Post by alquackskey on Aug 18, 2023 13:04:26 GMT
Aug 18, 2023 12:53:29 GMT mkr said:
Regarding I TL 1679-A, I noticed that one of the publications - Super Miti Mondadori #38 - actually features a framing story referring to Sandopaper/
That would be I SMIT 38-1
I've been scouting around trying to find the best version of the story, so I haven't read it yet - but is it possible the relation is introduced here?
I try to be careful enough with my purchases - maybe worth trying to track down this one specifically?
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Some other unrelated things:
Currently we have one Sourdough on the tree, who is indexed as Scrooge's uncle from W BBVS 1-01. He is on the tree as a brother of Downy. This seems all fine. However, there is another Sourdough, who is mentioned as by Donald as his cousin in W DD 30-03, while reading a Duck family album. He is currently not separately on the tree, maybe because the two Sourdoughs were ever merged.
However, if they are considered to be merged, we maybe need to move Sourdough, for example making him a brother of Swashbuckle and Featherbrain, so he can be a Duck, which makes more sense if he is in a Duck Family Album. If he is positioned there he can be seen as a cousin but also as an uncle of Donald and Scrooge. Alternatively we can of course add a second Sourdough to the tree, somewhere at the Duck side of the family.
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There is also Count Duckcyzk of Glomsk on the tree. Which is also a kind of a merge. There namely exists a Count Duckcyzk (from D 2009-100) and a Count Duckczech of Glomsk (from D 2004-280). Both stories are actually quite similar: in both stories Donald does genealogical research and finds some count he is related to. And in both stories the count lives in the same area (either said to be Transsylavania or said to be the Carpathian Mountains). And in both stories the count is not actually present in the castle. However, there are still various differences so that it does not seem like they can be the same duck (one is known to have deceased while the other has disappeared, and it would also not make much sense for Donald to discover that he is related to the same count twice without remembering his previous search). But they could maybe be cousins or so.
Personally, I think that you're right about Sourdough - If we treat Goomboot, Panhandle et al as Ducks, then it stands to reason that Sourdough should be Sourdough Duck, not Sourdough McDuck. Personally, I'd think that it would make the most sense to have cousin Sourdough be treated as separate from uncle Sourdough - given the way he's speaking about other relatives, it doesn't make sense for Donald to refer to Scrooge's uncle as a cousin. In the same vein, it doesn't really make much sense for Scrooge to call uncle Sourdough 'my uncle' if he's not closely related.
As for Duckcyzk, I can confirm - in the index at least - that the character in both of those stories are treated as one and the same.
If they are to be split, would it make sense for them to be brothers or father/son? Would explain the close resemblance and all. I haven't read either story in a while, so the details are a bit foggy to me right now.
Also, while weighing in, does anyone have the actual discussion on Muf Gås from S 64107?
I haven't been able to find it anywhere on this forum. There's no mention of him in most circumstances, which would make sense if he's just Gus, but the fact that Pedersen has both an English and Danish name for him seems odd to me.