Shades of Bizzaro World (or, perhaps slightly-kind-of-sort-of-but-not-really more fittingly, the Negaverse?)...

I know, I know, I've heard it time and time again.  Duck comics are unfathomably popular in places like Italy, Finland, and Norway.

...to the point where, apparently, when Don Rosa visits Finland, he's treated like royalty on their equivalent of Good Morning, America.

Okay.  Someone's just plain messing with me, in the unbeknowst-to-me-I've-actually-for-my-whole-life-been-in-a-situation-similar-to-that-of-the-lead-character-in-The Truman Show sense.