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Iotunn - The Wizard Falls (EP) [February 18th, 2016] Country: Denmark Genre: Progresive Power Metal Format: FLAC

Lineup: Benjamin Møller Jensen - Vocals, Bass Jesper Gräs - Guitars Jens Nicolai Gräs - Guitars Bjørn Wind Andersen - Drums

Miscellaneous Staff: Eliran Kantor - Cover Art Benjamin Møller Jensen - Recording Bjørn Wind Andersen - Recording Flemming Rasmussen - Mixing, Mastering Kenn Hedegaard Eskildsen - Mixing (Track 4)

Tracklist:

The Wizard Falls - 06:08

Hammer of Injustice - 04:15

Given to Explore - 06:40

Nuclear Winter - 00:56

Frost - 07:50

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Disney's The Gremlins Over the Years

Chapter 1: Gremlins (Part 2)

This is Part 2 to Chapter 1. If you want to read Part 1 first, it's in the link below.

Due to the recent events with Epic Mickey Rebrushed, I thought of making a series of posts dedicated to Disney's infamous characters from the canceled WWII movie The Gremlins. The character designs of these guys have changed many times during the concept art process and over the years. Today, this is a collection of male Gremlin designs. The female Gremlins were called the Fifinellas, which I will get to them in the next post. For those discovering this, in summary, Disney was making WWII movies and shorts for the war effort. They were going to adapt Roald Dahl's first book about these guys, and several things like people getting tired of war movies and figuring out how to make the movie, which was canceled. I'm making these posts for fun and to help give artists ideas for their OCs and fanart. I would post some sample pictures and a minor breakdown in each post. I might miss some because there is so much, so this is just a handful of pictures and photos I collected over the years. We really need to make a Disney Gremlin's Wiki.

Anyways, let's jump into THE FUTURE!

Canceled Live Action/Animated Project (1992): Jumping forward into the future, Jerry Rees, director of The Brave Little Toaster, and Steve Leiva were trying to make a feature based on the original story with live action with animated gremlins like Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The illustrators for the project were Steve Moore and Frans Vischer. Again, GLAD they didn't we didn't get this style of the characters since they're far from the original designs. Here are two samples by Steve Moore.

Return of the Gremlins (2008): When Disney made those terrible DVD sequels, Dark Horse and Disney made a deal to reprint the original book, make merchandise, and release a three-part comic sequel in 2008. The first cartoonist was Dean Yeagle, but he could not finish, so DreamWorks artist Fabio Laguna came in to do the final issue. In this story, Old Pilot Gus's grandson, Young Gus, goes to Old Gus's home in Brittan to handle the property sale. But SURPRISE! It's inhabited by the Gremlins that Old Gus befriended during WWII. Chaos ensues...

Epic Mickey (2010): Now, the moment you've all been waiting for, the game that introduced most of us to Disney’s Gremlins. Here are the variants we remember split into two groups: 3D Gameplay and 2D Cutscenes. Going forward, some of these pictures are from the Epic Mickey Wiki.

3D Gameplay

2D Cutscenes

Epic Mickey Comic (2010): In the 64 page-long graphic novel, the only Gremlin character who appeared in the comic was Gremlin Gus.

Epic Mickey (2012): In the sequel, we get more variants of the Gremlins and a Gremlin Prescott redesign.

3D Gameplay

2D Cutscenes

Epic Mickey Comic (2012): Gremlin Gus was joined by Gremlin Prescott and Gremlin Jamface.

Donald Duck #18 Comic (2015 IDW): This is the crossover we have wanted since the Comic Cover. In a translated European Swedish comic of 'Rue Brittania!', Donald and Fethry get a new assignment: travel back in time to WWII and face the Gremlins to de-gremlin the airfield. Artists: Pencils and Ink by Flemming Andersen and Colors by Digikore Studios.

There's a lot more I could add, but we would be here all day. If this post gets popular enough, I will do more on the side before the game comes out. If there are changes to the Gremlins in the Reboot, I'll make a Part 3. Hope this post is a helpful source for old and new Gremlin and Epic Mickey fans alike!

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Omg i’ve missed them 🥲 *rare egmont appreciation post*

Look we all love to hate on Egmont’s pocket stories because they’re usually terrible. But I can’t be the only one who has genuinely missed them the last few months. When we say we’d rather have the Italian stories, we mean the new long saga’s. Not gag stories from 5 years ago. And I’d rather take an Egmont comic than 3 short sleep inducing mid Italian stories.

When an Italian comic is bad, it’s really really boring. When an Egmont comic is bad, it’s absolutely terrible, but miles more entertaining.

And it just has a certain charm to it you know. Egmont is able to make stuff that Panini would not dare to publish. When they brought back Mad Ducktor last year? That was crazy! He was completely out of character and the story made zero sense, but who dares to reuse a character that hadn’t been seen in a decade and then completely misinterpret everything? Only Egmont could do that. This sounds like an ironic compliment but I mean it. Because “The other side of me” is a terrible comic. But fuck me man it was funny. I was genuinely entertained. At the end of the day I had fun.

