#donald duck's superhero alter ego

[ducklooney]

Double Duck and Duck Avenger in one! Happy New 2023 Year!

Uhm... I can see a pattern here... 🤔😄

[ducklooney]

I know it's been a while, but I certainly can't help but once again say happy 90th birthday to the best duck that is Donald Duck. Yes, these are the covers of German Donald Duck comics called Lustig Taschenbuch or Donald Duck Pocket Comics. Certainly these covers were drawn by Italian comic artists (I'm not sure if this was drawn by Andrea Freccero, although I'm very familiar with his style). Starting with Donald Duck's 90th birthday cover, then over the summer where Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck play with Donald's cousin Fethry Duck, and there are two covers of Donald and Fethry as detectives to the Ultraheroes cover led by the Duck Avenger (Donald Duck ), and then there's Red Bat, who is actually Fethry Duck's superhero alter ego.

Yes, on August 2, 1964, Fethry Duck appeared for the first time in the comic "The Health Nut", by writer Dick Kinney (brother of animator and writer Jack Kinney) and by artist Al Hubbard. And exactly 60 years have passed since then. So happy birthday to Donald's best cousin Fethry Duck!

So you also have these comics that are not just Topolino, but there are also Egmont comics, which are a Danish edition though.

Please like and reblog if you are a fan of these comics and these characters. Happy Birthday Donald Duck and Fethry Duck!

[ducktoonsfanart]

Donald Duck, José Carioca (Zé Carioca) and Panchito Pistoles as superheroes as Duck Avenger (Paperinik), Green Bat and El-Gallo-Loco - Donald Duck Week - The Three Caballeros Month

Although I'm already late, unfortunately I had problems with the internet last week and I didn't manage to finish my drawing that I intended. By the way, it started at the beginning of last week and only recently finished. It's definitely time for one of my favorite topics, superheroes. Three Caballeros in action!

Donald Duck is certainly a superhero as Duck Avenger (Paperinik) who appeared in 1969, and his second version in 1996 in PKNA (Paperinik New Adventures) and is mostly represented in Italian comics. However, his partners are also superheroes in their own ways. Jose Ze Carioca has his second alter ego called Green Bat, which is inspired by Batman, otherwise he took inspiration from none other than Morcego Vermelho, translated as Red Bat, which is the superhero alter ego for Fethry Duck, Donald's cousin. Ze Carioca became Morcego Verde, translated as Green Bat. By the way, he first appeared in a comic in 1975 (Zé Carioca magazine #1217) and was mostly represented in Brazilian comics and was often a partner of Red Bat and belongs to the superhero club. He is often clumsy, but he is eager for his adventures and fighting crime. And of course Panchito as a professional wrestler or better as a superhero under the name "El Gallo Loco", otherwise a name obtained from a Mexican food (I'm not kidding). He appeared in the series The Legend of The Three Caballeros in the episodes "Pyramid-Life Crisis" and "Mexico à Go-Go" where he appeared as a professional wrestler, but can certainly be taken as his superhero alter ego.

Therefore, all three are superheroes and go into action in the fight against crime and crime, and there is certainly Uno Ducklair (computer android created by Everett Ducklair and mentor of Duck Avenger). I drew in my own style. And let's be clear, I didn't copy from @fantasticenthusiasttale (sorry), because I drew this even before that and we have completely different ideas, although it resembles quite a lot. I certainly drew in my own ways. I hope you like this drawing and this idea.

Feel free to like and reblog if you like, just don't copy these same ideas of mine without mentioning me, thanks. And happy Mexico Day which is celebrated on September 16th and happy Donald's 90th birthday by the way it was Friday the 13th last Friday so that's what I'm saying. Otherwise dedicated to @mesdelostrescaballeros2024.

[captainzigo]

since I have been making my little pony comics for the past few months, I have basically forgotten what every single one of my duckverse comic prompts means. I had a big list full of one sentence prompts for duckverse comics that I was going to make, and I was reading through it yesterday, because I thought about making one. I was surprised to find out that I have no idea what any of them mean. instead of just deleting the list, I have decided to share with you. For what good it will do you. Think of this as a little shout out to the people who followed me for duckverse content. i havent forgotten about you. it’s also a little peek in my twisted mind. my horrible creation process. a behind the scenes look from hell. the list of prompts is below the break

max college fund

launchpad rescue hero

costco 22¢ per bite

house of mouse

door to darkness

because i’m hispanic?

donald cousins catch and release

fish wife

the greatest skateboard trick in the seven seas

backyardagins movie

evil versions boy band

gladstone gay moms

the poor part of town

private army of freaks vs my boys

you own the town. you are politics - what do you think taxes are for - not gladstone bail - id be doing everyone a favor

kids table is great actually

donald cry gold swim

beautiful gold moon

villains table

these lovebirds

gladstone can’t read

gladstone hyper specific thrift store shirt

louie seeing anyone right now?

managed my uncle’s finances

june dolls episode

may louie webs spy episode

house of mouse christmas hdl want to come

propeller cap start to turn. big wind. its a helicopter landing. thanks babe

double gay batteries

daisy likes donald snoring

if you can understand anything he says then yeah!

sora. quack pack. bald monkey

i respect your pronouns. i dont not respect YOU scrooge

why are you friends with my rival’s girlfriend

we’re sisters now too???

