The Once and Future Scrooge?

[F. A. Elliott]

Did Carl Barks, or anyone for that matter, ever do a
story where we see Scrooge in the future. Not
necessarly, dealing with time travel to the far flung
future. But a not so distant future, where he sees or
witnesses what happens to Donald, his nephews, the
money bin, and other matters of his affairs in
Duckburg.

Growing up watching the Disney cartoon "DuckTales," I
recall an episode where the newphews were then adults
and had taken over operations of Scrooge McDuck
Enterprises. I can't recall what became of Donald, but
unfortunately the boys had become hardened through the
years because of something Uncle Scrooge had told them
at the beginning of the show. Oh, well, it was solved
in 30 minutes.

Anyway, I realize the cartoon Uncle Scrooge was a
different universe from the Carl Barks version. I was
just wondering if any astute reader out there recalls
a specific issue where we see a "possible" future
version of Scrooge. 

For that matter, awhile back there was some misunder- 
standing over (I think) an opinion Don Rosa has about
Scrooge dying in 1967. Well, I'm pretty sure he's
means metaphorically because that's the year Carl
Barks retired from writing and drawing comics.

Still, I'm the kind of person that thinks every great
fictional story needs to have a beginning, middle, and
ending. I also think Don Rosa is a stickler for
continuity, at least in the time frame or universe
that
Carl Barks laid down. So, I'm going to ask him or any
of you a question that's probably been asked before. 

Is there a story to be told (imaginary or as you truly
see it) where we see the final days of Scrooge McDuck?
If yes, then how do you see it panning out?

Me? Well since I compare Uncle Scrooge a lot with
Indina Jones, my ending might be a lot like "The Last
Crusade." At the end Scrooge and the gang would have
to ride off into the sunset. But, that isn't a final
story!

I'd probably use the technique David Lean used in
"Lawerence of Arabia," where Lawerence dies at the
beginning in a motorcycle accident (sort of off
camera); then his past is retold by accquaintances,
while the viewer is segued back into the actual past
at a critical time (in Lawerence's case - Arabia in
1916-1918); finally ending with Lawerence's death
through foreshadowing, with that great shot of him
driving away (I think) into the sunset, as a man on a
motorcycle zooms by. Hmm, actually, very similiar to
the method used in Citizen Kane.

Perhaps we'll never see the story. Or, perhaps we
will! Don Rosa's already handled the death of
Scrooge's parents with finite tact. Why not Scrooge
himself? At least in an imaginary story? Hmm, time
will tell...time will tell... No matter what, I say we
have to have that "sunset!" Another Rainbow - meets -
The Final Sunset. God bless.

F.A. Elliott.

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The 'one' who has a finger on 'it'... scratches against the mahogany lining of a coffin crying, "I am Jonah! I am Jonah! Spit me back out so I may see and feel the light of day again." And, the levithan does not heed for it knows every great epic must come to an 'end.'
A tasty morsel known as... "understanding."  (F.A. Elliott)

      




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