At the time of The Strange Shipwrecks, Scrooge implies that both Hortense and Quackmore are dead, and Della is at least presumed to be dead. (And no - in context "nearest" doesn't mean spatial proximity. Scrooge is clearly referring to Donald's genealogical relation towards him.)
At the time of The Strange Shipwrecks, Scrooge implies that both Hortense and Quackmore are dead, and Della is at least presumed to be dead. (And no - in context "nearest" doesn't mean spatial proximity. Scrooge is clearly referring to Donald's genealogical relation towards him.)
Just wondering: aren't HDL as closely related to Donald as Scrooge is?
At the time of The Strange Shipwrecks, Scrooge implies that both Hortense and Quackmore are dead, and Della is at least presumed to be dead. (And no - in context "nearest" doesn't mean spatial proximity. Scrooge is clearly referring to Donald's genealogical relation towards him.)
Just wondering: aren't HDL as closely related to Donald as Scrooge is?
True! I guess Scrooge should have said "I'm one of your nearest relatives" instead.
Eider Duck appears to have died sometime before The Golden River, as Donald says that Scrooge is his only uncle.
Barks probably just forgot that Eider even existed, he was only mentioned in a single panel from a single story. I'm not sure if he'd have said this if Eider was a regular character, since he wouldn't forget about him.
Let's see...apart from the regular cast (Donald, HDL, Scrooge, Grandma, Gladstone, Gus, Fethry, etc...)
Eider Duck and Lulubelle Loon semm to live far away so their absence in the family reunions is not really a problem, so they could still be alive in present day
Fanny is most likely alive too, and so is her husband Luke Goose. Perhaps they celebrate holidays with Casey and Gretchen and that's why they are never seen in Grandma's farm? it's an easy solution
I believe Rosa stated that Daphne and Goostave are still alive? I don't really remember, so i'm not sure about them
Dugan's mother, whoever she is (maybe Cousin Dora?) is probably alive too, since Dugan doesn't seems to live with his uncle.
I think there is a chance that Scrooge's old uncle Jake McDuck may still be alive. He would be 121 years old by the time A Christmas on Shacktown takes place if we follow Rosa's date, but the longest living recorded human lived up to 122 years old, so that's not impossible
Also, Donald is not the smartest duck around but i don't think he would try to impersonate someone who had already died at that point, something that both he and Scrooge would (probably) know
One could argue that Donald was pretending to be Jake's GHOST, but judging from the way he presents himself to Scrooge, i don't think that was his intention
Post by Daniel Maline on Sept 23, 2021 5:50:05 GMT
In the Barks' canon, Gladstone's parents Daphne and Goostave have died for overeating at Picnic. I don’t know if this was later retconned or otherwise changed. And at least, Don Rosa left out of his own canon that Matilda later adopted Gladstone as the Barks had planned. And so afterwards, Barks’ idea sounds weird and strange today. Perhaps in this new universe they died only after Gladstone had moved out.
In the Barks' canon, Gladstone's parents Daphne and Goostave have died for overeating at Picnic. I don’t know if this was later retconned or otherwise changed. And at least, Don Rosa left out of his own canon that Matilda later adopted Gladstone as the Barks had planned. And so afterwards, Barks’ idea sounds weird and strange today. Perhaps in this new universe they died only after Gladstone had moved out.
Barks used the picnic idea in his family tree from the 1950s. However, by the 1990s, he had simplified things to the version we're familiar with today. The following is an excerpt from The Don Rosa Library volume 5, page 174:
Note that the text incorrectly states that Gladstone was adopted by Hortense, when it in fact was Matilda, Scrooge's other sister, that was Gladstone's adoptive parent in this version.
I'm just glad that the Duck/McDuck/Coot/Gander/Goose family members who really shouldn't be dead are finally being used in "modern day" stories (assuming that's what this is, but Gus looks like an adult, so it's probably not a flashback story).
EDIT: Just translated it ... is this supposed to be a scene from before Gus goes to work on Grandma's farm?
Yep, it's called "Hoe Gijs bij Oma Duck kwam" ("How Gus ended up at Grandma Duck's"). But from the way Gus looks, I'm assuming it's supposed to take place very shortly before the "present-day". Plus, INDUCKS mentions Fanny and Luke also appear in the opening story of the issue, which doesn't seem to be a flashback.
That story sets in the present days, at Gus' birthday. The whole Duck family is reunited at Grandma's and she shows Gus' photo-album. He then starts commenting the pictures, narrating his whole life since the egg hatching. Apparently, the stork left his egg at Goose house (I mean that's good for a Disney comics explanation, we already had the same gimmick told with Donald and Biquinho)*. There is also a clever reference to Taliaferro strips/Barks' cartoon about Gus' arriving at Donald's. Oh, and by the way their name appear to be "Archibald (Gans)" and "Annie Prul", which (I checked) are the Dutch names for Luke and Fanny.
I am sorry about the poor quality of these pictures (I took them with the phone), but I am super-happy I finally managed to buy a copy of this special issue!
* Anyway, Gus acknowledges the egg-thing being told him by his mother, so she might as well have made it up as a child-story to cover how ducks (or geese) are actually conceived.
Edit: I just filed a INDUCKS report to correct the characters entries for the story, so that a "(flashback)" note will be hopefully added.