Rosa!