Egmont you guys are also the only place where we can get new 3 tiered comics that feel traditional. For example Italy has modernized themselves away from Martina traditions of excessive violence. But Egmont is still holding that tradition up. Together with that certain flavour of politics and social commentary. Egmont is the only one that delivers it in that certain way that just makes me feel nostalgic. and i need that in my pockets too man

Then the crazy stuff: Mickey talks with the dead, Scrooge joins a cult, Donalds dog gets replaced by an alien… You immediately know where that comes from.

Egmont pocket comics are iconic and I can’t miss them no matter how bad they might be. This was 4 pockets in a row with no new Egmont stuff and I couldn’t handle it man. I was starting to think we might never see TNT again. You see what this shit does to your brain? Missing TNT???

And hey. Sometimes they deliver genuine bangers. A gal for Gladstone, Dialing for disaster, Origins of a sorceress… The next masterpiece could be right around the corner.

Massimo Fecchi has gone to Italy and Flemming Andersen is drawing 4 tiered comics much more often. Egmont 3 tiers are gonna be rare. But please never stop making them.

Okay that was it back to hating

[duck-takes]

Hot take: Flemming Andersen’s artstyle has more Branca influences than Cavazzano influences.

I will now hide between the Ducktales fans before the comic people come after me

!!

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Looking by Flemming Andersen

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D 2006-173 - Uncensored Scrooge “Just this: There’s a rubber duck involved.”

this entire story is… wild. and full of terrible disguises.

translation under cut, but first this bonus:

Scrooge, in a terrible disguise and flanked by his nephews: Nobody needs to know. We would like to do business with you, and we can provide information - about some rather spicy interests of Mr. McDuck.

S: Just this: There’s a rubber duck involved.

Super shady dude: Now that sounds promising.

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haha snow queen parody

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In which Donald discovers the joys of crossdressing and being bi (review/analysis)

Hello, today, we’re going to look at Gender Blender (Inducks), a story written by Mark and Laura Shaw and drawn by Flemming Andersen, which was first published in 2005. Now my title above promises a lot, but this story delivers. In fact, it probably delivers a lot more than you actually want it to. This story is wild ride.

The premise is a stock comedic crossdressing plot, in which silly circumstances force Donald to dress as a woman. But there are weird sexual undertones right from the start and soon this story takes a strange direction. If ever there was a duck comic that called out for a queer reading, it is this one. The scans are from a German printing and because I don’t access to my old swedish copy of this comic, I’m going to use the german names.

I have a lot to say, so the rest is under the cut.

We begin with Donald reluctantly serving as Daisy’s dress form mannequin for a dress she is sewing. He is however quite reluctant and she is distracted by his furious expression.

She first covers it up with a paper bag, but soon decides that  the best way to hide Donald’s angry face is with a wig and makeup.  Lipstick on a duck bill looks super weird, by the way.

They’re interrupted by a knock on the door and Donald hides in a closet (very symbolic). It is, Gisela, the president of Daisy’s woman’s society and her cousin Wasti, who is an visit from the countryside, judging by his cowboy hat and boots. The club is going to hold a dance party and the cousin doesn’t have a dance partner. And she doesn’t want to leave him out of it, so something must be done. The president suggests a deal: if Daisy leaves Donald at home and instead takes the cousin to the party, Daisy will be made vicepresident of the society.

This makes Donald furious, of course. He rushes out in full drag and punches the living daylights out of Wasti. To explain himself, he then makes up a story that he is actually Daisy’s cousin Donna (which was of course the name of his girlfriend in an old cartoon). And Wasti apparently likes getting punched in the face, because he immediately takes a liking to Donna here. Gisela then makes an alternate deal: Donna can take Gisela’s cousin to the party instead and Daisy will still get the position. And since Daisy’s honor is on the line, Donald has to do it.

And to make sure Donald is convincing as a woman, Daisy is going to train him. The curriculum includes things like walking in high heels and the swinging your hips. Daisy even uses a whip, as if to underline the implied sado-masochism in the scene. Seriously, there are these strange sexual undertones to the whole story. Kids won’t pick up on them, but this is a weird read for adults.

Anyway, at the dance ball, Donna makes her big debut and the reaction is... well, the drawings above speak for themselves, even if you can’t read German. Any sexual subtext has become text at this point.  Notice the bizarre, elongated body propotions Andersen gives Donna.

Anyway, the men soon start competing for Donna, which escalates into a fistfight. The women at the party become jealous of this newcomer. And this leads to a peculiar joke:

“Gisela: What does she[Donna] have which we don’t have?

Daisy: You don’t wanna know...”

What? Is my mind irretrievably in the gutter or did the Shaws just make a dick joke?  And Donald’s reaction is even more remarkable:

Donald: “I did nothing, yet... These men have all lost their minds. Madly in love....  with me! Ha ha! A very exhilarating experience!”

He enjoys it! Yes Donald is bisexual in this story. At least, I can’t read him another way.

