Hey, @lettheladylead! :D So, I read Filo & Brigitta e l'impresa spaziale, the Jubal & Brigitta story featuring Gladstone. Turns out Fethry appears, too...
Basically, it all starts when Scrooge catches Jubal lurking outside the Billionaires’ Club, moping and wishing he could finally have his own seat there. Scrooges teases Jubal and tells him all of his business ventures just aren’t ambitious enough to make him rich, so Jubal takes offense at that and impulsively replies that he could take on any ambitious project, even a private space agency. Then Scrooge is like, “oh, yeah, right, if you somehow manage that, I’ll give you my own chair at the club!”, so Jubal has to run and get Brigitta and immediately start working on this absurd project because businessman pride or whatever.
Lucky for the two of them, Gladstone wants to win this contest for new startup creators for some reason, and so he agrees to hang around and be their living good luck charm. With Jubal handling the technical stuff and Brigitta acting as their rocket pilot, everything seems to be going swimmingly and Jubal even wins his bet with Scrooge. But then the agency is hired to position a satellite in orbit to transmit football games live, and right before the launch, Brigitta hurts her leg while building a Money Bin model to give to Scrooge as a gift (yep, really)... and the only available pilot they can find to replace her is Fethry. Who promply manages to get the rocket stranded in orbit, ofc. Thankfully, the startup contest prize gets delivered to Gladstone just then and, wouldn’t you know, it’s just the device they need to control the rocket from a distance and bring it back down.
... however, to do that they have to get rid of excess weight, so they tell Fethry to dump the satellite. Which somehow ends up right above Gladstone’s house, allowing only him to watch the games live... and to make some money allowing football fans to watch them on his tv. Needless to say, the clients aren’t happy and Jubal decides he’s done with this whole space agency business.
Anyway, at least Scrooge is temporarily without a chauffeur because Quackmore is off at a butlers’ convention and he gets desperate enough to ask Brigitta to drive him around, so that’s a happy end for her, I guess.
Process gif of the cover created for the one-shot volume “Topolino contro Macchia Nera” (transl. Mickey Mouse against the Phantom Blot), 2013, INDUCKS.
It was recently announced that a story dedicated to the legendary Italian poet Dante Alighieri will be released in Italy in March. It will be adapted for Disney Ducks. Donald and Daisy Duck will play Dante Alighieri and Beatrice at a young age.
Beatrice was Dante’s “muse”, who throughout his life was “the mistress of his thoughts”, a wonderful symbol of the morally exalted feeling that he continued to cherish in her image. I think a very wonderful and cute story will come out!)
So I was a bit baffled by the “The first Illustrated Disney Story paying homage to the Supreme Poet” caption because, y’know, Guido Freakin’ Martina. That’s why I dug around a bit. According to this article, the PaperDante volume will contain:
- A reprint of Martina’s L’Inferno di Topolino
- A reprint of Chierchini’s L’Inferno di Paperino
- Macchetto’s and Perissinotto’s original story featuring Donald as Dante (or rather, PaperDante) and Daisy as Beatrice (PaperBice)
Rather than a normal comicbook story like the other two, the last one will be all text with illustrations in-between. You can see a preview of it here.
And here’s the plot:
“It’s hot as hell and Alighiero degli Alighieri (Uncle Scrooge) decides to leave for Villa Camerata, in the hills. But first he must find little PaperDante (Donald), who’s always hiding domewhere to daydream…
When the two of them reach Monte Ceceri, the young dreamer ends up in a cave full of noises. He walks in and, brave but clumsy, using a blade of grass as a sword, he faces that journey into the dark from which he’ll get out only thanks to the song of she who makes him lose his bearings, yet guides him and will always guide him: PaperBice (Daisy).
The sight of PaperBice will print itself into his mind and, in this sort of prequel to Dante’s work, we imagined that it will inspire him years later to write the Divine Comedy.”
Oh, hey! Just found out this isn’t even the ONLY way Disney Italia’s celebrating 700 years from Dante’s death!
In a few days, this volume is coming out with Martina&Carpi’s whole Messer Papero series gathered inside. The story is about Scrooge telling Donald of the incredible adventures of two of their ancestors, and all the famous people they met while wandering through Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Including Dante himself, fresh from his exile from Florence, and the notorious Count Ugolino (you might remember him from Canto XXXIII, Inferno...), Lorenzo the Magnificent, Amerigo Vespucci...
The volume also include in-depth articles about the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Italy.
There’s an incredibly detailed fansite devoted exclusively to the character, which you can find here: http://www.salimbeti.com/paperinik/en/paperinik.htm. The English version of the website is admittedly not so thorough as the Italian one, but it’s still an important resource for new and old fans alike - the webmaster is a bona fide expert whose name has even been referenced once in an official story, make of that what you will. The only downside, imo, is that the site is wholly devoted to the “classical” incarnations of Paperinik, thus glossing over the PK series apart from some sporadic mentions; on the other hand, this can be seen as a positive if you’re just starting out reading about the character, as knowledge of Paperinik’s normal stories and background is fundamental to fully understand PKNA and its sequels. If you’ve got any doubts or questions, or if you think that the information provided on the site I’ve linked is insufficient (since, as I’ve said, only a fraction of the articles on it have been translated to English), or if you now feel comfortable in your knowledge of the classical Paperinik and would like to know more about the PK series, please feel free to PM me whenever you want... Just keep in mind that, as you’ve probably noticed by now, my English is far from perfect. ‘xD
just a little appreciation drawing of these two cuties from that gorgeous new Gladstone comic- Mr. Blossom and Fitzy! I love it when people put so much personality and love into ‘side’ characters, definitely a new otp of mine, they’re so sweet ;v;
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