Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck Vol. 8: Escape from Forbidden Valley: The Don Rosa Library Vol. 8

The Don Rosa Library #8

by Don Rosa, David Gerstein (Editor)

In search of rare Amazonian nutmegs, Scrooge and Donald approach deadly Forbidden Valley... a lost world of live dinosaurs whom Donald once stampeded! Now the long-suffering locals get revenge by throwing Donald in with the dinos ― and only Scrooge can save himl!  In “The Quest for Kalevala,” Scrooge, Gyro, and Magica De Spell hunt for a legendary gold-making machine... and in “The Black Knight,” master thief Arpin Lusene arrives to rob Scrooge’s money bin ― or destroy it!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Adventure, Comic Book, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics

227 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2017

About the author

Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known as Don Rosa, is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his Disney comics stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and other characters which Carl Barks created for Disney-licensed comic books, first published in America by Dell Comics. Many of his stories are built on characters and locations created by Barks; among these was his first Duck story, "The Son of the Sun" (1987), which was nominated for a Harvey Award in the "Best Story of the Year" category.
Rosa created about 90 stories between 1987 and 2006. In 1995, his 12-chapter work The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck won the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story.

Reviews

[Mateen Mahboubi · Rating 3 out of 5]

A couple good stories and a few so-so ones. My kids loved this one though, as expected.

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading these to my son. And Rosa writes a lot of Barks sequels and my son is very interested in those now. I’m excited to keep reading Scrooge and Donald comics to him once we finish volume 10.

[Baal Of · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am finding great joy in reading these stories for the first since these were all published after I had stopped collecting individual comics. Rosa continues to be a worthy successor to Barks, producing fun, imaginative stories that build on the adventure side of the works. I loved the story about the origins of the boys involvement in the Junior Woodchucks, and I always liked their transition from unruly troublemakers into resourceful and indispensable participants in the crazy adventures. The Black Knight was another great story that plays with absurd physics, in this case a "universal" solvent painted onto a suit of armor. Yeah, it doesn't really make sense that a solvent would act instantaneously, and would eliminate inertia of the substances hitting it, but this is a cartoon world in which it is acceptable to take such liberties, and the results are hilarious.

I didn't like The Sign Of The Triple Distelfink but that's because I hate Gladstone Gander with his complete reliance on luck, and I always disliked him even when I was a kid. I'm with Donald on this one.

The Cowboy Captain Of The Cutty Sark has some fantastically weird and awesome moments, with Scrooge riding Hortense across the blobs of pumice floating in the sea.

The final story The Quest For Kalevala was beautiful and dreamlike, running with Finnish mythology and warping it into the world of Barksian ducks. Rosa really outdid himself on this particular story, and it is a perfect example of how he shines when doing the extended adventures. An excellent way to end yet another great collection.

[Uuttu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Don Rosan ankkatarinoita kovissa kansissa. Tavallisesti neljän tähden, mutta tässä albumissa oli poikkeuksellisen paljon väritysvirheitä, joita ei tällaisissa toivoisi: ensimmäisessä tarinassa isossa roolissa olleen vihikoira Nuuh'n silmät on väritetty monissa kuvissa kokonaan ruskeiksi eli sillä ei ole valkuaisia ollenkaan...

En ole myöskään itse lämmennyt tämän julkaisun tyylille jättää ääniefektit ja sarjojen nimet kääntämättä.

[Lindsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here is another hilarious, masterfully told collection of adventure stories from Don Rosa. I'm always hard-pressed to choose a favorite story in his volumes, but "Escape from Forbidden Valley" is a fun, dinosaur-filled romp and the Finnish "Quest for Kalevala" is undeniably epic.

[David Corleto-Bales]

Don Rosa, the Carl Barks super fan, who took over where Barks left off in 1966 twenty years later with the world of Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck and Duckburg has in his brilliance surpassed the original concept. His complex and varied stories put him in the top echelons of all cartoonists in history.

[Nerdmaling · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vi har många barn och någon vuxen som läser Don Rosa på biblioteket och denna är en av de som blivit uppskattadde.

Det här är inte så mycket en recension utan mer en utmaning. Läs Don Rosa. En serieupplevelse och en kommande klassiker.

Serier när det är som bäst.

[Sha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am going to give this collection five stars for the gorgeousness of the Quest for Kalevala, but all of the other stories were pretty solid too.

[Francesco · Rating 5 out of 5]

C'è la mitica "Quest of Kalevala", ma c'è anche la prima apparizione del Cavaliere Nero.
E l'agrodolce storia sulla fortuna di Gastone

[BVZM · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review is coming, probably. Be patient.
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Recensione in arrivo, probabilmente. Abbiate pazienza.

[Raji (WorldsUnlikeOurOwn) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Jameson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish there were 20 volumes instead of 10.

[Nicholas Driscoll · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was another great volume from Don Rosa. I am sad there are only a couple more after this volume! I enjoyed most of the stories in this volume to some degree or another--it was enjoyable to find a parody of Lupin in here, and the origin of Gladstone's luck was fun. But by far the story I enjoyed the most was the return to Forbidden Valley! I just love dinosaurs so much, and I really dug the references to King Kong (Rosa goes over some of the references he includes, but apparently forgot at least one in the text at the back!) I wasn't a big fan of the Finnish folklore inspired tale, but it was great to hear that it went over so well in Finland--Rosa is such a celebrity over there! I wish I could visit! Maybe someday I can.

[Krzyś Dz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rosa!