The dancing hacker - do you know how hard it is to lucid dream

are you guys playing dancing hacker?

how did you do that? Those dice were rigged i mean.

you guys were supposed to prepare a musical number every session

Lady in pink but with a knife

girl boss? No girl lady. But not a girl.

sephirof at the door. never seen Donald that serious in my life.

I have a superhero alter ego - like super Grover?

louie x robin the frog

daffy: i’m getting you a job in Hollywood, kid! You gonna make big times. Why? uh… i’m friends with your mom.

Duckburg community college is the only community college that does dance scholarship

duckberg community ducks, and the Duckburg University geese

in helicopter: you ever going to get tired of having our dates like this? no never.

donald take responsibility for our son! panchito what

babe your costume is terrible. why are you still in a sailor hat

tasha austin gay lesbian solidarity

hey webby! *glittery hands*

webby diary

shake for trust? glitter on hand. body slam

why did t you tell me your girlfriend is a pilot? tasha said i shouldn’t tell you because of what happened to you pilot ex. he’s still alive!

pablo: sleeper agents be like time for my next mission

CHRISTMAS GIFTS

WHATS UP T-BOYS?

donald’s boyfriends what does gladstone have against gay people

donald you should wingman for me. i thought you were gay

dugan duck is your secret kid isn’t he

huey ponytail

donald has three boyfriends why can’t i have two

woops i mexed up their super powers - let’s go, t boys! i didn’t make them trans! they were like that before, right?

your brother donald has like five partners. yeah and i’m not my brother donald. you’re right. i should date your brother donald

dewey damn girl your ass phat what are your pronouns. katy nun/ya

tying normie trans girl to a chair turbo pablo

don’t worry. the promise ring is just a tracking device

punch buggy gets steadily more and more violent

dewey’s many licenses

duck twins cobwebs

beaks: help! #911

katy can not entertain in her tiny trailer

uno gaydar donald i finally give you a job and you’re being gay on the clock??

when mom comes in and you have to hide your DS under your pillow

HDL Tulin

HDL chart

[infernothechaosgod]

they just cannot stop missing with these "what if mickey goofy donald minnie and daisy were [X characters from marvel]"

Bc heres the thing...if they accualy wanna make those like lets assume someone in the writing room is having an absolute ball making these (as much as I doubt it) Why not make them have accual alter egos/write them to be oryginal superheroes that if you want connection to marvel so badly can be directly inspired by them ala "the duck avenger"

Bc im gonna be honest they seem to be really randomizing it and its getting on my nerves especialy when you can see that they dont put too much thinking into the roles they assign to them, mickey has not had his magic side shown in quite a while why not make his alter ego be a mage or more detective side thinking a spy [maybe sunny1928 drew some time ago]?

Daisy as a character often doesnt have that much spotlight on herself but often results conflitcs why not maybe give her invisibility powers or make her "the chair guy" smuggling lots of information?

I think overall mouseverse characters as superheroes and supervillians can be intresting but they need to settle down a bit on an idea or think more about the roles they wanna give em bc it really feels randomized and not even in a fun way, bc random can be fun sometimes but this feels not random nor chaotic just unorganized

It could be just me not warming up to one shot ideas too well but I feel like theres alot missing in these comics idk

Again I dont mean it in a very serious way just wanna spark up a conversation if you like the comics good for you id love to hear why my main goal is to talk abt things not uplift or stomp on them

[yourpalmickeymouse]

Hey Mickey! Hope you are having a good morning/afternoon or night!

I have a question, what do you think about… spies? Cause they seem to have some similarities to detectives (unless they’re the same thing I’m not sure-), with them working together in an organisation to take down bad guys or evil corporations.

And do you believe you’ll ever become a spy one day? (Cause you being a spy would be cool!)

Last question, about your friend Donald… Do you think he has a secret double life that you don’t know?… specifically being a superhero?👀

Anyways that’s all I wanna ask! Sorry if they are too personal! It’s okay not answer them if you don’t feel comfortable, see you later Mickey!

-Sunny☀️

Hiya Sunny,

I am havin' a good night. Though also a very busy one. I'm workin' on this really tough case and it's been kinda takin' away time from Tumblr. I hope y'all forgive me for the delayed responses.

