tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post6752634888770108096..comments2024-02-25T03:15:48.893-05:00Comments on News and Views by Chris Barat: Comics Review: WALT DISNEY TREASURY: DONALD DUCK VOLUME 1 by Don Rosa (March 2011, Boom! Studios)Chris Barathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-36424772059963473232011-05-30T23:37:52.708-04:002011-05-30T23:37:52.708-04:00Why not simply call the series DON ROSA TREASURY a...<i>Why not simply call the series DON ROSA TREASURY and reprint all of Rosa's non-LIFE AND TIMES OF $CROOGE Duck work from panel one? That would seem to make more logical sense.</i><br /><br />Because--as I somewhat murkily understand it--Boom doesn't actually have the rights to do single-creator collections like that, their L&T being the exception rather than the rule. They're seriously pushing against both the letter AND the spirit of the law with this book, so at least maintaining SOME sort of half-assed illusion that the venture is a non-specific Donald Duck thing rather than a Don Rosa thing in particular was essential (hence, also, those oddly irrelevant non-Rosa panels on the cover).GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.com