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Jon Cooke
08-14-2004, 08:20 PM
This thread is about cover gags that you just don't get. This was inspired by the recent thread about the latest Gemstone Mickey book.

http://www.gemstonecomics.com/product_images/5/3910/001_big.jpg

This gag makes no sense to me. What's the Emergency that involves that big bone? Why does Mickey look like he wants Pluto to hand him something? :confused: :mickey:


-Jon
Thad
08-14-2004, 08:37 PM
http://funnies.goldenagecartoons.com/wdcs641.gif

I guess Donald is trying to impress Daisy with stupid heart shaped glasses...?


-Thad
rodney
08-14-2004, 09:06 PM
Looks to me like the MM gag was really involving something else, and they changed the sign to attempt to create some gag. Doesn't matter. No matter how funny the gag, Tello's Mickey is still extremely ugly.


I assume that Thad is right about the WDCS cover.
Jon Cooke
08-15-2004, 11:50 AM
Here's another one. Apparently Donald is disturbed to notice that Doc has decapitated Daffy Duck and put his head on the guitar. :eek: :daffy:
Thad
08-15-2004, 11:56 AM
Here's another one. Apparently Donald is disturbed to notice that Doc has decapitated Daffy Duck and put his head on the guitar. :eek: :daffy:
I couldn't find a nicer looking version of the Gladstone reprinted cover, but here's the original from WDCS #45... Donald seems to be seeing his 'worse self' on Doc's guitar...


-Thad
Jon Cooke
08-15-2004, 11:59 AM
I couldn't find a nicer looking version of the Gladstone reprinted cover, but here's the original from WDCS #45... Donald seems to be seeing his 'worse self' on Doc's guitar...

That still makes no sense. Is there something evil about playing music with Doc and Dopey?

I guess they made an error coloring the Gladstone version of the cover. The evil duck head on my copy sure isn't red either.


-Jon
Thad
08-15-2004, 05:39 PM
http://funnies.goldenagecartoons.com/cover/realscreen/rs002.jpg http://funnies.goldenagecartoons.com/cover/realscreen/rs013.jpg
I'll be darned if I know what any of these mean...


-Thad
angelidollinda
08-15-2004, 11:26 PM
http://funnies.goldenagecartoons.com/cover/realscreen/rs002.jpg http://funnies.goldenagecartoons.com/cover/realscreen/rs013.jpg
I'll be darned if I know what any of these mean...


-Thad

Hm.... maybe the grapes are olives? And I believe that since the doodle is of Fox, it acts like a voodoo doll?
Nanoumotion
08-16-2004, 12:21 AM
http://funnies.goldenagecartoons.com/cover/realscreen/rs002.jpg http://funnies.goldenagecartoons.com/cover/realscreen/rs013.jpg
I'll be darned if I know what any of these mean...


-ThadThe first one is probably a reference to an old fable titled the fox and the grapes. Being of french background, I would say that it's from Jean de La Fontaine but since Monsieur de La Fontaine reprised lots of old fables from Aesope, it could date back to the antiquity.

In this story, a fox finds some grapes on a vine but since they are too high for him to reach, he pretends that they were too sour for his taste. In this panel, the crow deliberately gave access to real sour grapes to the fox.To torture him I guess.
Javeman
08-16-2004, 09:29 AM
I couldn't find a nicer looking version of the Gladstone reprinted cover, but here's the original from WDCS #45... Donald seems to be seeing his 'worse self' on Doc's guitar...


-ThadMaybe Doc is such a lousy musician that the devil is telling Donald to kill Doc?

As for the second Fox & Crow comic, I agree with Angie, it's probably a voodoo effect.
Thad
08-16-2004, 10:15 AM
The first one is probably a reference to an old fable titled the fox and the grapes. Being of french background, I would say that it's from Jean de La Fontaine but since Monsieur de La Fontaine reprised lots of old fables from Aesope, it could date back to the antiquity.

In this story, a fox finds some grapes on a vine but since they are too high for him to reach, he pretends that they were too sour for his taste. In this panel, the crow deliberately gave access to real sour grapes to the fox.To torture him I guess.
That's what David Gerstein and I were able to deduce... Still a little hard to understand at first glance though...


-Thad
angelidollinda
08-16-2004, 12:03 PM
As for the second Fox & Crow comic, I agree with Angie, it's probably a voodoo effect.

Wow, this is the first time somebody called me "Angie" on here... :D
Jack
08-19-2004, 12:43 AM
I couldn't find a nicer looking version of the Gladstone reprinted cover, but here's the original from WDCS #45... Donald seems to be seeing his 'worse self' on Doc's guitar...


-Thad
I think that the joke isn't that Donald is seeing his worse self or an illusion, it's just that Doc's instrument is ornately carved to look like an angry duck - in keeping with the "old world" ornateness of the rest of of the Dwarves' cottage. Sometimes folk-artsy stuff can look quite creepy.

With the Fox and Crow covers I interpreted the left-hand cover the same way Squidley did, and the right-hand cover the same way angelidollinda did.