But enough 'bout that, you wanna know what I think 'bout spies. Well I think spies are the COOLEST!!! 🤩🤩🤩I remember when I was younger, I would pretend that I was a spy on a super secret mission. I used to find hidin' spots and spy on my neighbors all the time... until I started to get into trouble and learned why that wasn't a good idea.

But I guess I never thought 'bout how similar a detective and a spy is. They really do the same kinda work with the investigatin' and puttin' an end to evil schemes. Though I suppose the main difference is that a spy's true identity is usually kept a secret, while a detective's tend to be public. I actually would find the secrecy very useful. I'll admit one challenge I'm currently facin' as a detective is criminals who try to get their revenge on me off the clock. I kinda wish I went under an alter-ego so people didn't know who I was when I solved crimes... and would leave my loved ones alone.

But ya know, I never really thought 'bout bein' a spy as a career before 🤔, but I also never thought 'bout bein' a detective either, ha ha. Gosh, bein' a spy must be so much fun. I'm not sure if it's like the movies, but I'm gonna pretend it is, ha ha. I can just imagine the amazing globe-trotting adventures. Oh and think about all the super neat gadgets and tools just beggin' to be used. Oh, and what 'bout the super cool secret agent names. I like the sound of "Agent Mouse" or the "M". If ya happen to be aware of any secret organizations lookin' for a spy, send 'em my way... That is... if I'm not already in one 🥸.

But to answer your last question... Donald as a superhero? Hm... Well... I guess... I mean... I dunno. He's already a pretty busy guy. I mean he's currently raisin' three boys who can be a handful at times. Plus Scrooge is always draggin' him 'round Duckburg or even the world to do some kinda job. I just don't think he would have the time. Plus I love Donald, but he has some traits that are pretty iconic and I feel like would be a dead giveaway on who he is. First of all he does struggle a bit when it comes to luck, which could make bein' a hero difficult. But also, not to be mean, Donald has a bit of a... well... ya know... a temper.

I'm not sayin', he could never be a superhero. I think he would be a great one, despite his... flaws. But I think what truly stops me is what superhero would he be. Gizmoduck? The Red Bat? Darkwing Duck? Cloverleaf? The Duck Avenger!?!? Honestly, none of these seem right, especially the last one. I will say though, I'm very interested in where this question comes from. I never really thought 'bout my friends havin' secret identities as superheroes. It's actually kinda fun to think about. Like imagine if Goofy was... Hm... Oh! I got it! Supergoof 😆 ha ha ha. Oh, and Minnie can be... well... she can be... Okay, I don't know many female mice superheroes... But maybe she can change that. 😏

- M.M.

[atwistedandbrokentale]

A duck verse/mouse verse au I’ve thought up

So I noticed that in Italian Disney comics, a trend is to make most Disney characters superheroes.

Donald is Paperinik or the duck avenger as I’ve heard he’s called in America (where I’m from), Goofy is super goof (likely an american product but it still counts in my point) and Daisy even has super daisy.

And then there’s Donald’s family. Fethry is the red bat, Gladstone is Clover Leaf, Gus is iron Gus, and even Scrooge is the masked tophat!

But there’s one character that doesn’t get in the fun and that’s Mickey Mouse

While it’s nice to have the duckverse shine, I can’t help but wonder what could be. How it would be if Mickey Mouse was in on the fun.

So that’s where this au comes in! An alternative reality were Mickey does get a heroic alter ego.

Only if you know me, you’d know I love to put my favorite characters in a villain arc. The cuter they are, the better and no one is as cute as Mickey Mouse. I haven’t shown it much but I have thought up so many villain au’s that I’ll probably never show. But this is different (I hope).

So I thought: why not make him a villain? And since most of Disney superheroes are parodies/inspired by DC superheroes, why not base him off a DC supervillain?

But the only one I could think off was the joker. I mean Duck avenger is based off Batman. But that doesn’t make any sense, right? They’re completely different. But then I thought: WAIT IT DOES MAKE SENSE!!!!

Think about it: the duck avenger is inspired by Batman and Batman usually has the joker as a foil. Batman is a gritty stoic hero while the joker is a crazy theatrical villain. Duck avenger (and by extension Donald Duck) is rather dark and stoic, more logical straight forward. And who is his foil? Mickey Mouse!!! Mickey is silly and fun, cheery and smiley. Like an entertainer. Or a clown??!

Not to mention, the joker is shown to be an  absurdist. He believes that life is meaningless and nothing more than a joke and the only way to survive is to embrace the madness. It’s also shown that he is aware that his world is a comic book and not real in the sense that we are

So what if Mickey is aware that he’s fictional? How life really is a joke? Their lives has a purpose, yes, but that purpose is to make people laugh. And the only way to survive is to just.. embrace it.

Of course, they are not completely the same. Mickey has *let me just check my notes here* “morals” and “an actual sense of humor”.

