The Disney Classics in Regard to the Comics

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Something you may or may not have noticed about me is that I rather like poking closely at the continuity of the giant, amorphous and enthralling corpus that are Disney Comics.

My recent acquisition of IDW's Disney's Christmas Classics, and the flurry of "crossovers" therein, inspired me to add a page about the Walt Disney Classics to the Scrooge McDuck Wiki, where I marked down which movies had been accepted into the comic universe (at least in the loose, 70's, Captain-Hook-and-Madam-Mim-friendly ones), which were sometimes thrown in but not as regularly, which were only indicated to share a world with Mickey and Co. in House of Mouse, and which were, so far as I could tell, completely unrelated to the world of Mickey and Donald. 

The page is here, and I'd love to hear your thoughts!

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Dec 26, 2017 20:33:54 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Something you may or may not have noticed about me is that I rather like poking closely at the continuity of the giant, amorphous and enthralling corpus that are Disney Comics.

My recent acquisition of IDW's Disney's Christmas Classics, and the flurry of "crossovers" therein, inspired me to add a page about the Walt Disney Classics to the Scrooge McDuck Wiki, where I marked down which movies had been accepted into the comic universe (at least in the loose, 70's, Captain-Hook-and-Madam-Mim-friendly ones), which were sometimes thrown in but not as regularly, which were only indicated to share a world with Mickey and Co. in House of Mouse, and which were, so far as I could tell, completely unrelated to the world of Mickey and Donald. 

The page is here, and I'd love to ehar your thoughts!

Impressive job. One comment I would have is that you use the appearance of a character in House of Mouse as proof that said character is canon to the comics (if I understand the page right), but I personally consider the entire animated universe distinct from the comics universe. But then I may be something of an extreme splitter on the "lumper vs. splitter" scale as it pertains to Disney comics.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Dec 27, 2017 15:18:46 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

Impressive job. One comment I would have is that you use the appearance of a character in House of Mouse as proof that said character is canon to the comics (if I understand the page right), but I personally consider the entire animated universe distinct from the comics universe. But then I may be something of an extreme splitter on the "lumper vs. splitter" scale as it pertains to Disney comics.

Indeed; the cartoons (classic, MouseWorks, Disneyland) are all considered "canon" (in a loose sense of the word) on the Wiki.

I did mention House of Mouse in particular in the notes because unlike other media, both cartoons and comics, it's not as much of a "serious" crossover in that it doesn't even begin to explain how the settings of all these movies might fit together. I'm personally willing to acknowledge it but I can see why some would ignore it.