I mentioned over in this week's Comics Panel that I'm reading Fantagraphic's "Seven Cities of Gold" volume of reprinted Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge comics. Short version: It's great. I have the "Son of the Sun" volume of Don Rosa's later Uncle Scrooge comics on deck after that.

Sensible of them. Thanks for the explanation!

They're really lovely.

I've heard that about Rosa, but haven't read any of his stuff—yet. But I have the first volume of Fantagraphic's reprint of his work, "Son of the Sun," and it's up next in my TBR pile.

I'm about halfway through one of Fantagraphic's hardbound reprints of Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge comics, "The Seven Cities of Gold," which I think is the second one published so far. (I've already read several of the Donald Duck reprints, plus the previous Uncle Scrooge collection "Only a Poor Old Man," and I have no…

Yeah, but where's the gorilla?

… OK that would be amazing.

I guess adding Hoth and Bespin to the World Showcase is one way to boost attendance at EPCOT.

I hear you, and largely agree—I prefer Busiek's & Nicieza's runs to Ellis', too. I'd happily add another book to my pull list right now if it was about the nature of redemption and also stuff like Secret Empire kill-derbies, or Humus Sapien, or the V-Battalion every month.

Busiek & Mark Bagley's run is what got me into comics, so I'd highly recommend that. It has a much different tone than Ellis' run, of course, and a lot happens between those two writers' turns at the helm. It'll definitely give you some interesting counterpoints to how Ellis uses Moonstone & Songbird.

Oh, I had no idea who he was, either, really—but honest, you get everything you need to know about him (and all the other also-rans) in those issues. It was just that when I looked him up later, I was all the more impressed that Ellis had wrung really emotional beats out of what was a joke of a character.

I've really, really enjoyed Gotham Academy so far—great art, engaging characters, fun story—but it often seems like the team needs an extra page or two to fit things in and let the story flow a little more smoothly. Lacking that, the issues keep feeling somehow rushed.

Oh yeah, American Eagle's "fight" with Bullseye was gleefully satisfying after all Bullseye's swaggering around, crippling people.

Ellis' Thunderbolts made me give a damn about Jack Flag, which is something I would never have expected.

The tank fight is great, too, and my other choice for top spot would be when Henry, Sallah, and Marcus are peering over the cliff thinking Indy fell… and Indy stumbles over to see what they're looking at. Ford looking around at them, puzzled, before they notice him, is a great bit.

Hell yeah, that part—Connery's reactions are fantastic throughout, but "Look what you did!" is a highlight.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade has no shortage of moments like this for me (the castle infiltration alone is gold, with "I should have sent it to the Marx Brothers!", the "Dad! / What?" gag, "Our situation has not improved," etc.), but the killer is always the knight's reaction to Donovan's death.

"Did you get a virus?"
"Um… no…?"
"Did you get 400 thousand viruses?"
"Yes… Very yes!"

"Stampeding cattle."
"That's not much of a crime."
"… through the Vatican?"
"Kinky. Sign here."

I've always been partial to the episode with the recurring "Meow" gag, particularly the Irish Drinking Song ending—between Drew flubbing his verse, Ryan shouting gibberish in response, the cameras cutting back and forth to try and find someone not corpsing, and then Colin demolishing everyone with "Meow" and finishing…