<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Chris Barat wrote:<BR><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">As many people may recall (try as they might NOT to!), Huey, Dewey, and Louie had distinctive "looks" and personalities in the TV series<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><EM style="font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">Quack Pack</SPAN></EM>. Earlier, Dewey got a bit of distinctive characterization (or at least a trait that distinguished him from the other kids) in the<EM style="font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "> DuckTales</SPAN></EM><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>episode "Duck in the Iron Mask," wherein he's described at being "the best at coming up with escape plans." Take these as canonical or non- as you wish. </SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Here's my reading: Just as "Donald's Nephews" gives us the first manifestation of Huey, Dewey and Louie, so did legends of some ancient tribal warrior(s) in Briton provide the first manifestation of King Arthur. It took Barks, in the realm of comics, to bring us the full realization of the classic nephews, just as Malory gave us the full flowering of the classic romance of Arthur. Neither is really Canon in the Biblical sense - a set of works accepted as sacred - but they do stand as canon, that is, criteria by which other works may be judged.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I guess the thing to consider is whether something like "DuckTales" or "Quack Pack" gives us anything towards the nephews that's on the same order as what T.H. White's "Once and Future King" - or, to stay in the realm of film, "Excalibur" or Disney's "Sword in the Stone" - gives us towards King Arthur. Personally, I don't think they make the grade.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary</DIV></BODY></HTML>