Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Trail of the Unicorn by Carl BarksMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Trail of the Unicorn contains 20+ Donald Duck comics from the late 1940s and early 1950s, all written and illustrated by Carl Barks.
This isn't my first trip to the Carl Barks library but it's the first Donald Duck volume I've read. Inside are 20+ stories of Donald Duck and his nephews, frequently pitted against his dastardly cousin Gladstone Gander or nature itself. Uncle Scrooge is here but isn't in fine adventuring form just yet, he sends Donald on quests instead of leading the expeditions himself.
There's a good mix of tales here, adventures, slices of life, and people learning lessons. Barks gets a lot of mileage out of the boys from Duckburg. You don't often see an uncle and a nephew battling with steam shovels on Christmas Eve. He's a masterful cartoonist as well, adept at conveying emotion in just a few pen strokes. He doesn't skimp on the backgrounds, either, though no one in their right mind could blame him if he did, this being kids' comics from seventy years ago.
While it's lacking in Uncle Scrooge, I enjoyed Trail of the Unicorn quite a bit. Four out of five stars.
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