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Must Be the Season of the Alchemist

Hospital, by Han Song, translated by Michael Berry – This is a pretty bizarre book, partially a satire on the medical industry, with the hospital system essentially taking over the world, then branching out from there into increasingly surreal territory. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Animals, Art, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Buddhism, carl barks, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Health, Humor, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology | Tagged city of the plague god, corn jenny, daffy-o, daisy duck, demons, donald duck, duck luck, dumuzi, franz kafka, fury of the dragon goddess, gulliver's travels, gyro gearloose, han song, hollow earth, hospital, huey dewey and louie, ishtar, jack frost, jack in the green, jonathan swift, junior woodchucks, lucian of samosata, ludvig holberg, lugal, magica de spell, michael berry, middlegame, monkeys, niels klim, niels klim's underground travels, rabisu, rick riordan presents, sarwat chadda, satire, scrooge mcduck, seasonal fears, seasons, sikander aziz, stingy jack, stranger than fiction, tammuz, the madcap mariner, the terrible tourist, true history |

Through an Uskglass Darkly

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 adze, anansi, beagle boys, big bad wolf, bob gregory, carl barks, christmas in duckburg, donald duck, fairies, grandma duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, jonathan strange and mr norrell, napoleon bonaparte, piranesi, rick riordan presents, rocket-roasted christmas turkey, roseanne a. brown, scrooge mcduck, serwa boateng, serwa boateng's guide to vampire hunting, susanna clarke, the lovelorn fireman, tristan strong, vampires, vic lockman |

Duck and Cover

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 |

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

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 |

Going Blotto

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 |

Jumping Jupiter!

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 |

Up in the Air, Junior Birdgirl

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 |

Life’s Good for the Multiplujillionaires

Uncle Scrooge: The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan, by Carl Barks – The library system now has another volume in Fantagraphics’ series of reprints that I hadn’t yet read. I’m not totally sure whether I should keep the ones I … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Disney Afternoon, Humor, Television, Video Games | Tagged a cold bargain, abominable snowman, back to long ago, beagle boys, blackheart beagle, bombastium, brutopia, carl barks, don rosa, donald duck, ducktales, fantastic river race, faulty fortune, flintheart glomgold, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, hypnosis, land beneath the ground, land of the pygmy indians, ratchet gearloose, scrooge mcduck, terries and firmies, the lost crown of genghis khan, the second-richest duck |

Disney Does Dali

Mickey and Donald: The Persistence of Mickey – The lead story in this volume is based on the real-life collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali. They worked on an animated short called Destino, but due to cost issues, all … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged 2061 odyssey three, andrea castellan, argus mcswine, arthur c. clarke, donald duck, europa, giorgio cavazzano, goofy, gyro gearloose, halley's comet, joe torcivia, jupiter, mickey mouse, pete, robert gagnor, salvador dali, surrealism, the persistence of mickey, walt disney |

Just Ducky

It’s too bad that, these days, the default Google suggestion for “Donald” is our not-so-esteemed president rather than the duck. The two of them do have something in common (aside from the terrible temper), in that both had mothers from … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Humor, Monsters | Tagged carl barks, daan jippes, donald duck, donald duck timeless tales, dragons, duck avenger, fethry duck, gladstone gander, goofy, grandma duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, john lustig, magica de spell, mickey mouse, paperinik, scrooge mcduck, secret of hondorica, the big sneeze, the call of c'rruso, the duck who came to dinner, the ghost sheriff of last gasp, the unorthodox ox, too safe safe, walt disney, walt disney comics and stories, wispy willie |