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Through an Uskglass Darkly

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Nathan

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke – The author’s debut novel was recommended to me because I liked her Piranesi.This book was much longer and more complicated, but I liked it. It takes place in the early nineteenth … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christmas, Comics, History, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Rick Riordan | Tagged donald duck, carl barks, fairies, napoleon bonaparte, scrooge mcduck, big bad wolf, anansi, vampires, gyro gearloose, beagle boys, huey dewey and louie, grandma duck, rick riordan presents, tristan strong, piranesi, susanna clarke, jonathan strange and mr norrell, serwa boateng, serwa boateng's guide to vampire hunting, roseanne a. brown, adze, christmas in duckburg, rocket-roasted christmas turkey, the lovelorn fireman, vic lockman, bob gregory | 1 Comment

Goofy and Clownish Holiday Fare

Posted on December 8, 2022 by Nathan

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas – I kept seeing this recommended on Disney Plus, so I figured I might as well give it a shot. From 1999, it’s a collection of three different Christmas-themed cartoons, each featuring one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Disney Afternoon, Families, Holidays, Humor, Music, Names, Nursery Rhymes, Relationships, Television, Toys | Tagged a christmas carol, a very goofy christmas, a. robins, babes in toyland, banana man, beagle boys, cats, charles dickens, chip and dale, clowns, cricket on the hearth, crickets, crows, daisy duck, disney, dogs, donald duck, donald duck: stuck on christmas, ebenezer scrooge, figaro, gift of the magi, goof troop, goofy, groundhog day, huey dewey and louie, jack e. leonard, kelsey grammer, max goof, mickey and minnie's gift of the magi, mickey mouse, mickey's once upon a christmas, minnie mouse, monkeys, mortimer mouse, o. henry, peg-leg pete, pluto, rankin/bass, sam levine, santa claus, scrooge mcduck, silas barnaby, uriah caw, wally cox | Leave a comment

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Nathan

We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Sonic the Hedgehog, Technology, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adventures of sonic the hedgehog, babes in toyland, ballet, boogeyman, captain and tennille, clarence carter, clarence nash, dan castellaneta, dance, dogs, don knotts, donald duck, donkeys, donny osmond, dr. demento, dr. ivo robotnik, drew barrymore, duck the halls, dudley moore, el vez, elves, fat daddy, flaming lips, fozzie bear, free design, frosty the snowman, grounder, gus goose, j. otto seibold, jingle bell rocks, john denver, john linnell, john lithgow, john waters, johnny marks, laurel and hardy, lew zealand, liberace, little bo peep, long john baldry, ludwig von drake, macaulay culkin, march of the wooden soldiers, marie osmond, matt groening, michael stipe, mickey mouse, miss piggy, monkeys, nat king cole, nativity, north pole, nutcracker suite, olive the other reindeer, penguins, pigs, princess sally acorn, reindeer, robots, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, run dmc, santa claus, santa claus the movie, scratch, scrooge mcduck, sean marshall, sonic christmas blast, superman, susan cooper, the small one, the three little pigs, the twelve days of christmas, tom bosley, tom tom the piper's son, tom wilson, vivian walsh, wayne coyne, ziggy, ziggy's gift | Leave a comment

Duck and Cover

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Nathan

Today, I’m looking at two more Carl Barks comic collections. Uncle Scrooge: The Twenty-Four Carat Moon – The title story here has a rather wacky plot, Astronomers discover another moon behind the regular one that’s made entirely out of gold. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, carl barks, Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Disney Afternoon, Fairy Tales, Families, Food, Holidays, Humor, Technology, Television | Tagged amusement parks, beagle boys, bears, black wednesday, chickens, clara cluck, clarabelle cow, cornelius coot, daisy duck, disney, disneyland, don rosa, donald auf dem bauernhof, donald duck, donald duck and the one bear, donald duck and the witch next door, ducks, ducktales, flintheart glomgold, flying dutchman, goldilocks and the three bears, grandma duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, instant millionaire, little golden books, madam mim, mastering the matterhorn, pizza, riding the pony express, robots, scrooge mcduck, the christmas cha cha, the forbidium money bin, the twenty-four carat moon, the wax museum, uncle scrooge and his handy andy, uncle scrooge and the flying dutchman, uncle scrooge and the money champ, uncle scrooge and the twenty-four carat moon, under the polar ice, want to buy an island?, witches | Leave a comment