I’m not sure how Mickey becomes a villain. Maybe it’ll be like megamind where they know it’s a story and just wants to fill a role

I’m not sure where I was going with this but if anyone is interested, I’ll make more of this au

[thepagansun]

Hi can I ask what made you a big fan of Donald Duck?

Hi!! Great question. I think it was the fact that he's the most relatable out of the Sensational Six. That he was the first to be shown as a great adventurer (Scrooge was added later). I love his berserker rages and feats of physical strength.

That he's capable of so many badass feats and has so many just as badass alter-egos (superhero, secret agent, monster-hunter, ninja, mage).

That he's canonically served in both Army (during WWII no less) and Navy (in 1987 Ducktales).

That he's influenced so many things both in fiction (he's the reason for the expanded Duck universe in the comics, Indiana Jones, Inception, Star Wars, anime itself were all inspired by his Carl Barks comics) in addition to real world events too (University of Oregon's Fighting Ducks football team mascot was based off him).

And finally because he took in his three nephews when he didn't have to and tries his best to give them a good life.

[flaetsbnort]

The Italians, on the other hand....

(Yeah, Donald Duck's superhero alter-ego got a gritty reboot in Italy. Only a few scattered issues were published here, but I found it quite good????)

It's absolutely true that Tumblr has a deeply America-centric view of popular media, but it's also true that folks often have very strange ideas about which pieces of media are and are not artefacts of the American media landscape. I recently had someone assert to me that Donald Duck is only popular in America.

[ducktoonsfanart]

Donald Duck and Daffy Duck as superheroes with their kids - Duck Avenger (Paperinik), Stupor Duck, Toxic Avengers and Little Paperiniks (Ducklings Avengers) - Duck comics, Looney Tunes and Tiny Toons Crossover - Duckverse - Happy birthday to Daffy Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie!

Another drawing related to the birthday of Huey, Dewey and Louie, but this time as a crossover with the birthday of the best duck besides Donald, which is Daffy Duck. Yes, I drew as a crossover of my favorite ducks, but I drew them as classic superheroes.

On April 17, 1937, Daffy Duck appeared in Porky's Hunt (classic short) and later became one of the main characters in Looney Tunes. At the same time, Daffy is one of my favorite characters not only in Looney Tunes, but also in cartoons and comics in general. I also love the crazy silly Daffy, and I also love him as a jerk, as both characters suit him. I drew Daffy as Stupor Duck (a parody of Superman) who played the given role in the classic short of the same name (from 1956) directed by Robert McKimson. I also drew Duck Avenger was created in 1969 in a comic book by Guido Martina and Giovanni Carpi (correct me about the name of the author) and since then Donald has been an avenger and later he will be a real superhero. And there are Donald's nephews who are little Duck Avengers or Little Paperiniks or Ducklings Avengers who imitate their uncle as a superhero, so they are also superheroes even though they don't know that Duck Avenger is their uncle (who has read the comics, knows what I'm talking about). By the way, I drew this as a redraw from the comic book cover by Donald Soffritti who drew it two years ago and it was published by Topolino a year ago. I just added their usual baseball caps instead of sailor caps that fit them for that. And then there's Plucky Duck as Toxic Revenger (a parody of Toxic Avenger if you know about the two movies, one from 1984, the other from 2023) who is one of his superhero alter egos and appeared in several episodes of Tiny Toons Adventures and he mainly fights against those who pollute the environment, and above all his main rival is Montana Max. Yes, Plucky is Daffy's student in Tiny Toons, and in my headcanon he is Daffy's nephew, because if Donald has his nephews, then Daffy has his. Is not it? XD

I mostly drew it my way in my style where together they defend Duckburg and Toontown as well as the world from villains, with Donald and Daffy not really getting along. But again, they certainly work great together, at least in my opinion. Yes, I do prefer Duck Dodgers, but I put Stupor Duck here, because it's still a classic.

I hope you like this drawing and this idea, and feel free to like and reblog this, but please don't use the same ideas of mine without mentioning me and without my permission. Thank you! Also, happy birthday to Daffy Duck and happy birthday to Donald's nephews! And Happy 55th Anniversary Duck Avenger (Paperinik)!

[ducklooney]

It is unfortunate that I did not manage to make a special jubilee related to, perhaps to me, the best version of Paperinik, PKNA (Paperinik New Adventures), which started 25 years ago, with the publication of the first comic about it, on March 14, 1996. This new edition of Topolino, which talks about that anniversary, was released on March 14 this year and contains a comic about it. What I like about PKNA in general (everything related to PKNA) is that Donald meets a different self and faces worse dangers than he had before. True, there are dark scenes there, but that doesn't bother me at all about it, because of course things like that will appear there. All in all, although quite late, I wish Paperinik a happy anniversary and I hope to make some special about it soon. Also, it is unfortunate that Disney ignores such materials from which it would make animated series and animated movies about Paperinik.

