Huey, Dewey and Louie: smarties that deserve recognition!

[Madame Jennifer Inantaz]

Larry Giver wrote:

>I found the answer in Barks' story "Want to Buy an Island"
>WDC&S 235.  This story starts in HDL's kindergarten class, which
>they like.  The class is play-acting the roles of bankers, realtors,
>lawyers, etc.  The classroom has normal kindergarten decor, but
>look what's on the black-board:  a CALCULUS equation!  Truly,  this
>was a very special kindergarten class, where they really learned
>everything they needed in kindergarten.  Thus, they were so bored in
>second grade, etc, that the lessons had nothing new, and so
>they often played hookey.  It wasn't until they joined the Jr Woodchucks
>that they found new and exciting things to learn.

---Dang, gee and whiz, I wish I had gone to *their* kinderclass! >_>;

I was giving some thought to the subject of Huey's, Dewey's and Louie's 
attention to their academic progress; I had just read 'Sons of the Moon' by 
Kori Korhonen (while not fantastic, I really did enjoy reading it, and would 
love to see more stories from him). The boys were discussing that they were 
so involved in the Junior Woodchuck duties (which they blame Louie for 
volunteering them), they had neglected their history report!

>From the (little) stories I've read, the junior savantism of Huey, Dewey and 
Louie exists only in the Rosa/Barks universe. If I'm wrong, then please 
correct me...(I'm pretending savantism is a word)...
But not that many people have actually, in my opinion, put much effort into 
giving the duck triplets personality. Even those who did stories that 
revolved *only* around them!!!

While Rosa doesn't give each of them a unique persona, he also doesn't make 
them a symbiotic unit. But they're triplets, so they're bound to have the 
ambiguity that comes from being someone's fraternal replicate, times three. 
:-) They like a lot of the same things, such as Junior Woodchucks, and 
"hating" girls.

Korhonen's HD&L are different (in a fun way) from Rosa's, even Barks', HD&L. 
He too doesn't treat Huey, Dewey and Louie as three parts to a machine.  I 
like the way they were protrayed in his 'Sons of the Moon' story, even 
though they weren't child prodigies.
They seemed to act alot like the HD&L from the beginning of the DuckTales 
series, really.

I guess I'm making a big hoopla about Kori Korhonen because he's the first 
person, besides Carl Barks and Don Rosa, that seems to care for the three 
duck children. Huey, Dewey and Louie, by a lot of author/artists have been 
overused and under appreciated. Though, in the story "Three Little Cupids" 
by Patrick and Shelly Block, they were treated like the true coniving 
genius' they were. ;-)

I would say Daan Jippes, but most of his story work comes from others. He's 
a great artist, though.

What a would really like to see is someone who does a pretty good story of 
Scooge or Donald, do a pretty good story of HD&L. Geoffrey Blum (the man is 
obsessed with Magica, I swear), maybe?

Does anyone else have something to add to this line of thinking?


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