As for length, I’m not 100 % sure it would have been better with more pages. I love using tons of words, and more often than not the result is that way too many of them aren’t necessary. I actually think I may have first suggested to make this a Lustiges Taschenbuch-style story with thirty pages or something, but my editor thought that a regular two-part story would do. And I agree with him; I think the end result was pretty good. I’m not actually sure that having more complexity and more levels would have made the story better — much of it would probably have been filler. So when the story can be told in seventeen pages, I see no reason to try to tell it in seventy.

I have to admit, I wasn’t BORN Moriarty. I changed my name (to add the Moriarty part) five years ago. And yes, the inspiration for that came from professor Moriarty.

I just read your “Scrooge vs. Scrooge” story in the German DD-SH issue no., and thought it so grand that I googled you at once. So here is what I have to say:
I’m one of those guys who value the plots over the artwork. And this plot is just the best I’ve seen for years if not decades. About as good as Barks and Rosa, it is!
There is only one thing that might have been improved, and that concerns length: I just would have liked a more complicated and detailed storyline, more twists and turns, more levels – in a nutshell, more of an epic tale! This idea deserves a more thorough treatment, but then I know that publishers are not particularly eager to buy lengthy stories, are they?
Well, just keep up the good work!
Regards, K.N.

p.s.: So far I knew Moriarty only as the sinister professor plotting against Sherlock Holmes, never dreamed of this being a real name of real persons. Well, so much the better, I learned something new.