What are some Disney Comics F.A.Q.?

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Hello! I thought I might drop in to see if you can help with a conundrum.

We're trying to build a F.A.Q. page for the $crooge McDuck Wiki. Two of the three main sections ("F.A.Q./Canon", about what is covered on the Wiki, and "F.A.Q./Wiki", about $MW itself, whether it's official, page-writign etiquette and so on), but that leaves arguably the most importnat: "F.A.Q./General", which should answer Disney comic neophytes' broadest questions about what exactly is that strange animal that they call Disney comics.

So… what do you think would be questions that beginners would need answered to get a grip of the Disney comics world? The only one I could think of offhand is the "richest duck" vs. "richest person" thing. Possibly "How much money does Scrooge McDuck own", as well. 

[Baar Baar Jinx]

How did you answer the "richest duck vs richest person" question? The link to the FAQ is currently broken. Along those lines, a section on degrees of anthropomorphism is Disney comics (with an explanation of the MEAS or a similar scale) may help ward off the inevitable, "If Goofy is a dog, what is Pluto?", and "Isn't Donald encouraging cannibalism when he feeds HD&L turkey on Thanksgiving?" questions.

Also maybe a section on various publishers of Disney comics in the US throughout history, which can be very confusing for beginners.  And of course, "Where are HD&L's parents?"

[RobbK1]

Jul 15, 2018 16:51:33 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

How did you answer the "richest duck vs richest person" question? The link to the FAQ is currently broken. Along those lines, a section on degrees of anthropomorphism is Disney comics (with an explanation of the MEAS or a similar scale) may help ward off the inevitable, "If Pluto is a dog, what is Goofy?", and "Isn't Donald encouraging cannibalism when he feeds HD&L turkey on Thanksgiving?" questions.

Also maybe a section on various publishers of Disney comics in the US throughout history, which can be very confusing for beginners.  And of course, "Where are HD&L's parents?"

Why limit this to history of publishers in USA?  This is an international forum.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jul 15, 2018 17:02:19 GMT RobbK1 said:

Jul 15, 2018 16:51:33 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

How did you answer the "richest duck vs richest person" question? The link to the FAQ is currently broken. Along those lines, a section on degrees of anthropomorphism is Disney comics (with an explanation of the MEAS or a similar scale) may help ward off the inevitable, "If Pluto is a dog, what is Goofy?", and "Isn't Donald encouraging cannibalism when he feeds HD&L turkey on Thanksgiving?" questions.

Also maybe a section on various publishers of Disney comics in the US throughout history, which can be very confusing for beginners.  And of course, "Where are HD&L's parents?"

Why limit this to history of publishers in USA?  This is an international forum.

But the $crooge McDuck Wiki is an English-language website. 

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jul 15, 2018 16:51:33 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

How did you answer the "richest duck vs richest person" question? The link to the FAQ is currently broken.

No clue why it's broken. Maybe go to the main FAQ page and click on FAQ/General. 

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Jul 15, 2018 17:23:14 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Jul 15, 2018 16:51:33 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

How did you answer the "richest duck vs richest person" question? The link to the FAQ is currently broken.

No clue why it's broken. Maybe go to the main FAQ page and click on FAQ/General. 

Yes, I can get to it that way. It looks like it's the direct link in your opening post on this thread that's broken.

[The KKM]

Jul 15, 2018 17:22:17 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Jul 15, 2018 17:02:19 GMT RobbK1 said:

Why limit this to history of publishers in USA?  This is an international forum.

But the $crooge McDuck Wiki is an English-language website. 

English being the lingua franca of the western world, that still means odds are most of the audience will be international.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jul 16, 2018 13:09:45 GMT Matilda said:

Why do HDL live with Donald? (Or with Scrooge on DuckTales)? Are their parents dead?

Good try, but that's already been suggested (and implemented). 

[Matilda]

Jul 15, 2018 16:51:33 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

Along those lines, a section on degrees of anthropomorphism is Disney comics (with an explanation of the MEAS or a similar scale) may help ward off the inevitable, "If Goofy is a dog, what is Pluto?", and "Isn't Donald encouraging cannibalism when he feeds HD&L turkey on Thanksgiving?" questions.

And more fundamentally, the "What is Goofy?" question. See "Stand by Me".

[Matilda]

Jul 16, 2018 13:11:25 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Jul 16, 2018 13:09:45 GMT Matilda said:

Why do HDL live with Donald? (Or with Scrooge on DuckTales)? Are their parents dead?

Good try, but that's already been suggested (and implemented). 

Ha, I just noted that, and deleted my comment--but you had already replied to it!

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jul 16, 2018 13:12:03 GMT Matilda said:

See "Stand by Me".

…"Stand by Me"? What's "Stand by Me"?

[Matilda]

Jul 16, 2018 13:21:31 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Jul 16, 2018 13:12:03 GMT Matilda said:

See "Stand by Me".

…"Stand by Me"? What's "Stand by Me"?

The movie. I haven't read the Stephen King novel, so I don't know if the scene is there, too, but in the movie, the adolescent boys discuss this question. "Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy?"

[Orora]

Donald is not encouraging cannibalism by feeding/eating turkey or chicken because they are not ducks.
Humans commonly eat mammals, after all.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Jul 19, 2018 9:44:47 GMT Orora said:

Donald is not encouraging cannibalism by feeding/eating turkey or chicken because they are not ducks.
Humans commonly eat mammals, after all.

He could even eat a (non-anthropomorphic) duck, because he's not a "duck" himself, he is either, based on the two popular prevailing schools of thought on this forum: (a) a human who looks like a duck due to a "lens" through which we view these comics, or (b) a sapient species descended from ducks in  the alternate "world" that the Duck universe exists in.

Regardless, I don't think the cannibalism question is one that anyone on this forum would ask; it was merely suggested as an FAQ for a wiki that may be frequented by neophytes to Disney comics fandom. 

[drleevezan]

Perhaps a good one to have would be "Where does Gladstone's luck come from?". And, relatedly, "What are the limits of Gladstone's luck?".