You've gotta get Christmas Parade!!!

[rodney]

Looking for a dose of classic christmas fun? You've just got to get a copy of Gemstone's 'Christmas Parade' for this year. 80 pages of classic stories with FANTASTIC coloring.

While we're at it, Uncle Scrooge has a great Barks story that's one of my all time favorites.....Christmas For Shacktown. You'll be thrilled with that one too. It's a real taste of the Christmas spirit.

[Thad]

Sounds great, Rodney, I can't wait to pick these up this weekend!

Speaking of which, I plan on decorating GAF for Christmas this weekend (after all the shopping is done)... I'll be putting up lots of Christmas funnies, and a few other surprises...


-Thad

[ohmahaaha]

Originally Posted by rodney

Looking for a dose of classic christmas fun? You've just got to get a copy of Gemstone's 'Christmas Parade' for this year. 80 pages of classic stories with FANTASTIC coloring.

While we're at it, Uncle Scrooge has a great Barks story that's one of my all time favorites.....Christmas For Shacktown. You'll be thrilled with that one too. It's a real taste of the Christmas spirit.

Did you get the classic cover or the modern cover (or both)? These super giants from Gemstone (last year's Christmas Parade and Vacation Parade) have all been SUPERB so far!

[rodney]

Actually, I got the classic cover. Didn't know there were two. I saw another cover, but I thought they had chosen to change it.

[Thad]

Finally got around to getting the Gemstone comics... Great stuff here! CHRISTMAS PARADE #2 is great, I love how every story is a vintage one rather than a mix of old and new.

UNCLE SCROOGE #336 is great too, it was nice seeing "Christmas for Shacktown" again, and the Magica Christmas story at the end was pretty good as well.

MICKEY'S TWICE UPON A CHRISTMAS was okay, it might've been better if they didn't photoshop a shadowing on everything. "Christmas: Impossible" was the best of the stories in this one.

I haven't read much of WALT DISNEY'S COMICS & STORIES #651 yet, but all I can say is... What ANOTHER Van Horn reprint?!

I also liked seeing the Mickey Mouse Magazine cover reprinted on the back of C&S, it reminds me of "The Year That Was..." sections Gladstone used to do.


-Thad

[ohmahaaha]

Originally Posted by Thad Komorowski

I haven't read much of WALT DISNEY'S COMICS & STORIES #651 yet, but all I can say is... What ANOTHER Van Horn reprint?!

I also liked seeing the Mickey Mouse Magazine cover reprinted on the back of C&S, it reminds me of "The Year That Was..." sections Gladstone used to do.


-Thad

I read the Walt Disney's Comics & Stories first, still have Uncle Scrooge and Christmas Parade to go thru yet - I must say the WDCS was well below par all around, I thought all of the tales were pretty lousy. Standout on that point is the story featuring Horace Horsecollar - for me, anyway, seeing a story starring Horace Horsecollar is like turning on the Three Stooges hoping for Curly and seeing a Joe Besser episode start.

Scrooge and Christmas Parade look great, so hopefully WDCS # 651 will quickly fade from memory.

[Thad]

I didn't care much for WDC&S #651 either... Actually, the only stories that DID stand out were the Horace and Pluto stories (so you know an issue is pretty bad), so that shows we have different tastes.

I also find it a little ironic that a letter of mine harping on how their Wolf section needs improvement gets printed in the same issue with one of the worst Zeke stories they've published to date...


-Thad

[rodney]

I wonder how long printing the Jippes stories as the lead in WDCS will last. He's pretty slow with his work, though he really does excellent 10 pagers. I haven't read this one yet, but his earlier work with Freddy Milton is excellent.

[ohmahaaha]

Originally Posted by Thad Komorowski

I didn't care much for WDC&S #651 either... Actually, the only stories that DID stand out were the Horace and Pluto stories (so you know an issue is pretty bad), so that shows we have different tastes.

I also find it a little ironic that a letter of mine harping on how their Wolf section needs improvement gets printed in the same issue with one of the worst Zeke stories they've published to date...


-Thad

LOL - I read your letter, and basically thought the same thing. And actually, I DID enjoy the Pluto story even though the whole thing was basically a swipe of the animated short, looked like the basically drew freeze frames of the cartoon.

[David Gerstein]

Originally Posted by ohmahaaha

I DID enjoy the Pluto story even though the whole thing was basically a swipe of the animated short

Swipe, nuthin'! Kari Korhonen was intentionally adapting the short. His story was originally produced by Egmont for a special book of cartoon and feature film adaptations.