Disney comics: Two of Don Rosa stories will never be published again

[Zkuq]

JWeinCom said:

Zkuq said:

@JWeinCom Yeah, I know what he's like. It's not exactly a glorious representation, but I'd argue that this hardly does any harm to anyone. He probably barely got any attention before this, and my personal experience is that I don't remember paying any particular attention to him as a child (beyond him being a zombie, of course, which felt like his dominant feature by far to me). I have some understanding for e.g. some concerns about certain traditions involving poor representations, but this seems like excess caution. Well, I guess it's not necessarily excess caution, since there's a non-zero chance this could've caused an outrage at some point - which is actually what I have an issue with, and Disney acting on it is just a symptom... Oh well.

There's also really zero benefit to publishing anything with this character. How much money are they generating off of reprints of 20+ year old Donald Duck comics? How many people that are buying them will now refuse to because these issues are missing?

So, you're in charge of this whole thing now. You can decide whether or not to publish it. Can you think of a financial (talking dollars and cents here) reason to republish these? Cause, if anything, this is a symptom of capitalism, which I generally favor. 

And that's one thing I personally dislike about capitalism. For the relatively few people that would still be interested in this, this makes it harder to find this, and this also hinders preservation (although there's probably quite many copies of these comis in circulation). As far as I care, this is a fairly close relative to censorship, so I don't like it being done for what seems like a fairly petty reason. Of course that's just my opinion.

Last edited by Zkuq - on 16 February 2023