King Solomon’s Mines, Exit 75, I’m Still Alive

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Nathan

A Witch in Time, by Constance Sayers – This is another book I found at a discount from some promotion I don’t remember. It’s the story of Helen Lambert, a recently divorced woman who goes on a date with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, carl barks, Cartoons, Comics, craig shaw gardner, Fairy Tales, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Norse | Tagged a witch in time, arizona goof, arizona goof and the tiger's fiery eye, beagle boys, constance sayers, daisy duck, disney masters, don donald, donald duck, donna duck, ducks, goofy, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, john ruskin, ludwig von drake, massimo de vita, mickey mouse, morty and ferdie fieldmouse, pluto, scrooge mcduck, the golden river, the ice sword saga, the ice sword saga book 2, the mad doctor, the mines of king solomon, the money well, the prince of mists strikes back, the secret of 313, the sleeping beauty in the stars, witches | Leave a comment

Drag Out the Dickens

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Nathan

I can’t quite recall what my introduction to A Christmas Carol actually was. I have a memory of my dad reading it to me as a kid, quite possibly an abridged version, even though it’s pretty short as is. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Holidays, Humor, Muppets, Plays, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a christmas carol, bob cratchit, charles dickens, clarence nash, donald duck, ebenezer scrooge, fozzie bear, fun and fancy free, ghosts, giants, goofy, jacob marley, jim henson, kermit the frog, mickey and the beanstalk, mickey mouse, mickey's christmas carol, miss piggy, mr. mole, mr. toad, mr. water rat, peg-leg pete, rizzo the rat, robin the frog, scooter, scrooge mcduck, the adventures of ichabod and mr. toad, the muppet christmas carol, the wind in the willows, tiny tim, wayne allwine, willie the giant | 1 Comment

Going Blotto

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Nathan

I’m continuing with the Disney Masters series as available on Comixology, and I don’t have too much to say about the third and fourth volumes. Some good stories, but it’s more fun to write about the really crazy ones, and there … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Comics, Humor, Magic | Tagged carl barks, chief o'hara, disney, disney masters, donald duck, dondorado, eega beeva, el dorado, giovan battista carpi, goofy, guido martina, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, king of the golden river, mad hatter, me myself--and why?, mickey mouse, mickey the kid and six-shot goofy, phantom blot, rodolfo cimino, romano scarpa, scrooge mcduck, the eternal flame of kalhoa, the phantom blot's double mystery | Leave a comment

Jumping Jupiter!

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Nathan

Donald Duck: Uncle Scrooge’s Money Rocket, by Luciano Bottaro – The second in the Disney Masters series features the work of another Italian artist and writer, showcasing three imaginative madcap tales. In the titular story, when the Beagle Boys find … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Beatles, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, History, Humor, Music, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged aliens, beagle boys, chronos origins, disney, disney masters, donald duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, john lennon, jupiter, ku klux klan, luciano bottaro, martin luther king, moon, now then and everywhen, racism, rebo, robots, rysa walker, saturn, scrooge mcduck, time travel, uncle scrooge's money rocket, witches | Leave a comment

Disney, My Head Is Spinning

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Nathan

This time, I’m reviewing some more collections of Disney comics. Donald Duck: The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama, by Carl Barks – One of the better stories begins with the bizarre premise that canner P.J. McBrine is trying to ruin … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Comics, Humor, Video Games | Tagged andrea castellan, argus mcswine, atlantis, beagle boys, carl barks, daisy duck, dark mines of the phantom metal, darkenblot, dickie duck, dinosaurs, dodging miss daisy, donald duck, donald duck and the titanic ants, donald the milkman, ellroy bheezer, ellsworth bheezer, eurasia toft, flintheart glomgold, forbidden valley, goldie o'gilt, goofy, john d. rockerduck, magica de spell, mickey mouse, mickey mouse timeless tales volume 3, mynah birds, orichalcum, p.j. mcbrine, phantom blot, robots, rumpus mcfolw, scrooge mcduck, scrooge vs. scrooge, scrooge's last adventure, terries and firmies, the black pearls of tabu yama, the miner's granddaughter, the weregoof's curse, uncle scrooge timeless tales volume 3, william van horn | Leave a comment

Up in the Air, Junior Birdgirl

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Nathan

Lost Worlds, by Clark Ashton Smith – Joe Bongiorno’s Lost Histories from the Royal Librarian of Oz contains a few references to Smith’s work, including the sorcerer Eibon and Tsathoggua, his patron toad-god from Saturn, which made me interested in … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Oz | Tagged atlantis, averoigne, carl barks, clark ashton smith, donald duck, eibon, gyro gearloose, h.p. lovecraft, huey dewey and louie, hyperborea, joe bongiorno, lost histories from the royal librarian of oz, lost worlds, magonia, maria dahvana headley, robert e. howard, saturn, scrooge mcduck, the lost peg leg mine, tsathoggua, weird tales | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: scrooge mcduck

Through an Uskglass Darkly

Goofy and Clownish Holiday Fare

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Duck and Cover

King Solomon’s Mines, Exit 75, I’m Still Alive

Drag Out the Dickens

Going Blotto

Jumping Jupiter!

Disney, My Head Is Spinning

Up in the Air, Junior Birdgirl

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