[fi3stazo]

so that villain au? 👀

(5/7/23 edit: this version isn’t up to date anymore!)

(Rereading this after I typed everything out, apologies that it’s so long 💀)

I’m just gonna try my best cause explaining things aren’t exactly my forte </3

(AU under the keep reading because this is really long </3)

I’ve been calling this AU like the uh. Dolor universe. Like I call the Panchito from that world Dolor!Panchito. Anyways also in both worlds, Panchito and José are already in an established relationship So first off, like yours, Panchito and José go on an adventure with the McDuck family and in the end José is swallowed up by magic from some sorcerer. Of course Panchito doesn’t react well to this and he’s uh. Sad. He quietly distances himself from the McDuck after that

Donald feels bad and then he gets the brilliant idea to show one of the gazillion artifacts that Scrooge has to Panchito, which is basically opens dimensional portals. It is also very fragile. Donald has Panchito come over to the manor to look at it, and basically says that they could maybe try finding a José that lost his Panchito and bring him over so that maybe they could be together or something(?)

As they’re flipping through dimensions(?) they look at numerous Josés. Then they spot one who acts, talks, looks, everything, exactly like their old José. This José is the one from our dimension. Panchito was fairly reluctant until now. He gets kind of excited and states that he’d like to bring that one over. Donald goes no no that one has a Panchito

(Dolor!)Panchito gets a bit upset and grabs the artifact from Donald and insists on at least meeting him. Donald grabs it back and says they’re not bringing that one over. They fight over the artifact until it slips from Donald’s hands and it shatters on the floor, rendering it useless. Something in Panchito snaps, and he leaves. Panchito basically cuts himself off from the McDuck family and Donald unintentionally planted a seed from this interaction.

This next part I’m not really sure what happens, either Panchito gets pointers from someone or he does it on his own, but he tries to open his own portal to our world. He has to do suspicious side jobs to achieve it and whatnot. Anyways back to what I consider canon (In comes Paperinik! Duck Avenger???? Whatever name of his that you prefer. I prefer Paperinik cause it vaguely sounds like “paper n’ ink” but anyways)

Paperinik, AKA Donald(if you didn’t know, Paperinik’s this superhero alter-ego of Donald’s in some comics. It slaps way harder than it should tbh, anyways) notices the activity and puts an end to it. And then Panchito tries a different way and Paperinik stops him again. And uhh this basically goes on for a few years. Also Panchito gets his own new place to stay, and avoids his family in Mexico(my hc one, at least). And uhh he gets an outfit change

Don’t know if I want this to happen either but maybe Panchito pieces it together that Donald is Paperinik down the line. Maybe Paperinik says something that was kind of personal and makes Panchito go how would you know that. Or mf follows Paperinik home one day or something, I don’t know but if he does find out then it’d make for some pretty cool dialogue. Idk I feel like I shouldn’t because I think it would make him too op or something

Back to canon, after a while Paperinik mentions something about his gadgets being made by Gyro. (I’m not sure if I wanna go with the og Gyro or the 2017 one but I think I’ll just use a mixture of both.) Panchito jumps to the conclusion that perhaps he can get this Gyro guy to make him a dimensional portal. So Panchito tracks him down, and basically. Holds him hostage and forces him to work on a dimensional portal. He crushes/destroys Lil’ Bulb on his way in and even shoots Gyro’s foot at some point because he tried getting help 💀

But uhh eventually the portal device is finished and Panchito leaves Gyro and runs off with the device to use it on his own. He observes our world for a little bit before he actually crosses over.

There, while our José was asleep, Dolor!Panchito just. Takes him to his place in his dimension. Yeah anyways Dolor!Panchito dons his old clothing again to look more like our Panchito, and gives José some dumb excuse as to why he woke up in a new place. Though hesitant, José trusts him because Panchito hasn’t ever intentionally betrayed his trust before. Dolor!Panchito essentially plays along with our world’s consistencies in hopes that José won’t realize he’s in a different dimension. He doesn’t need to cover up his personality given that since José’s here now, he feels more happier and some of his old spirit comes back with it if that makes sense Eventually José pieces clues together from Dolor!Panchito’s abode that, oh god, he’s not in his own world. (The final nails in the coffin was Dolor!Panchito failing to get rid of some written plans and not hiding the dimensional device well enough. Probably. Other telltale sign I think: Dolor!Panchito gets angry at the mention of Donald.) José reasonably gets upset and demands Dolor!Panchito to bring him back to his world. Though agitated, Dolor!Panchito obliges. Hesitantly. And Dolor!Panchito just goes back into his normal attire seeing that he can’t change José’s mind anymore.

