Post by Matilda on Apr 29, 2018 1:53:31 GMT
I'm happy to say we Americans now have our first look at the Geradts "Donald's First..." one-pagers: "Donald's First Get-Rich-Quick Scheme." But one question: in the original, doesn't Scrooge ask if their mother is home? In the American version, Scrooge asks if Grandma is home. If I'm right and the original said "mother," I'm sad that this change was felt to be necessary. Since I believe that Donald and Della lived with their parents at least into adolescence, I was looking forward to having Geradts' one-pagers accord with my worldview. Did someone decide that mentioning Donald's mother would make everyone wonder what happened to her, and that would be problematic? I can't see why that would be any more the case than if we establish that Donald and Della live with Grandma--the question of what happened to their parents would still arise. In fact, it seems more tragic to me to think that the kids were orphaned in early childhood (like HDL?) than to think that their parents raised them and survived into their adolescence or early adulthood.
Since we haven't had any of the Donald Duckling stories published here (as far as I'm aware), we don't need to coordinate with that view of Donald's childhood. And that wouldn't mesh with this Geradts one-pager, anyway, due to the presence of Della, who is nowhere seen or mentioned in the Donald Duckling stories, as I understand. How the sibling-less Donald grows up to have nephews is nowhere explained. (I know someone suggested that Della could have been much older than Donald, and thus not living at Grandma's.)
I don't have time to look through all the Geradts one-pagers on the "surviving Duck family members" thread to look for other references to D&D's parents, and I don't read Dutch well anyway. But I thought I remembered that more than one referenced the (always off-panel) parents. Is that the case?
Since we haven't had any of the Donald Duckling stories published here (as far as I'm aware), we don't need to coordinate with that view of Donald's childhood. And that wouldn't mesh with this Geradts one-pager, anyway, due to the presence of Della, who is nowhere seen or mentioned in the Donald Duckling stories, as I understand. How the sibling-less Donald grows up to have nephews is nowhere explained. (I know someone suggested that Della could have been much older than Donald, and thus not living at Grandma's.)
I don't have time to look through all the Geradts one-pagers on the "surviving Duck family members" thread to look for other references to D&D's parents, and I don't read Dutch well anyway. But I thought I remembered that more than one referenced the (always off-panel) parents. Is that the case?