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<DIV>Gary Leach wrote: <BR></DIV>
<DIV>> Chris Barat wrote: <BR>> <BR>> > As many people may recall (try as they might NOT to!), Huey, Dewey, <BR>> > and Louie had distinctive "looks" and personalities in the TV <BR>> > series Quack Pack. Earlier, Dewey got a bit of distinctive <BR>> > characterization (or at least a trait that distinguished him from <BR>> > the other kids) in the DuckTales episode "Duck in the Iron Mask," <BR>> > wherein he's described at being "the best at coming up with escape <BR>> > plans." Take these as canonical or non- as you wish. <BR>> Here's my reading: Just as "Donald's Nephews" gives us the first <BR>> manifestation of Huey, Dewey and Louie, so did legends of some <BR>> ancient tribal warrior(s) in Briton provide the first manifestation <BR>> of King Arthur. It took Barks, in the realm of comics, to bring us <BR>> the full realization of the classic nephews, just as Malory gave us <BR>> the full flowering of the classic romance of Arthur. Neither is <BR>> really Canon in the Biblical sense - a set of works accepted as <BR>> sacred - but they do stand as canon, that is, criteria by which other <BR>> works may be judged.>></DIV>
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<DIV>This sums things up very well, I think.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>> I guess the thing to consider is whether something like "DuckTales" <BR>> or "Quack Pack" gives us anything towards the nephews that's on the <BR>> same order as what T.H. White's "Once and Future King" - or, to stay <BR>> in the realm of film, "Excalibur" or Disney's "Sword in the Stone" - <BR>> gives us towards King Arthur. Personally, I don't think they make the <BR>> grade. <BR></DIV>
<DIV>I'll readily agree on the "Quack Pack" Nephews, but not on the "DuckTales" Nephews. The "DT" HD&L are pretty doggone close to Barks' versions, IMHO.</DIV>
<DIV>For sure, their voices (in English) are now the voices I hear when I read the Nephews' dialogue in the comics, just as I hear Alan Young, June Foray, Hal Smith when I read the dialogue of Scrooge, Glomgold, Gyro, Magica, etc.</DIV>
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