Among other things, I saw this recently. It had some kick to it.

I also think that, collectively, Kill Bill is probably one of the best films made in the last decade. Not for the reasons you expect, though.

No, I don’t intend to clarify. Because. That would mean talking about it.

I bought a VCR today. The man said it came with no RCA cables, so he sold me some RCA cables that cost half as much as the VCR itself.

I assume you can guess the punchline.

We will take the cables back tomorrow.

Gladstone Comics is back in the form of Gemstone Publishing. Same people: Gary Leach, Susan Daigle-Leach, John Clark; it just seems that they have parted ways with Bruce Hamilton. They publish Don Rosa, William Van Horn, Daan Jippes, and everything. Seems that WVH now has a son named Noel, who does Mouse stuff. While he is not as interesting as his father, the influence is clear.

There are five books, in three formats, which more or less correspond to Gladstone 1’s original debut lineup: Uncle $crooge, WDC&S, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and DD Adventures. (Curious, on that last one, that they chose not to carry over the numbering from the first two Gladstone runs.) The first two are in the deluxe square-bound format that you might recall from the last year or two of Gladstone 2’s lifespan. The next two are in a standard, less expensive, more mainstream format. The final one is in the thick-n-small digest format (with which, you might remember, Gladstone experimented in the mid-late ’80s).

Were these not so expensive, I would have subscriptions to them all. This is important stuff. As far as I know, this is the only place where Duck comics are published in English. And there should be a sizey backlog of Rosa material, that he has built up at Egmont over the last half-decade or so.

For those not in the loop, this is the stuff which defines much of my personality, vocabulary, writing style, and knowledge of the world. Barks, Rosa, Van Horn, Taliaferro, Gottfredson. They, along with Tintin and Groucho Marx, are inadvertently responsible for the core of my being. Everyone who reads this, I recommend that you go to a comics shop and pick up an issue of Uncle $crooge — particularly one with a Rosa story. If you don’t already know what you’re in for, then you just don’t know.

There is… more.