Mutts isn't horrible; Mutts is sweet. I realize that the word "sweet" has been devalued as all fuck in our culture, but in this case, it fits, and the comics page is better for its presence.

And who will have won when the soldiers have gone…
…from the Lebanon?

I aim to please.

Carl Barks died in 2000. I guess you can't complain about living 'til ninety-nine and remaining entirely lucid and mobile throughout

To answer your questions: yes, yes, and yes. I'm a huge fan, and I know at least a handful of other AVclubbers are as well. The market isn't much in the US, probably because most Americans have exactly the same reaction that you did, but they're still huge in Europe.

Goddamn right. Though to be fair, some of the Lustig/Van Horn Ducktales comics are pretty okay.

"Dream of a Lifetime" is NOT a Ducktales comic.
Don Rosa will disembowel anyone who suggests as much.

Thinks this shit is in some way clever.

Inexplicably over-defensive reaction? Huzzah for the internet!

Is there truly ANYBODY whom NOBODY wants to stab in the face? Think about it.

Yeah, but hilarious in a completely un-self-aware way, which is precisely the opposite of AD's aesthetic.

Fuck THIS shit.
I think I speak for everyone when I say that what we REALLY want is a fan-made completion of Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix. One that doesn't suck, obviously.

>>Then they edited everything to make everyone he visited look insane.

Fair enough, I suppose. But it would be totally sweet if things like this didn't exist. I don't want to make specious "good old days" arguments, but it sure seems to ME like we're living in an unusually decadent era.

I feel like I'd have no choice but to kill myself if I watched this.
Gleeful embracing of irredeemable trash as a "guilty pleasure" makes me feel distinctly queasy. Is it overly puritanical of me to suggest that there are some guilty alleged-pleasures that REALLY fucking shouldn't be indulged?

Definitely unfocused, but I thought most of the vignettes were good enough that I just didn't care. Can't even BEGIN to remember how I did, small-medal-wise.

Favorite Dragon Quest?
For me, it's V—for what I think are fairly obvious reasons—followed by VII, which I know is much-maligned, and granted the translation sucks pretty hard, but HOLY SHIT was I ever addicted to it for the hundred-twenty-odd hours it took me to play through it back in the day.

Okay, but that seems like a pretty obvious semantic point to me. Propaganda can be interesting stuff, but I would hope for a somewhat more complex thesis from a study thereof.

…and one of those old comics that Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ripped off was one of Floyd Gottfredson's old Mickey Mouse serials, entitled "The World of Tomorrow." Full fuckin' circle!

Could somebody explain to me what this means?
>>…the strong point of is his ability to demonstrate that even comics we think of as noble are essentially little more than propaganda. For instance, people may be conditioned to think of comics with an anti-racist viewpoint as advocacy, not propaganda, but Stromberg (who…