Howdy-do bookclubbers, And LONG TIME NO SEE!!! To make a long story short school was kicking my ass the last number of months so I didn't have time to make book club posts (let alone read comics or have. literally any hobbies). The good news is that now I'm on summer break which means I have basically infinite time on my hands and no excuse not to catch back up! So with a whopping 16 comics to post about expect to see a lot of these posts from me for the next few weeks. Starting back up today with a classic, Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold by Carl Barks (his very first duck comic)!!!
Okay so I'm reading from my nice physical copy of Carl Barks Library #1, which hasn't been scanned to my awesome and SUPER LEGAL comic reading website for some reason (even though it came out months ago). And since I'm too lazy to find a better high quality scan I'm just gonna take photos of the damn book! So come enjoy my insane photography skills
ALSO 64 PAGES WHY'S THIS COMIC SO FUCKING LOOOONG WHAT WERE THEY FEEDING TO CARL
Leave it to Donald to find a name for a restaurant worse than "The Chum Bucket"
Look at these 2 sauce packet tall teeny weeny mfs
nvm found someone even teeny weenier
Obviously it's a really old story but it's funny to see Pete being the bad guy in a duck comic, like what are you doing here bro. Don't you have a mouse to go harrass?
We've also got these two broke ass Mortimer Mouses here... (Mortimer Mice?)
BRO'S READING LITTLE WOMEN
AW HELL NAW YELLOW BEAK IS A MISOGYNIST
It's cause he heard what Yellow Beak had to say about having women on board
NOOO PUT HIM DOWN NOOOO HE'S EEPING
HE'S GOT A KNIFE!!!!!!!! i mean she
these guys seem pretty stoked about it
HE'S TRYING TO FUCKING STAB BABYGIRL NOOOOO
DONALD WHAT THE HELL
I do not like skeleton tree.
DON'T GIVE A GUN TO A CHILD WHAT ARE YOU DOI-
-AAAND that's Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold! If you're thinking this post ended abruptly, the story ended pretty abruptly too. I was expecting some kind of twist at the end where the treasure would be fake or Yellow Beak would be a scam artist or something but no, I'm pretty sure they just... got the treasure and went home? Which is VERY surprising for Donald, that he actually won anything. I guess it's nice that in his first Barks adventure he got to win a little!
Anyways, not much to say in reflection of this story other than that it was pretty cute and fun, and honestly despite the longer page-count it never felt excessively slow. The pacing was pretty tight the whole time. Definitely worth a read if you can get a copy!
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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck - The Dreamtime Duck of the Never Never
Origin: United States
Pages: 15
Author: Don Rosa
First published: June 1993
I.N.D.U.C.K.S
Summary: Year 1896: Young Scrooge encounters the best and worst of the land ‘down under’ as his search for fortune takes him to the outback of Australia where he learns of the Dreamtime.
hello everyone. it is time for me, certified lyla enjoyer, to read The End of the Story, a comic whose cover features lyla sprawled on the ground in the rain while pk and some guy dressed all in black beat each other up in the background. it's sunday evening i'm downloading the summer curriculum from an extremely slow cd player and i am ready. what could possibly go wrong.
maybe wrong is a bad word. what could possibly go emotionally impactful?
fantastic intro there buddy!
it's kinda killing me that he jumped into the ocean (seemingly disproving our "droids can't swim because they sink to the bottom of the ocean" theory but maybe not) and then came out without a shirt on. like i know it's normal to strip when you're swimming for your life but a) this guy is not biological b) why just the shirt
ok anyway!
by the way that guy is a droid so if you haven't read this yet and i spoiled it for you then sorry. i put the read more there for a reason
anyway pk is doing what he tends to do in pk2, which is be somehow EVEN MORE OVERWHELMED than he was in pkna! sure he doesn't have to be constantly vigilant for genocidal alien attacks anymore but it's not like you can relax when everett ducklair is here and knows who you are; when you no longer have uno there to manage things for you; when you have to work to keep your job because your uncle i guess is not bailing you out right now; when you have to personally move your entire superhero base; when your coworkers are needy; also you are still a single parent; etc etc. you get it. so yeah there's rupert drama. who gaf.
