Post by The KKM on Aug 11, 2023 13:21:24 GMT
Don't have much a point to this, more vagueness. But recently I discovered that Glory-Bee, Goofy's girlfriend from a few newspaper strips and stories from the 60s, a character who barely left a footprint at all, was super recently reused in Young Donald Duck. And looking at this, it reminded me of things like the recent Della Duck stories in Egmont materials, or the callbacks to Rosa and Barks material in stuff like the Phantomius stories, which themselves are a throwback reference to a forgotten element of the Duck Avenger mythos since the 70s; or stuff like the Sleuth being a character in that Radice-Turconi Treasure Island story.
I see some of you guys post about these new Young Scrooge McDuck stories set amidst Life and Times moments, etc.
Basically, it really feels over the past 10, 15 years, the inmates have gotten to take over the asylum to some point; people who grew up on one-off obscure stuff of decades ago are getting to call the shots to revive it. I find it interesting as a contrast with how the comics also feel they're being aimed younger in a lot of places. It feels it's contradictory, that the target audience is younger but they're getting more references for older readers; but of course, often that might be exactly the point, using the "lore callbacks" as a means to keep older readers interested while the tone slips away from them, or even doing it specifically for kids- I know from plenty of recent media that modern kids love the feeling of being "let in" in stuff they didn't get to experience, so callbacks to older stories will be appealing because it lets them feel they also know about old stories now, even if those old stories or characters were actually fairly irrelevant and forgotten for a reason that doesn't come across when reading about them in a wiki article.
Anyway yeah, was pondering on this stuff, and was curious what you guys would ponder on it, and if you've got more examples of this sort of phenomenon lately.
I see some of you guys post about these new Young Scrooge McDuck stories set amidst Life and Times moments, etc.
Basically, it really feels over the past 10, 15 years, the inmates have gotten to take over the asylum to some point; people who grew up on one-off obscure stuff of decades ago are getting to call the shots to revive it. I find it interesting as a contrast with how the comics also feel they're being aimed younger in a lot of places. It feels it's contradictory, that the target audience is younger but they're getting more references for older readers; but of course, often that might be exactly the point, using the "lore callbacks" as a means to keep older readers interested while the tone slips away from them, or even doing it specifically for kids- I know from plenty of recent media that modern kids love the feeling of being "let in" in stuff they didn't get to experience, so callbacks to older stories will be appealing because it lets them feel they also know about old stories now, even if those old stories or characters were actually fairly irrelevant and forgotten for a reason that doesn't come across when reading about them in a wiki article.
Anyway yeah, was pondering on this stuff, and was curious what you guys would ponder on it, and if you've got more examples of this sort of phenomenon lately.
