Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Aug 1, 2017 16:27:59 GMT
My new pet project about Disney comics is to try and create a map of what the Solar System looks like in this universe. Here's what i came up with so far (it's a work in progress). You can get it in good resolution on this page.
This scheme if, of course, not to scale. I opted not to include real-life moons that were, to my knowledge, never mentioned in Disney comics; same goes for some of the recently-discovered dwarf planets other than Pluto, such as Ceres and Eris.
As for the fictional planets, here are their origins, from left to right:
This scheme if, of course, not to scale. I opted not to include real-life moons that were, to my knowledge, never mentioned in Disney comics; same goes for some of the recently-discovered dwarf planets other than Pluto, such as Ceres and Eris.
As for the fictional planets, here are their origins, from left to right:
- Earth's second satellite, the Golden Moon, is of course from Barks's The Twenty-Four Carat Moon. Until another story says otherwise, I'm going to assume the Golden Moon crashed into the Main Moon at some point after the story, covering it with a layer of gold, leading up to the events of The Loony Lunar Gold Rush.
- Walhalla is from Barks's Mythtic Mystery, an inhabited planet with an erratic orbit that sometimes comes close to Earth. I think the "undiscovered planet" that briefly obscured the sky in Heirloom Watch, an earlier Barks story, must also have been Walhalla.
- The Astromite Moons, a set of three moons of Neptune, inhabited by peculiar crystal-based intelligent beings, the Astromites, in The Utter Limits by Gary Leach and William Van Horn. One is maid of green quartz, one of silicon, and one of mica.
- Oniro, an inhabited planet hidden behind Pluto, which Gyro and Gus visit in Barks's On the Dream Planet.
- Ronald, the Black Moon, in Van Horn's The Black Moon. It is made of a mysterious oil-like material that multiplies when in contact with Earth-like atmosphere. Ronald is described as the moon of a recently-discovered planet beyond Pluto, which is likely Oniro. (Actually, seeing how fast the Onorians were advancing when Gyro and Gus left them in On the Dream Planet, maybe they and their science are behind the mysterious material.)
- Planet Barks from the French story La Planète Ouah-Ouah, an Earth-like planet where dogs (the animalistic, Pluto-like sort) became sentient and took over from their human masters. (It's not officially called Planet Barks, but "Ouah-Ouah" is the onomatopeia in French for dog barks, and what Disney comic translator would pass up the opportunity for that Barks joke if the story was ever officially translated?)
What do you think of this project? Do you know of any planets or moons I may have forgotten?
