I have a working theory that Donald Duck comics never got popular in the US because of the ever-present scathing critique of capitalism
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They're not!? Colour me surprised!
Super popular in Sweden, at least when I grew up.
Donald got comics in Sweden that characterized him completely differently than how he's shown in the US. I think he's a much better character there.
Donald was always a more appealing character to me than Mickey Mouse because he's so relateable. He has trouble with love and with money and he's impulsive and impatient.
Mickey, on the other hand, is such a nothing-character. He's basically just a brand mascot at this point, with no recognizeable character traits.
And while there are iterations of Mickey that actually give him a personality, it's much less consistent than Donald.
And I don't understand why anyone likes Minnie either. She has exactly one more character trait than Mickey, and it's "girl". Which is just a perfect little example of patriarchy's normalisation of manhood and why the 1900s sucked at writing female characters
Yeah they probably only created Minnie just to have a female character, without thinking about trivial stuff like a personality. Same for Smurfette
Oh, Smurfette is actually interesting. Smurfs are a single-gender species in nature, but Smurfette was created by an evil wizard to inflitrate the smurfs and help the wizard capture them. So the fact that her only personality trait is "girl" is actually diagetically justified and it can lead into some interesting directions. That said, after breaking free from her programming she has the personality traits of guilt for her past actions and appreciating a new family. So there's actually a bare minimum of depth there and tons of room to grow the story and the character in interesting directions, though unfortunately that promise wasn't really explored because... it's the fucking smurfs
I recall them being popular in Germany, too, but yeah, they never took off like that here in the US.
Disney had (has?) a very strong cultural position in Sweden.
It's a Christmas tradition to watch a TV broadcast of a Disney cartoon medley that started 1960 and is still going strong, the majority of Swedes watch it every year.
Before the dedicated cartoon channels made their debut in the latter half of the 90's, the only time you could watch cartoons where on Friday night, and it was all Disney. It was called Disneydags, or Time for Disney translated.
I can't think of anyone I grew up with in America in the 80s who read Disney comics at all.
Sweden in the 90's and 00's kids would collect the Disney pocket books like they where shonen manga.
The spines would make a continuous picture and having no gaps where a mark of pride.
Spot on! I looked upon my collection with pride when I visited my parents last time. Even have most of the early ones where only half of the spreads were printed in color
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In Italy, for some reason, Mickey Mouse comics (including a lot of Donald Duck stories) are SUPER popular, Donald's depicted as always in debt, losing any job he can get and going on extreme life-threatening adventures with Scrooge just to get a cent off his uncle's debt list, but nobody uses this to actually think that this might be a real world problem and brushes it off as an exaggeration. Are Italians (including me) blind?
The Duck Tales show where he's the good guy did really well tho
That's because he was shown to care about a few people he was related to without needing to give up his vast amount of wealth.
This despite him being named after Ebeneezer Scrooge for a reason. I guess he was post-ghost visit Scrooge.
Funny thing is, I feel like the new Ducktales series is the closest TV representation of the comics-versions of the characters. They change some things (most crucially they give Huey, Dewey and Louie individual personality traits), but overall it really feels like watching the European comic books come to life. Scrooge is still too much of a good guy, where in the comics he's often a kind of villain.
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$310,000,000,000,000,000. Quadrillion is a lot.
Now adjust for inflation. The comic was published in 1989. $1 then is $2.48 today. That's a cumulative price increase of 148.22%, or an average price increase of 2.71% per year for 34 years. It is 4:30am, I am on a shuttle bus, and I am not showing any signs of going to sleep anytime soon.
So that motherfucker has almost a quintillion dollars.
What the fuck did he do, conquer Ceres?
The total of all world assets is somewhere in the realm of $500 trillion. So, McDuck owns around 2,000 times all of Earth's assets combined.
Of course, he also lives in a world with anthropomorphic animals, so it's safe to assume it's not our world.
The ducks don't talk to you?
Even when they do, they're not six feet tall and wearing clothes!
He rounded down the number for some reason. This is how much money Scrooge McDuck has, $315,576,000,000,000,000. That is with leap years included.
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That man is single handedly funding the Disney cartoons universe
They did the math.
And today specifically, they did the monster math.
It was a graveyard smath!
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The government is gonna feel bad for him and bail him out
Oh no, how will he be able to swim in his coin vault if that happens?
Well, he has a position to uphold; what about future generations growing up with a broke Scrooge.
When Russ Hanneman dropped down to two commas.
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