Post by RobbK1 on Jul 22, 2017 15:28:04 GMT
Oh, that's interesting! You blip over all the aliens. I'm very fond of Muchkale and the Micro-Ducks. So that fantastic/scifi aspect is part of my Duckiverse. I assume Rosa accepts the Barksian aliens, too, as he created his own aliens.
He didn't cotton to my godson's theory, of course--said it seemed to much like a silly superhero story. I can see that. I still think it's about the only way to have HDL's parents be alive, not horrible parents, and not able to communicate regularly or to show up any time soon to take HDL away from Donald (or at least move in with them). I don't see how even Tralla La can meet all these requirements. Which is probably why Rosa never wrote a story about that scenario, in spite of the countless fan requests he got to write about HDL's parents!
I know Barks had a more Taliaferro-compatible idea in his head about the boys' background, but I don't feel bound by that, either.
Another DuckTales twist, of course, is that the kids are not living with Donald, they're living with Scrooge. Even though Donald has now moved his houseboat into Scrooge's pond. So did Della leave town knowing the kids would live with Scrooge?
But coming back to the idea of HD&L's father: I've been thinking about this and really, would Disney still be averse, in 2017, to portraying Della as a single mother by default (i.e., no father shown or mentioned)? After all, kids today probably have friends who are growing up in single-mother homes, and it doesn't carry the stigma that it did 50 years ago. Gerardts kind of did this already, when he had Della show up to drop the kids off with Donald before flying into space, with no mention of a father (and Donald doesn't even ask). The political atmosphere, in the US at least, has gradually gone from socially conservative to liberal-progressive, especially in the "creative community" (Hollywood, publishing houses), and Marvel and DC have introduced LGBT characters. Even Archie Comics, once seen as a bastion of "wholesome conservative values" and who once put out a line of Christian comics starring their flagship characters (imagine that happening today!), recently introduced a gay character with much fanfare and won widespread acclaim for it. And J K Rowling openly talks about Dumbledore being gay (although she never put LGBT elements into her books, even in "The Cursed Child" where she seemed to hint towards it until the very end). All this, in literature aimed at children and teens. Since it's all about inclusivism, and the promotion of non-traditional families, why not single mother Della to make kids of single mothers feel represented? Actually, I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been announcement of an LGBT character in the new DuckTales yet, a true sign of "modernization". It certainly isn't a risk to have a gay character these days, so it seems like low-hanging fruit for Disney to do that.