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Hello all.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, but as I noted in comments to the last entry, I DO have something big-ish and dumb-ish coming for the holidays, or something.\u00a0 In the meantime, though, I wanted to stick something here so I look less dead.\u00a0 So I grabbed a story more or less at random from Daisy and Donald.\u00a0 This one is…whoa!\u00a0 A late Bob Gregory joint!\u00a0 How’s\u00a0this<\/i>\u00a0going to turn out?\u00a0 Let’s find the truth.<\/p>\n

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And off the bat, I have to say, I’m grateful that the top panel tells us that Donald is saying things with a “grump!” and that the bottom panel clarifies that he needs a cure for grumpiness–because solely based on the visuals, I would have NO idea what mood Donald was meant to be in there.\u00a0 Time for Daan Jippes to redraw this, please!\u00a0 Actually, why doesn’t he just devote his career to converting the entire late-Western canon into something more readable?\u00a0 That would be good.<\/p>\n

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Jolly good fellowship.\u00a0 Clearly, that’s what we need more of.\u00a0 Would no doubt help with this Male Loneliness Crisis I keep hearing about.\u00a0 I’m not sure if “grumpy” is the first<\/i>\u00a0word I’d use for today’s white nationalist types, but…fair enough.<\/p>\n

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Hmm.\u00a0 This sounds like the premise for a movie I may have once seen.\u00a0 Or…several.\u00a0 Ahem, moving swiftly<\/i>\u00a0on–this story is weirdly focused on giving handkerchiefs to unfortunate people.\u00a0 Was that ever a thing?<\/p>\n

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And now, this.\u00a0 Like that Barks story where Donald has to help Gladstone on Thanksgiving, only dumber.\u00a0 Though the expression on Gladstone’s face in the bottom left is…something, certainly.\u00a0 You know exactly how Jippes would redraw this panel if for some insane reason he did redo this: it would be SUPER over-the-top frazzled\/hysterical-looking.\u00a0 So, I mean, this version here may not look GOOD, exactly, but at least it’s kind of different.\u00a0 You know.\u00a0 Score one for Gregory in this fight, I guess, though the final outcome of the game isn’t looking super-good for him.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of art, though–I’m not actually convinced that Gregory was particularly confident about his, given the need for a text box to specify.\u00a0 In this case, he’s being too hard on himself; that could easily be omitted with no loss in communication.<\/p>\n

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YOU MUST PRETEND TO BE AN ORDINARY GANDER!<\/p>\n

This is the slightly interesting part of the story–this stuff with Gladstone.\u00a0 Surely this general idea, or something like it, has to have appeared in other stories, but it still feels unusual enough to be interesting to me.<\/p>\n

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Well, sort of.\u00a0 It’s also quite confusing!\u00a0 Is Gladstone not allowed to have a chocolate malted because his luck is bad?\u00a0 What’s happening here?<\/p>\n

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I mean, that DOES seem to the case.\u00a0 I don’t know what else to tell you.\u00a0 The idea appears to be that Daisy and Donald started acting like Gladstone was unlucky, and then by the power of negative thinking, he actually BECAME unlucky.\u00a0 I don’t really think that’s what Gregory was trying to communicate, but I also don’t know what else he could have meant.\u00a0 Probably just another case of a lazy writer not thinking through what he was writing.\u00a0 It happens.<\/p>\n

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Gawd–I mean, I know this is pretty obvious, but the fact that this woman has no identity except as her father’s daughter does stand out.\u00a0 Gregory wasn’t TRYING to be sexist here–clearly, he just wanted to communicate the essential information, that she’s rich, in the most parsimonious way–but goddamn, dude.\u00a0 Is he going to marry her?\u00a0 Or is he going to forsake his sweetheart for the rich girl, and then it’ll turn out like An American Tragedy?<\/i>\u00a0 I mean, why not?\u00a0 His luck is still gone; he just THINKS it’s back.\u00a0 There’s a premise.\u00a0 Also, I want to congratulate myself on a reference that very few will get without looking it up.<\/p>\n

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And now, an ending that, again, is just confusing.\u00a0 The ending would make you THINK that Daisy is now grumpy because Donald’s hitting on other women, but…that really doesn’t seem to be the case?\u00a0 Neither a woman with a young daughter nor one referred to as “Mrs” codes as a possible love interest, so what are we even doing here?\u00a0 This is one place where the Jippes redraw would, at any rate, make the gag more comprehensible.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it is what it is.\u00a0 Apologies for this low-effort entry, but does anyone really want to argue that this was not a very low-effort story?<\/p>\n

Actually, just for kicks, let’s look at the cover of the book where this masterpiece was printed:<\/p>\n

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Seriously, tell me, what is the joke here?\u00a0 Is it just that Daisy is good at winning pandas?\u00a0 Both Donald and the carny seem distressed by her behavior, so…maybe?\u00a0 You tell me.<\/p>\n

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