Can someone give me more information about this series? For example, if the main characters are shown as babies, who is their legal guardian? And do characters from the duck cast and the mouse cast live in different cities as they normally do in French stories, or do they live in the same city?
Can someone give me more information about this series? For example, if the main characters are shown as babies, who is their legal guardian? And do characters from the duck cast and the mouse cast live in different cities as they normally do in French stories, or do they live in the same city?
The series is from a "baby perspective", so by convention the adults are never shown, save their feet. (This rule might have been broken occasionally, but that was the custom.) Most of the stories seemed to take place in some sort of daycare center where all the babies/toddlers were playing together.
What's the title of the story because it's a flashback panel?
As I said before, I do not know the story. I assumed you did, since you were the one who introduced it to this thread, but it appears I was mistaken. However, it does look like Marco Rota's art style to me, but I'm no expert on Rota, so I have no idea what story this could be.
I think I've found another story which says things about Donald's youth which hasn't been mentioned yet -- On Guard (INDUCKS), drawn by Tony Strobl. The story reveals to us that Donald has always dreamed about becoming a guard at Uncle Scrooge's Money Bin and revolves around him applying for that job. Notably, Huey, Dewey, and Louie do not appear in the story, which makes me wonder if the story is supposed to take place shortly after Donald graduated high school or college. Here's the first page of the story in three different images:
If one sees this story as being in the same canon as Rosa's stories, then I would say that Donald wanting to get a job at the Money Bin as a child sort of makes sense since his parents, if I understand correctly, worked in the Bin during his childhood (at least, I assume they do... they certainly worked there for a time before "Scrooge's blackest day"). The only thing that doesn't mesh is what, to me, seems to be the implication that Donald applied to be a guard as soon as he was old enough to. That does not make sense in Rosa continuity, which has Donald being roughly 27 when he becomes close to Scrooge. Perhaps he decided to apply for the job after finding some childhood writings about how much he wanted to be a guard in Grandma's attic, reminding him of his childhood dream and the fact that he is now on somewhat good terms with Scrooge and might be able to get such a job.
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I think I've found another story which says things about Donald's youth which hasn't been mentioned yet -- On Guard (INDUCKS), drawn by Tony Strobl. The story reveals to us that Donald has always dreamed about becoming a guard at Uncle Scrooge's Money Bin and revolves around him applying for that job. Notably, Huey, Dewey, and Louie do not appear in the story, which makes me wonder if the story is supposed to take place shortly after Donald graduated high school or college. Here's the first page of the story in three different images:
If one sees this story as being in the same canon as Rosa's stories, then I would say that Donald wanting to get a job at the Money Bin as a child sort of makes sense since his parents, if I understand correctly, worked in the Bin during his childhood (at least, I assume they do... they certainly worked there for a time before "Scrooge's blackest day"). The only thing that doesn't mesh is what, to me, seems to be the implication that Donald applied to be a guard as soon as he was old enough to. That does not make sense in Rosa continuity, which has Donald being roughly 27 when he becomes close to Scrooge. Perhaps he decided to apply for the job after finding some childhood writings about how much he wanted to be a guard in Grandma's attic, reminding him of his childhood dream and the fact that he is now on somewhat good terms with Scrooge and might be able to get such a job.
Donald wanting to be a guard as an adult as a child makes sense to me. I get the impression that Donald thinks of himself as a hero, who would be able to defend any place from anyone... even though that doesn't necessarily correspond with reality. And there's also the fact that Barks employed him as a guard at museums and stuff on numerous occasions.
Judging from these panels, it actually seems like this story is intended to take place before HDL arrive, which we don't see too often! A pre-status quo story! But as you say, that doesn't make sense in the timeline. I could buy that the guard job hasn't been available during Scrooge's withdrawal in between 1942 and 1947. Donald would probably put this dream to rest after his family cut ties to Scrooge. But there could be revived interest in it post-Christmas on Bear Mountain. I seem to recall that my head-canon places The Big Bin on Killmotor Hill soon after Bear Mountain, when Scrooge has opened the Bin for business again... (The "New Bin" would only refer to updated and improved security and things like that.)
But then HDL should still be present, so never mind.