Although the emotional logic here is quite odd. Men getting in a fistfight over you might seem flattering in theory, but in practice would be frightening whether you are a man or a woman. This story works from the old stereotypical assumption that women enjoy male sexual attention unreservedly, but reality is of course much more nuanced.

And reading him as transgender is barely a stretch. Even if you don’t, Donald here is undoubtedly gender non-conforming and quite proud of his feminine performance as Donna. He even brags to Daisy that the pupil has surpassed the teacher because the men are more interested in Donna than Daisy. This angers Daisy and a competition about who is the more sexually attractive woman is on.

Of course, this is a very stereotypical, if cynical, portrayal of women and femininity, in which women get into jealous and “catty” competitions over who is most attractive. For all the gender and sexuality transgressions this story contains, it does rely on old-fashioned gender stereotypes.

As you can see, they literally knock the men about with the swinging of their hips, which I must admit is kind of funny. It is like a parody of the extreme hip movements some women in cartoons have (like Jessica Rabbit, for example) . However, one of the men gets too intimate with Daisy. This awakens Donald’s jealousy and anger, which leads to....

Donald loses his temper and starts beating the stuffing out of every man present. They wisely decide to leave. However, the same thing happens to Donald and Daisy, because the women’s society is not so happy about the two ruining their party.

The couple however reconcile, with Daisy interpreting Donald’s jealous anger as a sign of their love. Like everything else in this story, the emotional logic is bizarre.

I don’t what to think of this story. The frantic energy of the storytelling doesn’t allow for a single second of boredom, but the sexual overtones here are often quite disturbing.It’s too weird to be judged by any conventional standard.  Flemming Andersen’s cartoony art is however a perfect fit for this story.

I have complex feelings about the work of the Shaws in general, and this is perfect example of it. They have an ability to take a story idea and run with it as far as the rules of Duck comics will allow. They remind me of a famous review quote about Tom Lehrer, which said that his “muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste”.

I honestly find this audacity an admirable trait, but the quality of their stories vary wildly. They seem to either don’t think or don’t care about the implications of their stories. This can lead both to very good stories, such as the Lovecraft parody “The Call of C’Rruso“.  But also to terrible stuff like “Ring thrice and I’ll clobber you, my lad.” (shudder).

And inbetween, we find stories like this. The basic idea here is common to a lot of crossdressing comedy stories, like Billy Wilder’s “Some Like it Hot”  And like most of them, the reason crossdressing is supposed to be funny is because men performing femininity is assumed to be humiliating. It is a genre that relies on oldfashioned ideas about gender. But the story takes this clichéd premise to such extremes that it starts to breakdown in interesting, if disturbing ways.

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Hmmm

duck

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Scrooge: We’re not coming back to that death trap.

Gyro: But... but... you just have to learn how to deal with my inventions...

Gyro: B-but...

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I went on a rant about the different artists drawing the Donald Duck comics on Snapchat… maybe somebody will appreciate it? Part one, I may do more later

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Uncle Scrooge #27

Romano Scarpa, Thad Komorowski, Olaf Solstrand • Romano Scarpa, Flemming Andersen (a) • Henrieke Goorhus (c)

“The Bodacious Butterfly Trail,” Part 1 of 2! When Brigitta MacBridge and Huey, Dewey and Louie find a centuries-old insect with a built-in Columbus-era treasure map, can Scrooge McDuck not try to cash in?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Uncle Scrooge #27 preview. Can Scrooge McDuck not try to cash in? #comics Uncle Scrooge #27 Romano Scarpa, Thad Komorowski, Olaf Solstrand • Romano Scarpa, Flemming Andersen (a) • Henrieke Goorhus (c)

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A feature-length Donald Duck tale with the Tamers of Nonhuman Threats, Duckburg’s top-secret paranormalist patrol. A must-read for Disney and sci-fi fans!

Ducks in space! Donald Duck rejoins the Tamers of Nonhuman Threats—and ends up trapped on an alien planet, beak-to-beak with feathered freaks! This epic two-part adventure, collected from Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #739–740, showcases Disney Comics sci-fi masters Lars Jensen and Flemming Andersen at their interstellar best!

Donald Duck: Nest of the Demonbirds Lars Jensen, Flemming Andersen, David Gerstein, Dick Matena, Thad Komorowski (w & a) • Massimo Fecchi & Fernando Güell (c)

TPB • FC • $12.99 • 96 pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN: 978-1-68405-133-5

PREVIEW: Donald Duck: Nest of the Demonbirds A feature-length Donald Duck tale with the Tamers of Nonhuman Threats, Duckburg's top-secret paranormalist patrol. A must-read for Disney and sci-fi fans!

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GOD i found one of the issues of the ltb i had fully memorised as a kid and was just truly giddy from the investment i had poured into every panel coming back to me and when i went to see what the guy i depend on for ltb reviews had to say about it it was “WORST ISSUE IN YEARS, WORTHLESS DRIVEL, UNBEARABLE TORTURE” like i... i liked it... when i was eight...

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Jumping by Flemming Andersen

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Ducks do Lovecraft. Flemming Andersen.