IDW Publishing kicks off its new Disney line with Uncle Scrooge #1, and for some of you, this issue might be very familiar.
Uncle Scrooge #1
Jonathan Gray, Rodolfo Cimino (w) • Romano Scarpa (a) • Giorgio Cavazzano (c)
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Dave Gerstein here—Archival Editor of the IDW DIsney books. Thanks for the review!
FYI, though: neither of the Italian stories was as recent in origin as you thought. “Gigabeagle” was first published in Italy in 1966, as a sequel to a then-recent Carl Barks robot story. And “Stinker, Tailor, Scrooge and Sly” was produced in the 1980s, though first published in 2012. It’s our translations that are new, though now and then we do throw in some retro gags.
You expressed some concern about Scrooge’s treatment of the tailor and her partner; but Brigitta MacBridge and Jubal Pomp are longtime friendly rivals of Scrooge’s, which explains his attitude (relatively speaking—he is, of course, Scrooge). Brigitta and Jubal first appeared in Italian comics in the late 1950s, and have been appearing now and then in the USA (since 1990 and 2005, respectively). So Scrooge has a kind of history with them… just wait for Jubal’s *next* appearance, in just a couple months. (-:<
We did say a bit about Brigitta and Jubal in the back of the issue… in our "Cross Talk" column. We'll be running this column for at least the first few months of our books, just to make sure everyone's familiar with the Ducks' extended cast!
Great info David! Thanks for sharing!
(Actually, in my haste, my “info” included it own glitch: “late 1950s” for Brigitta and Jubal’s origins should have been “early 1960s.” Wak!)
Neat! And as it was written prior to the 1990s it would have been pronounced “Jigg-ah-beagle.” In the early 90s she computers started getting to the point where we started thinking about “Jiga” bytes we collectively decided that was silly, and started pronouncing it wrong until after repeated mispronunciation the pronunciation changed.
I have some lovely training manuals from back when WA was trying to transfer to the Metric system,which are emphatic it’s pronounced “Jig-ah.” They were looking out for us making sure we didn’t say “Gig-ah” like a dufus.
How did “as” autocorrect to “she”? Stupid cell phone keyboard.
Christopher Lloyd has a whole explanation of why it is called a jigawatt in BTTF instead of gigawatt that is essentially the same thing. I was about to go into it during the show, but thought, “naw… that’s I fight I don’t want to have right now.”
Matthew makes a Whodini reference. Nicely done.
I think both stories are good but Scrooge is a little out of character in the second story.