Review: Disney's Golden Age Comics: Rare Classics Collection... · 10:52am Jan 25th, 2016
The DSM is so incredibly boing I started reading a book about how to spontaneously conduct clinical interviews and read the introduction of a book titled 'Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self.' Oh, and instead of reading up on Mood Disorders, this week I read five (technically six) of Disney's golden age comics. Thank GOD.
I was so depressed, and now I feel like I've marathon-ed six disney movies with the same childhood wonder of watching them again for the very first time. I now know, after being poisoned by the apple, Snow White marries Prince Buckethead and moves into his castle in the clouds (a cynical double entandere if ever there was). I know now the evil queen had an evil-er brother, that the huntsman becomes a messenger, that the seven dwarves used a magic lamp to wish Dumbo into existence, and that Timothy really needs to learn how to swim.
I honestly think Bambi is improved by the comic narrative, as there's not enough time for one to over think the inappropriate nature of Thumper being tea-bagged by the little fawn. Fortunately, critter emasculation by virtue of baby talk is completely avoided. Alice in wonderland teaches one how to journal the sequence of nonsensical events following a daydream when you should be taking history lessons. Finally, Peter Pan goes from sparrow to jack of all trades, when he achieves the status of captain and great white hunter shortly after rescuing Tiger Lilly, Wendy, and the lost boys.
Tinkerbell was unavailable for comment, not that this iteration of her character was more vocal than a mime. But, I really liked the four color picture book quality of most of the entries in this collection, not to mention Dumbo would be a real surprise if you didn't give the cover a good once over. . . so kids would definitely be in for a treat. Overall I'd give Disney's Golden Age Comics: Rare Classics Collection five stars. Sadly, I have to subtract a star because the Mickey's performance as the brave little taylor was missing :-(
Talk about almost perfect. You don't offer a person a steak and then leave them the bones, not everyone is foot loose and fancy free.
That reminds me, I saw this movie called 'Penelope' recently. It was really good compared to movies I've seen in recent years. Between that and 'Miss Match' I would definitely select Reese Witherspoon as competent producer for, you know, stuff. The plot is kind of like Beastly, or maybe 'Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire' would be a better comparison. A gypsy (who appears immortal and both genders) curses this family's bloodline because her/his daughter committed suicide. So, after being rejected by a member of the class one step above super rich upper middle class overlords (in theory) for being a member of the working poor. This possibly pregnant scullery maid, potentially 100 years earlier, caused an Orc named Ms Piggy- I mean Penelope, yes definitely Penelope, to be born... and apparently in an unusually ironic twist of fate, there is no man on God's green earth who genuinely wants her for just her body or her money... Then Dominic Deegan: Reporter for Hire, played by Peter Dinklage, conscripts Kermit the frog- sorry James McAvoy, not Kermit because that would make everything silly, to pose as the last heir of the *Campione estate and take Penelope's picture.
*as a well established family of gatekeepers, and the one known only to fairy tail enthusiasts who like to execute justice with more notoriety than the Phantomhive, Lovelace, Donovan families combined; I half expected Nancy Drew levels of fun from a Campione. It's a good movie. Not as good as Fun-size or Tucker and Dale, but a good family movie that should be seen more than once or twice.
OMG! Someone should make that movie, Nick Buckeye as Spark and Peter Dinklage as Dominic would be awesome.
http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2002-05-21