Rosa Remarks: a Don Rosa Podcast

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Rosa Remarks is a podcast from the makers of Barks Remarks: a Carl Barks Podcast that explores the stories of Don Rosa, famous for his own Donald and Scrooge comics taking place in the universe created by Barks. Each episode chronologically explores one of Rosa's stories, its creation, a capsule summary, its cultural context and Barks connections, and our favorite elements.

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25 - Island at the Edge of Time

Apr 14 2024 76 mins

Guest Host: Alban Leloup | Time! It's time to set your watch, and give this episode a listen, as we discuss this time-focused Scrooge adventure! Join us as we wrap our heads around the international date line, ponder Talespin, and debate whether Glomgold is less of a heel than Scrooge in this story.

24 - Incident at McDuck Tower

Mar 07 2024 72 mins

Guest Hosts: A.C. Sivebæk & Ted Johansson | Listeners, get your safety gear ready, as we journey close to the top floor of McDuck Tower! My guests and I discuss this classic Rosa ten-pager, with its dark humor and great use of onomatopoeia!

23 - the Duck Who Fell to Earth

Feb 21 2024 77 mins

Guest: Chand John | Greetings, listeners! Grab your yard-sale spacesuits and gear up to journey through the atmospheric layers and rapidly back down again! We're talking "the Duck Who Fell to Earth" and its top-notch scientific story-telling!

22 - Return to Xanadu

Jan 29 2024 94 mins

Guest Host: Harry Fluks (founder of INDUCKS) | Listeners, join us as we discuss one of Rosa's masterpieces, a sequel story that weaves two classic Barks tales together, along with a classic Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem and some of the most thrilling and affecting storytelling seen in any Disney comic!

21 - Treasure Under Glass

Jan 02 2024 83 mins

Guest Host: Thomas "Dillerpanda" Schrøder | Listeners, journey with us, to the surface, then to the bottom of the Spanish Main! As we venture deep to discuss Rosa's classic treasure hunt tale, "Treasure Under Glass," a high concept masterpiece!

20 - On Stolen Time

Dec 19 2023 70 mins

Guest Host: Bucket Think Tank | <CLICK!> Listeners, why not stop time long enough to take a leisurely listen to our episode on Rosa's time-stopping classic? Listen as my guest and I discuss the mechanics of Gyro's invention, how well balanced the character action is in this one, and some of the ramifications of the device!

19 - the Master Landscapist

Dec 06 2023 69 mins

Guest Hosts: Mikkel Hagen & Ruben Olsrud Get out your...lawnmowers? Donald has had a lot of "Brittle Mastery" moments, but nothing like his turn as the "Master Landscapist!" My guests and I discuss Rosa's take on Barks' story typology in this episode!

18 - the Money Pit

Nov 26 2023 70 mins

Guest Host: Orion Trunk Greetings listeners! Join us as we delve into the depths of Scrooge's money bin, and encounter the valuable coins buried within! Try to resist the urge to sell them, however, as that way lies ruin...My guest and I discuss Rosa's follow-up to Carl Barks' legendary "the Trouble with Dimes" ten-pager, with its thesis about the folly of Col

17 - the Pied Piper of Duckburg

Nov 06 2023 65 mins

Guest: Nils Lid Hjort Welcome to a very special episode, a cross-post with the Barks Remarks podcast! We are discussing Rosa's take on one of Barks' Gyro Gearloose stories, that the Duck Man abandoned in roughly 1958 or 1959, after penciling just 3 pages. The editors later assigned Don Rosa to provide his take on a complete story, published in 1990. Dutch comics legend Daan

16 - Making the Grade (and additional short gags & stories)

Oct 24 2023 76 mins

Guest Host: Markku Mujunen | Listeners, this episode covers an assortment of Rosa stories, gags, and ephemera; all the short Disney comics that didn't quite merit their own episode. Many of these were written by other writers (generally from the Netherlands), and one was ONLY written by him. "Making the Grade" receives the main focus, as the only finished story of t