favorite homages

[Matilda]

What are your favorite homages to other "properties" (movies, TV shows, music, whatever) in Disney comics stories? I'm excluding here the "parodies" where a version of the original story/novel is retold with the characters "played" by the Ducks/Mice. Here, for inspiration, is my short list:

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (I saw the longer, serialized version shown on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color)--the Shaws' The Hanged Man (no one on INDUCKS seems to have realized that it's an homage to the Scarecrow)

Brigadoon--Gail Renard's Brig-a-Dog

Star Trek--Korhonen's Beam Me Up, Mr. Fargone (definitely an homage, not a parody--no particular Star Trek characters/aliens are portrayed, but it's inspired by Star Trek and its fandom)

Gilbert & Sullivan operettas--Jonker & Gerstein's HMS Pinchbug and Gerstein's Ten-Penny Opera

Scarecrow was perhaps the most memorable TV movie I saw in my childhood; Brigadoon was my favorite movie in my adolescence; like Korhonen (and Korhonen's Donald--see Globetrotters) I've been a Star Trek fan since early on; and Gilbert & Sullivan records were the background music at most family dinners thanks to my dad. It's fun when the things you love overlap like this, because it means that the creators of the Disney comics love some of the same things you do!

Oh, I also have loved the Peter Wimsey mysteries since adolescence, and there's a story that is not so much an homage as it is (ahem) "inspired by" the original: A Book of Value takes its plot directly from Sayers' Wimsey short story "The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head." Believe me, it's too close to be a coincidence.

Which homages are your favorites? Do you like the Harry Potter homage/mash-up in Temping Trouble? Or the Tolkien homage? Or one of the many Sherlock Holmes-inspired characters? (There's one story where it's the "real" Sherlock Holmes (though not so named, of course), real in this universe, who is called forward in time to the Ducks' present to help them solve a mystery.)

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Mar 22, 2019 19:10:45 GMT Matilda said:

Or the Tolkien homage?

You say that as though there's only one, but there's quite a few, actually. 

[Matilda]

Mar 22, 2019 19:25:31 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Mar 22, 2019 19:10:45 GMT Matilda said:

Or the Tolkien homage?

You say that as though there's only one, but there's quite a few, actually. 

Yeah, I sorta thought that, but I wasn't sure, so left it vague. I guess I've seen two--if Sword of Ice is one, and then there was one in the pocket-sized Donald Duck Adventures, IIRC.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Mar 23, 2019 2:37:55 GMT Matilda said:

Mar 22, 2019 19:25:31 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

You say that as though there's only one, but there's quite a few, actually. 

Yeah, I sorta thought that, but I wasn't sure, so left it vague. I guess I've seen two--if Sword of Ice is one, and then there was one in the pocket-sized Donald Duck Adventures, IIRC.

Huh, didn't even consider Sword of Ice. Is it really that Tolkienny? 

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Mar 22, 2019 19:10:45 GMT Matilda said:

Do you like the Harry Potter homage/mash-up in Temping Trouble?

Ohhh, and drawn by Carlos Mota to boot! This is another one of those stories I wish we could get in English (and sadly now probably never will). What's its premise? Does it suggest that Magica attended Hogwarts or some such?

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Mar 23, 2019 14:30:34 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

Mar 22, 2019 19:10:45 GMT Matilda said:

Do you like the Harry Potter homage/mash-up in Temping Trouble?

Ohhh, and drawn by Carlos Mota to boot! This is another one of those stories I wish we could get in English (and sadly now probably never will). What's its premise? Does it suggest that Magica attended Hogwarts or some such?

I scanlated it (that's how Matilda read it), so if you want to read it I can PM it to you. No, it does not suggest Magica attended Hogwarts; it's one of these stories that clearly draw the witch/sorceress divide, and ‘Hogwarts’ (not called that, of course) is a wizard-exclusive school. Magica got a job there by pretending she was a real witch, and the bulk of the story is her trying to maintain the illusion. 

[xanderares]

Mar 23, 2019 10:34:57 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Mar 23, 2019 2:37:55 GMT Matilda said:

Yeah, I sorta thought that, but I wasn't sure, so left it vague. I guess I've seen two--if Sword of Ice is one, and then there was one in the pocket-sized Donald Duck Adventures, IIRC.

Huh, didn't even consider Sword of Ice. Is it really that Tolkienny? 

Only partially, the work is inspired by "The Sword in the Stone" by TH White, "The Lord of the Rings" by JRR Tolkien, the "Shannara" saga by Terry Brooks, the legend of Skrýmir, "Cave of the Ancients" by T. Lobsang Rampa and Star Wars the original trilogy.

[Matilda]

That's interesting, xanderares, I had no idea how many sources Sword of Ice drew on! No wonder I only get some of the references. I've read White and Tolkien and seen the original Star Wars trilogy, but haven't encountered the other stuff you list.

But back to my question, everybody: are there homage stories in Disney comics that you enjoy?

[xanderares]

Zio Paperone e le criminose imprese dei Gufo-Robot (I TL 1249-AP) inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+1249-AP homage to UFO Robo Gurendaiza
The series C'era una volta nel West... inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Once+West homage to the western-spaghetti

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Surprised no one's mentioned this Star Wars homage. Although to be fair, it isn't particularly memorable. 

[Spectrus]

Mar 29, 2019 17:04:22 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

Surprised no one's mentioned this Star Wars homage. Although to be fair, it isn't particularly memorable. 

I'd say the same about the Mota story, can't say I got a lot out of that.

The best Star Wars influenced story is obviously Pezzin's "Lords of the Galaxy" series, but I suppose that has to be excluded as part 2 basically retells a shortened version of the first Star Wars film.

[Matilda]

Apr 4, 2019 16:17:39 GMT Spectrus said:

Mar 29, 2019 17:04:22 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

Surprised no one's mentioned this Star Wars homage. Although to be fair, it isn't particularly memorable. 

I'd say the same about the Mota story, can't say I got a lot out of that.

The best Star Wars influenced story is obviously Pezzin's "Lords of the Galaxy" series, but I suppose that has to be excluded as part 2 basically retells a shortened version of the first Star Wars film.

True, it looks like Pezzin's Contatto con la terra counts as a parody rather than an homage. Still, it's interesting to hear about the story, which I didn't know about. You say "obviously," but how would we poor Americans know about it? You can't even find it by putting "star wars" in the INDUCKS keywords search, because while on the story's page it says it's a Star Wars parody, "Star Wars" is in Italian. INDUCKS rating of Contatto is 392!

[Spectrus]

I know, it's a bit of a reflex! The series is pretty popular here in Europe, even if the "Galaxy" six-part LTB spin-off strangely omitted it.

The curious fact is that only part 2 (La guarnigione segreta) has any real connections to Star Wars. So basically the series does its own thing in part 1 and then morphs into (Disney-fied) SW territory, only to go somewhere else again.

If I were to put together some "Disney Masters" volumes, this would be one of my first choices. Especially since I think De Vita is in even better form than in parts of "The Sword of Ice".