Blake Petit
March 3rd 2007, 12:47 PM
Review by: Blake M. Petit Blake@comixtreme.com
Quick Rating: Very Good
Title: Night of the Saracen and other stories
When the ducks seek a treasure from their ancestor, they wind up on a trip to the past!
Writer: Marco Rota, Donald Markstein, Bob Foster, Nils Petter Smeby, David Gerstein, Gorm Transgaard, Tony Isabella, Paul Hoogman, Frank Jonker, Thad Komorowski
Art: Marco Rota, Jose Maria Millet Lopez, Vicar, Bas Heymans
Colors: Kambrea Pratt, Kneon Transitt, Michael Kraiger, Egmont, Marie Javins, Scott Rockwell, Todd Klein, Susan Daigle-Leach
Letters: Willie Schubert, Anne Myerly, Susie Lee
Cover Art: Marco Rota
Publisher: Gemstone Publishing
1171/Uncle_Scrooge_363.jpgThis month’s slate of adventures with Scrooge McDuck kick off with Marco Rota and Donald Markstein’s “Night of the Saracen,” a fun little adventure in the best Carl Barks fashion. Donald stumbles across an ancient map that may point the way to the fabled treasure of his ancestor, the fearsome pirate Don Al-Din. Coming to Scrooge for help (which he agrees to for a mere 80 percent of the treasure), they set out to follow the map and locate the treasure. Rota really is doing a story in the grand duck tradition here – a high adventure with a lot of great humor to compliment it.
Next up is the short “Quacko-Quacko Island,” a short story starring Launchpad McQuack. The story is fairly straightforward – Launchpad is hired to fly someone somewhere, Launchpad is a terrible pilot. But it’s a fun gag strip, and it’s really nice to see him showing up more often these days. There are a legion of fans out there who grew up with Ducktails, and getting Launchpad back is a real treat. (If you want to give us, Christmas, a birthday and Arbor Day rolled into one, Gemstone, see what you can do about resurrecting Darkwing Duck!)
“A Dime in Time” is next, and it’s a lot of fun. Scrooge finds a map in his own handwriting pointing him to some parcel buried and hidden for 30 years. When Donald unearths the box, Scrooge is startled to find his own number one dime – but how is that possible? His dime is safe in its case at home. The resultant adventure brings in Magica DeSpell, Gyro Gearloose and a time machine escape route – it’s plenty of fun.
In “Designed to Sell,” Scrooge sends out his new product to Donald. The GLOM is a highly handy, highly annoying robot, programmed to continue demonstrating his usefulness to Donald until he acquiesces and agrees to buy it. Donald and the boys have to escape its clutches, but it won’t be easy.
Finally there’s the short “Fleece and Quiet.” Scrooge gets a device from Gyro to blank out the construction noise and other obnoxious sounds disrupting his work, but the Beagle Boys take advantage of the silent bin to launch their newest scam.
This is a fairly strong issue – none of the stories are home runs, but “Saracen” and “A Dime in Time” are both very good, and the rest of the book is at least amusing, if not outstanding.
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Quick Rating: Very Good
Title: Night of the Saracen and other stories
When the ducks seek a treasure from their ancestor, they wind up on a trip to the past!
Writer: Marco Rota, Donald Markstein, Bob Foster, Nils Petter Smeby, David Gerstein, Gorm Transgaard, Tony Isabella, Paul Hoogman, Frank Jonker, Thad Komorowski
Art: Marco Rota, Jose Maria Millet Lopez, Vicar, Bas Heymans
Colors: Kambrea Pratt, Kneon Transitt, Michael Kraiger, Egmont, Marie Javins, Scott Rockwell, Todd Klein, Susan Daigle-Leach
Letters: Willie Schubert, Anne Myerly, Susie Lee
Cover Art: Marco Rota
Publisher: Gemstone Publishing
1171/Uncle_Scrooge_363.jpgThis month’s slate of adventures with Scrooge McDuck kick off with Marco Rota and Donald Markstein’s “Night of the Saracen,” a fun little adventure in the best Carl Barks fashion. Donald stumbles across an ancient map that may point the way to the fabled treasure of his ancestor, the fearsome pirate Don Al-Din. Coming to Scrooge for help (which he agrees to for a mere 80 percent of the treasure), they set out to follow the map and locate the treasure. Rota really is doing a story in the grand duck tradition here – a high adventure with a lot of great humor to compliment it.
Next up is the short “Quacko-Quacko Island,” a short story starring Launchpad McQuack. The story is fairly straightforward – Launchpad is hired to fly someone somewhere, Launchpad is a terrible pilot. But it’s a fun gag strip, and it’s really nice to see him showing up more often these days. There are a legion of fans out there who grew up with Ducktails, and getting Launchpad back is a real treat. (If you want to give us, Christmas, a birthday and Arbor Day rolled into one, Gemstone, see what you can do about resurrecting Darkwing Duck!)
“A Dime in Time” is next, and it’s a lot of fun. Scrooge finds a map in his own handwriting pointing him to some parcel buried and hidden for 30 years. When Donald unearths the box, Scrooge is startled to find his own number one dime – but how is that possible? His dime is safe in its case at home. The resultant adventure brings in Magica DeSpell, Gyro Gearloose and a time machine escape route – it’s plenty of fun.
In “Designed to Sell,” Scrooge sends out his new product to Donald. The GLOM is a highly handy, highly annoying robot, programmed to continue demonstrating his usefulness to Donald until he acquiesces and agrees to buy it. Donald and the boys have to escape its clutches, but it won’t be easy.
Finally there’s the short “Fleece and Quiet.” Scrooge gets a device from Gyro to blank out the construction noise and other obnoxious sounds disrupting his work, but the Beagle Boys take advantage of the silent bin to launch their newest scam.
This is a fairly strong issue – none of the stories are home runs, but “Saracen” and “A Dime in Time” are both very good, and the rest of the book is at least amusing, if not outstanding.
Story:
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Art:
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Overall:
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