They both travel to our dimension, and José reunites happily with Panchito and Donald. Both have been freaking out because he’s been gone for a few days, at least. Dolor!Panchito gets angry watching, especially at Panchito. Something about Panchito being the reason why José didn’t want to stay, that it was his fault. Dolor!Panchito starts a physical fight with Panchito. Panchito was upset that he kidnapped his partner anyways so he goes with the fight

The two actually get out of José and Donald’s sight at some point because it was a lot of running around and the fight just kept moving but anyways there comes a point where Panchito shoots Dolor!Panchito’s foot (ah, irony,) albeit accidentally. Dolor!Panchito gets a burst of anger from that and he manages to knock out Panchito. Then, he gets the idea to swap clothes with him. You probably get where this is going. Donald and José catch up and Dolor!Panchito pretends to be their Panchito and basically goes ohhhhh my god guys he shot my leg, we should put him back in his dimension before he wakes up

Dolor!Panchito pretends to fumble with the dimensional device he used and just so happens to press the right buttons to open a portal to his home dimension. The three toss Panchito though and keep the device on their side and close the portal. Eventually Panchito gathers his bearings and wakes up somewhere he’s unfamiliar with.

An (recovering) Dolor!Gyro and Dolor!Paperinik find him and assume he’s their Panchito. (Dolor!Lil’ Bulb is there and okay btw, Dolor!Gyro was able to fix him.) After a small tussle and some explaining from Panchito, the two believe him and agree to help return him to his dimension. Since the dimensional device didn’t come with Panchito, Dolor!Gyro has to make a new one and that prolly takes less time than the last considering he would already have the plans done and he’d just need to make it. The three make it to our dimension.

They get to Donald, José, and Dolor!Panchito. (Cue Donald and Dolor!Paperinik/Donald desperately trying to pretend to be different people lol) Donald and José don’t believe them when they say that the Panchito they’re with is the wrong one. (Panchito hasn’t changed out of Dolor!Panchito’s attire or anything so that probably made it worse.) Dolor!Panchito of course plays along. Dolor!Gyro tells them to ask Dolor!Panchito about an event only Panchito would know, within the same period of time Dolor!José has been presumed dead. José asks the question and Dolor!Panchito answers incorrectly, and Panchito corrects him. Yeah so cat’s out of the bag

Don’t know how it gets to this point but maybe José, Donald, or Panchito ask why this is happening and such. If Dolor!Panchito knows Dolor!Paperinik’s identity, then Dolor!Paperinik is the one who recounts what happened to Dolor!José. If he doesn’t, then perhaps Dolor!Panchito begrudgingly recounts it instead. Donald says he thinks they might be able to help with that.

See, José got swallowed by magic in both dimensions, but one he got out and the other he didn’t. In our world, the family defeats the sorcerer and basically forces him to try and bring back José, which he succeeds in. In theirs, the sorcerer got away.

(By the way, is the sorcerer based off of a pre-existing character perchance??? Or is he an Oc??)

Donald says that the family and the sorcerer are on decent-ish terms, given that they’re on a truce. That they can try and convince the sorcerer to cross dimensions with them to try and bring Dolor!José back.

So, yeah. That’s what they try to do and it works. Dolor!Panchito is reunited with Dolor!José, a happy ending I think-? I’m not sure what happens next but I want to solidify everything in the story to this point first before I continue to add on.

This story will probably change a bit, so this isn’t the final version, obviously. There’s things like the designs especially that I’m kind of on the fence about right now. I’m okay with Dolor!Panchito’s design but I might change a few things later. Also about that. I originally intended for this universe to be almost exactly like ours, which means everyone’s designs will likely be the same. Just kind of bothers me that Dolor!Panchito is the only one that changes. But I think I’ll stay with the majority of the designs being basically the same as the originals. The reason why Dolor!Panchito fixates on our world specifically so much is because it’s exactly the same as his(almost, except him) and I don’t want to stray from that logic

Anyways, all done! Thanks for asking!

[lucktales]

(This triggered something inside of me so if anybody cares a bit about Donald Duck and its popularity in the Netherlands: here you go. A full-on 700 words about it by the one and only lucktales.)

Actually, there is another 'type' in the Netherlands and they are 'the' pockets, comic pockets of around 300 A5-sized pages with stories about Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and friends.

They are compilations of different stories, written and drawn by different Italian, Dutch or Danish writers/illustrators. The stories are always translated into Dutch, but because of these comic pockets, the Donald Duck Weekly ('Donald Duck Weekblad' in Dutch) has the opportunity to not show some characters in the weekly and that makes it more special because none of their stories are re-used.

Fun fact: They also have a special Daisy Duck Monthly ('Katrien Duck Maandblad' in Dutch) and also a Donald Duck Junior, which has a bigger and clearer font for children with dyslexia or younger children in general.