DUDE HOLY SHIT CAMERA NINE SIGHTING! AND ALSO ZIGGY I LIKE HIM! i like ziggy i've just been really camera nine brained for creative reasons which will be released to the public in probably about 12 days but i'm not sure yet
lyla is absolutely.... comment le dire... elle est parfaitement MOGGING i believe is the term being used nowadays. in this entire comic. and she is about to be FREE from working with angus rangus fangus anymore because she's being hired by everett ducklair! i'm sure she will like that job :)
my instinctual reaction here was "omg he looks like me" and i'm really not sure how i feel about that
k so after this we get like three straight pages of gunplay along with tyrrel duckard using his laser eyes and jumping like fucking edward cullen to get away. the blur motion techniques in some of these panels are effective, impressive, and hilarious
two bad bitches in a room... it's no wonder everett has to be so mean to birgit cus if he doesn't keep her down she'll get too powerful and looking at her will burn your eyes out greek god style
i'm thinking a lot of borderline disrespectful things about lyla rn but i'm keeping them to myself
here's basically a summary of lyla's first 10 minutes the way i see it
lyla: hello
birgit: call me birgit girly! anyway here's your desk, your job is going to be very hard because everett seems pretty determined to make insane choices at every turn
lyla: shouldnt interacting with other companies be his deal
birgit: no he's got some pretty salacious (?) (why's she look so scheming in that one panel) he's got some pretty dramatic things to deal with on his own.... he's kinda occupied.... in his personal life.... if you know what i mean.... [being extremely vague]
lyla: should we be gossiping about our boss' personal struggles 5 minutes into me being here. would it be okay if i did my job like a respectful adult with integrity
birgit: okay listen here bitch there's only two rules. stay out of my way.... and leave everett the fuck alone
[hard cut to everett being the shortest most awkward father on the planet in the universe]
DOES JUNIPER KNOW HOW TO READ? this is huge news
i can't even make a sassy quip here ive just read all of pk2 and a lot of pkne and this is making me really upset. if you don't know what i'm talking about then don't worry about it let's move on.
i forgot they write mary ann flagstarr out by sending her undercover for fifteen years.... they hit the pentagon bro
and they've replaced mary ann with this ginger ass annie get your gun understudy chick. whatever.
imagine batman trying to save the world but jeff from accounts payable keeps calling to ask what kind of flowers he should get his wife
qui est cette meuf HOTTIE dans la rue
mec looks 8 seconds away from quoting humphrey bogart lines and this time i mean that in a DEROGATORY WAY. try to pull a "here's looking at you, kid" and i'll get violent. i'll make you wish time travel was never invented. fucker. get away from her. i'm sorry i'm fine.
"we'll always have paris" ass shot. sorry whatever.
actual footage of me when i run out of hershey's kisses
he's actually so creepy i'm so mad i can't even vocalize anything. stop infantilizing her you . i can't say any of the words that i'm thinking right now because all of the words i'm thinking right now are not constructive.
cool he's got his gun on him, which could mean nothing
i need him dead so bad i wish he was human so i could make him not alive anymore. girlfriend coming in with the based takes btw^the first time i saw him i was like why'd they give lyla a butch girlfriend who has the same face as her
i have thoughts about lyla's dating a superior officer not being out of character if you read it through a lens of young woman instability lack of identity something misogyny something insecure something but i'm too mad and tired and mad to put any of it into words smartly here. i just need to like write some fanfiction or something idk.
i love my weird daughter with a brain that works not normally and inexplicable gaps in cultural competency
my reaction to this is not fit to be printed.
call her little one one more time and die. THAT'S MY JOB ONLY I'M ALLOWED TO DO THAT GET AWAY FROM HER!!!!!!!!
donald: i'm really worried about my friend who seems to be harboring a fugitive and is keeping secrets from me even though we never keep secrets from each other. what's that. ring ring. rupert--- no rupert stella is NOT going to think chilli cheese dogs are romantic do not get her one
another everett ducklair's valiant attempts to communicate with his daughter who i'm still pretty sure has brain damage at this point scene. i have no response because if i try to formulate one i'll just get emotional in ways we don't ahve time for. moving on to rupella (rupert x stella) date! which we are all so interested in!
who else thinks lyla knows exactly where donald is and that he's watching them and isn't saying anything because she's 1000x smarter than tyrrel everyone raise your hand
ME I DO! this is like asking a boomer if they remember the day jfk got shot
KILL HIM
WHAT'S THAT? IT'S LYLA WITH A STEEL CHAIR
was tyrrel gonna just straight up shoot donald point blank. i love pk2
^moodboard for this page
i'm gonna need to take a hydroxyzine to fall asleep after this i'm so serious.
actually the lyla "i have people from my past who were important to me here trying to take me home but i dont need them and dont want to leave" vs juniper "i want my sister and my mom and i don't want to be here" arcs are so insane. whatever. whatever.
i'm gonna go take some deep breaths and also post the comic for this actual real week. but like yeah. lyla confronted with her homeland and deciding this is her real home with the people in it she loves and standing up for that AND she does it in the rain AND she does it with her hair down it's like this comic was WRITTEN FOR MEEEEEE
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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck - The Terror of the Transvaal
Origin: United States
Pages: 12
Author: Don Rosa
First published: May 1993
I.N.D.U.C.K.S
Summary: Year 1887; Young Scrooge sails to Capetown South Africa to get in on the Gold Rush. Here he finds it’s not easy to prospect gold, especially with all the villains and scalawags out to get him!
