Book 47 is Donald Duck: The Old Castle's Secret. Written and drawn by Carl Barks. More excellent Duck comics featuring a couple more appearances by Uncle Scrooge and the debut of Gladstone Gander. The titular story in particular is a classic
Been watching the old Fleischer studios Popeyes and turns out I'd never seen a good cartoon before
Book 46 is Doctor Who: Empire of Death by Scott Handcock from the screenplays by Russell T Davies. While Handcock does a game job with the novelisation, including some important details cut from the original, there's really no getting around that what Russell T Davies wrote is simply quite bad
You know it's a good one when you get this many top notch Donalds
Started getting these little kit-kat racecar things they do as an acceptably restrained snack and the serving size amuses me every time
This is giving me vibes of the Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow. In the 80s people started putting traffic cones on his head and the city has probably spent hundreds over the years removing them only for them to come back. Now its an icon they sell merch of
Book 45 is Memoirs of a Kamikaze by Kazuo Odachi, as told to Shigeru Ohta and Hiroshi Nishijima, translated by Alexander Bennett and Shigeru Ohta. A truthful and considerate account of what the young men forced into death went through. Odachi tells his story before no-one who remembers is left
One of my favourite Romita Sr. things is when he did a Peanuts parody strip and even one of the most celebrated and beloved comic artists of all time couldn't quite get Schulz's deceptively simple characters on model