Gemstone/Gladstone [was: The return of Disney Ducks comicsin the US]

[Olaf Solstrand]

Sigvald:
> 2) I can't see any reason what so ever, why Fergus and
> Downy McDuck would split a pair of twins at birth.
> Even though it would be possible to do
> interesting stories based upon yoor idea.
>

Here's a reason: To make a good story. Besides, they were poor. Perhaps even
the sheriff came and had them taken away for some reason (him being a
Whiskerwille could be one), and they managed to hide away Scrooge?

I agree - there is apparantly no reason what so ever that Fergus and Downy
would split a pair of twins at birth. But there's no reason that Huey, Dewey
and Louie must live apart from their parents either. There's no reason that
Scrooge and his brother Rumpus (for you Egmont fans) wasn't made familiar
with their true relationship before recently. There's no reason that parents
so seldom appear in Disney Comics. Sometimes things happen, sometimes they
don't. There's often no reason for that.

Look at the world we live in - 18,000 children die daily because of chronic
hunger. Vital medicines can be extinguished as we speak when the trees in
the rainforest are chopped down so that people can make hamburgers. Your
position in the society is among other things based on your gender, your
nationality, your skin colour, your sexual orientation and your religion.
There's no reason for that either - and still most people accept it.

(no, this is not an attempt to troll down the list. Just using real-life
examples that not everything is perfect. If you think this was trolling, let
me know, and I will try never doing it again.)

> 3) AFAIK the paradigma of today is that $crooge and
> the other Ducks in Duckburgs are ordinary people
> drawn like Ducks

...that is as far as I know correct...

> - and that they thus are born like human beings, not
> hatched from eggs just like other birds.
>

...but THAT has never been a fact. We've seen several stories saying that
Donald came from an egg (including stories by Disney Comics veteran Marco
Rota and "new" talented writers like Gorm Transgaard (I know that 13 years
shouldn't be counted as new, but compared to Rota he is!)), and not a single
story stating that he didn't (unless I've overlooked something here). Yes, I
agree it sounds more reasonable that "ducks" are mammals in this case, but
that's not the version comics have presented for us.


> The problem is that Egmont would probably not accept
> this idea - even though they do accept obscure
> characters like thise Gideon - because they dosen't
> accept any marriage between Matilda McDuck and
> Ludwig von Drake.

But I guess Timo / Rich in this case was talking about Gemstone comics, as
it in Egmont would have disappeared in the translation anyway?


Best,
Olaf the Blue
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