What's your favorite Duck story?
>>150198853The black knight is always grand, but I'm a sucker for the OG Universal Solvent story. It was one of the first I ever read so I have nostalgia for it, but it's also just visually and conceptually compelling with extremely high stakes, so it's a fun read every time. I 100% understand why Rosa shamelessly re-used it from his old OC Donut comics. I love a story where the antagonist is just physics.To that end, special shout-out to the one where Magica fucks with Scrooge and Donald's personal gravity. Always makes me chortle.
>>150198853The Magnificent Seven minus 4 Caballeros.Though The Black Knight glorps again is also very good
>>150199310>the seven (minus 4) Who were the four others originally?
>>150198853idk
>>150198853Arpin Lusene was a fucking chad. Dude was so confident in his own coordination and dexterity that he wore a suit that would kill him and everyone on the planet if he tripped and fell without a second thought.
>>150199397No
>>150198853This one
>>150201152Even better is everyone knew he's a thief (IIRC) and he wore it like a badge of honor
I waifufag Lyla like you wouldn't believe but PK's best tended to be the Xadhoom stories
>>150198853The Life & Times of Uncle Scrooge should be considered an obligatory entry-lvl book, alongside DKR, Watchmen, etc. It should be pushed into school book fairs. It's that important imho. It's a crime Disney went out of their way to block Fantagraphics from reprinting it.The Dream of a Lifetime and Attack of the Hideous Space-Varmints are also fun Rosa books.Paperinik New Adventures is a badass series, but I don't think they have localize those in the US yet. I think there's like decade old fan translation out there online, but that's it.Land Beneath the Ground is one of my favorite Barks stories. I find the Terries and Fermies fun, goofy creatures.
Favorite Barks: Land Beneath the GroundFavorite Rosa: His Majesty McDuckFavorite Van Horn/Lustig: No Room for Human Error
>>150204661>Van Horn
>>150198853The story where Scrooge almost drowns in a suit of armour but he uses his lucky penny to undo the screws and swim free.>>150198973The Universal Solver was an important story? When I read it as a child I thought it was just another issue. Nice story though.
>>150198853I really liked the Nostradamus one as a comedy, but the lost library of Alexandria is by far my favorite adventure. >non-RosaShoot ya got me. Probably the Birgit Q storyline for a shorter one or Korinna/Jupiter's for a longer arc.Off top I think a Barks(?) one where Donald was a pyro really stuck out to me as funny. The one page stories of various authors are always good for a treat.
>>150199310100% my favorite too
>>150198853Does anyone know the name of a story about ships made of ice? Also a story about a polar bear who was terrorizing an eskimo town because she had lost her cub. They were both parts of larger stories and I never got to learn afterwards.
"Donald Duck and the Store of the Worlds"It's an Italian adaptation of a story by Robert Sheckley (https://archive.org/details/beyondarmageddon00mill/page/38/mode/2up), featuring Donald looking for an escape from his miserable life:
>>150198853You can choose for me
>>150198853Which book should be my first purchase if I want to get into ducks?
>>150209385Probably some bread baking books, you gotta lure them close first
>>150209526Jokes on you you fucking idiot, I'm a classically trained bread baker, I don't need a book for that.
>>150209385Just grab someting from your local newsstand.
>>150209710I don't live in the 80s.Man, for all the hype /co/ has for duck books I figured someone could recommend something. This board blows.
>>150209734>I don't live in the 80s.Thay don't sell duck comics where you live anymore? If that's so, grab a Carl Barks omnibus from your local library.
>>150209710Bro
>>150209734>This board blows.I'm writing you a reccomendation, I just want to bump the page before I finish cuz we're on 10.
>>150198853Duck specifically? For all I beg people to understand there's more to the world than Don Rosa, it's probably A Letter from Home. One of the few comics to make me weep.Otherwise, I've always loved that one Italian parody of Les Mis, and I've strong childhood memories of this one comic named Zio Paperone e L'Avventura in Formula 1
>>150206509>Off top I think a Barks(?) one where Donald was a pyro really stuck out to me as funny.oh shit that one too yeah, one of the few Barks stories I remember chancing upon as a kid and it was a favourite to read
>>150209734>>150211237I think starting from the beginning of Don Rosa's run is a great way to get into ducks. He basically writes within a continuity he's attempting to establish around all of the original Carl Barks comics. His stories are generally not in chronological order (although there have been attempts to arrange them as such) and I think reading them as he wrote them is a good way to get introduced to many of the recurring characters and concepts.If you wanted something a bit more focused, you could start specifically with "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", a 12-issue arc (by Don Rosa) that is basically what it says on the tin—a story that recounts Scrooge's origins up until he unites with Donald and his nephews.The Fantagraphics collections are excellent books and feature the entirety of Rosa's works in 10 volumes. If you like his stuff, you can also dip into the original Carl Barks stories. They're just harder to recommend, in my opinion, because they're more inconsistent in quality, and there're also about a hundred times more of them than what Rosa wrote, but they're still damn good. Fantagraphics also has some anthologies that collect iconic works from Barks, Rosa, and some European duck artists as well, if you're interested.
>>150211276>>150211284Sorry, just thinking of childhood stories now that've forever stuck with me- I also remember this one Italian story where Scrooge and family get tricked into taking the Flying Dutchman from a South American country to Duckburg, with the ship bringing disaster and badluck always near it. Again Cavazzano art I think, and I remember some pretty great stuff, a flashback showing the ship's captain playing dice against the devil, etc.Also yet another Cavazzano, I'm pretty sure, but does anyone remember this other story where Scrooge and Rockerduck are competing to build a bridge, and IIRC Rockerduck nearly wins because he figures out how to use corals to build it, but then loses because tourists swarm in each to take a bit of coral as a souvenir and destroy the entire thing?
>>150211318Oh yeah, I remember both. If I remember correctly, Scrooge starts the trend by picking a piece of coral to remind him of his loss.Great stuff.
