Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4651179-20181113132311/@comment-217293-20181114003313

GoGoPowerRangers4791 wrote: Damn betcha. I still can't believe it. The guy looks like he'll live a long life. I mean he did, at 95, but I swear he looks like a man who will live to be 100, and he'd still have that smile of his, and that "Excelsior!" phrase. Who could forget that? Dude was one of my real-life idols, honest to God, and I deeply regret never meeting him.

I know how you feel. I was nearly in shock when Carl Barks died back in 2000, despite the fact that he was 99-years-old and his death was not unexpected. He had created so many of my favorite characters, and I loved the philosophy behind his comic book stories. A year before he died, he wrote a poem about his characters and stories, the "Ode to the Disney Ducks". I feel it fits several other characters and storytellers, including the Marvel ones:

"Ode to the Disney Ducks They ride tall ships to the far away, and see the long ago. They walk where fabled people trod, and Yetis trod the snow.

They meet the folks who live on stars, and find them much like us, With food and love and happiness the things they most discuss.

The world is full of clans and cults abuzz as angry bees, And Junior Woodchucks snapping jeers at Littlest Chickadees.

The ducks show us that part of life is to forgive a slight. That black eyes given in revenge keep hatred burning bright.

So when our walks in sun or shade pass graveyards filled by wars, It's nice to stop and read of ducks whose battles leave no scars.

To read of ducks who parody our vain attempts at glory, They don't exist, but somehow leave us glad we bought their story."