Left to right: - Donald Duck Weekblad: 26th week paper of 2023 (also the most recent and I have literally TWO OF THEM currently laying on my desk) (usually Donald is on the cover though, to clear up confusion with the Katrien/Daisy version) - Katrien Duck: 6th month paper of 2023 (most recent too) - Donald Duck Junior: 21st week paper of 2009

And about the pockets, I am pretty sure there are already more than 1.000 pockets ever published. The 'main' pocket series is now close to its 400th edition, but there are also loads of other series, like the 'Dubbelpockets', literally translated to 'double pockets' and the 'Thema Pockets', literally translated to 'theme pockets'. These two are kind of the same and are like the normal ones but have twice as many pages and there is one general theme for all the stories (e,g, 'farming' or 'cowboy').

Left to right: - Donald Duck Pocket 116 - Donald Duck pocket 306 - Donald Duck Thema Pocket ('farming')

Then there are a few series that aren't that big but not that small either: one of them is the 'History Pockets' in which you travel through 12 different time periods such as the Renaissance, the Middle Ages and the 19th century.

There is also a series called 'Premium Pockets', about the different alter egos of characters, such as 'Superdonald' (the superhero life of Donald), 'Dubbelduck' (literally: Double Duck, the secret agent life of Donald), 'Mickey's Mysteries' (the detective life of Mickey Mouse), 'Darkwing Duck' (hard to explain but DuckTales fans know this one) and a few others.

Left to right: - Superdonald: Saviour Of The Planet - DubbelDuck: The Power Of The Organisation - Darkwing Duck: The Fear Of The Night

Fun fact: Next to these big and fairly big ones, there are tons of small series, a few recent ones include 'Donald Duck de wereld rond' ('Donald Duck around the world', five comics of around 500 pages with stories related each to a different continent), 'Club Donald Duck' (a still on-going series about young Donald Duck and his friends, written like 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' with drawings and text).

So, that was my rambling about Donald Duck in the Netherlands, and one last thing: these things aren't just for nerds, EVERYBODY knows Donald Duck Weekly and the pockets. They are everywhere, at coffee shops next to the newspaper, in the supermarkets next to the tabloids, literally everywhere. People collect them and keep them together on a shelf (fun fact, the sides of the pockets form a picture when you get them all!).

- Left: Donald Duck Weekly Company produces all kind of merchandise like beanbags, wallpaper, duvet covers, school and sports bags, pencil cases, drinking cups, posters and wall stickers. - Right: put a few pockets next to each other and there you go, a fun picture to brag about to your friends ;)

I spent way too much time on this *sigh*

EDIT: HELP IDK WHY THE PICTURES ARE SO BIG

Which one is your favourite?

[ducklooney]

Duckvember - Haggard, Brave, Coordinated and Loutish Duck (Ducks)

I drew the first drawing more than a month ago, while I drew the other two drawings on November 17, that is, yesterday.

A little more topics, but somehow to combine everything in one. The first drawing refers to Coordinated Duck, i.e. Donald Duck who is between good and evil, i.e. between angel and devil. This is actually a partial redraw of a scene from a classic short called "Donald's Better Self" from 1938 and it's one of my favorite classic Donald Duck shorts. Under the direction of Jack King, and one of the writers for the script was Carl Barks. Of course, Donald needs to go to school and grow up, and his conscience, that is, Angel Donald, helps him in that, but there is also a bad side, that is, Devil Donald, who drags him away from there. In the end, Donald dies, but his guardian angel saves him and drives the devil back to where he belongs, and Donald returns to school.

The second drawing also refers to Coordinated, but also to Haggard and Brave Duck. It's great to see Duck Avenger (Papernick-Donald's superhero alter ego) and Darkwing Duck (Drake's superhero alter ego) in one place, but there's also another superhero named Gizmoduck (Fenton's superhero alter ego). Although Darkwing and Paperinik have similar egos, they still seem to dislike Gizmoduck even more. Especially Darkwing who can't stand him. Gizmoduck who is the savior of both Duckburg and St. Canard, and Duck Avenger and Darkwing don't really like competition. I also drew in the classic style of what they look like in the comics of both the OG Ducktales and the OG Darkwing Duck. Otherwise, I would like it to be a crossover between these three superhero ducks.

And the third drawing refers to Haggard and Loutish Duck. Actually more ducks. Although Donald Duck and Drake Mallard are superheroes, they have a lot to do at home, especially to take care of their children, and they are the best duck parents. However, due to the excessive ego, there are a lot of troubles and comical quarrels between them. Drake has a daughter Gosalyn and Donald has his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. Both Gosalyn and HDL make trouble for their parents and fool around. Yes, both Drake and Donald were naughty when they were boys. And that although they are not rude, certainly Gosalyn and HDL cause a lot of trouble, but they are certainly good children. It's a real shame that except for one comic and a couple of episodes of the Ducktales reboot, there was no relationship between Gosalyn and HDL, as well as between Donald and Drake, since they all share common personalities.

Sorry for the long post, I don't know how to make it shorter. I certainly hope you like these drawings.

[maxwell-grant]

I keep on not sending this because I keep assuming that surely, SURELY, someone else will ask you for your opinion on this particular intersection of pulp and superheroes, it's the most obvious character in the world. But it hasn't happened yet, so: thoughts on Fantomex?

Well, no one said that being the change you want to see in the world was going to be a pleasant task. It's weird actually that I had never given Fantomex much thought until you asked me this, because it's not like I've never read anything the character's in (although I'm definitely not fully caught up to everything he's been in, even I have my limits and getting fully caught up on X-Men is one of them), Uncanny X-Force was actually one of my very first superhero comics and I remember thinking "wow, this Fantomex guy is pretty cool, I bet the only reason I haven't seen him in any cartoons or films yet is because they just created him, I can't wait for him to show up in those". And then that just never happened.

I am definitely thankful that I picked up a couple of his experiences to answer this properly because, WOW talk about a character whose existence I had to know more about ASAP.

It was kind of around the point where I started writing pieces around intersections of pulp heroes and superheroes that I started thinking to myself "I wonder if Grant Morrison's ever had anything to say about Fantomas, because I imagine they'd be all over a self-reinventing, surrealist and archetypical pop culture icon with over a century of history to draw from", and turns out they've actually had a couple of things to say about Fantomas at least twice.

Not just with Fantomex, who at first glance is Diabolik in white spandex to the point of almost being a brazen rip-off (and I've definitely seen some Diabolik fans displeased at this, and I hardly blame them), but later with Max Nomax, who throws it in the transformative influence roulette that Morrison crafts everything from. I have not touched Annihilator yet, but I did some digging on it after I found your post about it with someone describing the character as "at once the tragic, righteous, genius champion of the shadows, and the maniacal, masterminding, performance artist mass murderer", and picking up the similarity, I found this panel and, wow this really is Grant Morrison playing around with Fantomas's history. It even looks like it's referencing some of the earliest weird Fantomas serials and plays that played it more for farce, like Ernst Moerman's Mr Fantomas.

In that regard it becomes somewhat appparent that Fantomex is almost a prototype for Nomax, an early take on the idea drawing more directly from the source that would later be reinvented as something more distinctly authorial. And on the other hand, the thing that strikes me most about Fantomex is that he goes a long way towards condensing the history of Fantomas and the European arch-criminal archetype into a single character. He really is the 20th Century Fantomas, literally created in a lab to check as many traits from Fantomas and Diabolik and Lupin and their successors as they could fit in in his three brains and later three separate personas, because much like Moon Knight, you can't have a cross-section between pulp and superheroics without a little, or a lot, of crazy going in the mix.

In fact, you wanna know what other Fantomas/Diabolik inspired character this guy keeps reminding me of as I read his stories? Paperinik, Donald Duck's costumed alter-ego originally designed as a Diabolik pastiche (and pretty dang villainous in those stories), who eventually became more of a sci-fi superhero. I've been catching up to Paperinik New Adventures these past days and I found it incredibly amusing that, somehow, both Donald Duck and Fantomex are pulp villain-inspired superheroes who made the jump to superheroics, largely for selfish reasons but gradually more humane ones for why they stuck with it, and with one of their chief assets being an incredibly advanced artificial intelligence for a partner, who gives them both incredible machines to pilot and yield as well as a sassy talking head/base of operations, and both can also appear as disembodied green figures.

Fantomex is one of those characters who comes pre-packaged with enough material for an entire long-running franchise in their own right, and despite how complicated some of his history can get, I find him to be a really versatile character to throw into just about any team or scenario, played up both as a genuine badass to end all badasses as well as a pretentious prick in need of humility who gets called out for botching the dumb accent he puts on to try and sound cool. I imagine this guy talking almost like the Spy from Team Fortress 2, ANOTHER Diabolik-inspired dude and man this character really hits all the home runs for me, I really would like to write him someday.

While I can't say I really enjoyed Fantomex MAX, the potential is absolutely there for Fantomex to thrive solo, and apparently I understand it's bordering on running gag at this point big name creators like Morrison handing The Big Two all of these conceptual turdurckens with dozens of angles both profitable and critically acclaimed and fan-appeasing to pick from, and they tend to do nothing with those or just pick the absolute worst ideas to run with.

Fantomex really is one of the most obvious intersection of pulp and superheroes in Marvel's roster, and definitely one of the more versatile of the bunch, a natural amidst both the punchy team-ups as well as weird solo adventures. He gets to walk side by side with the superheroes and do missions for them, but they don't like him that much because he will kill a child without hesitation and he's got a habit for seducing their partners and going evil with his split personalities every now and then, and he doesn't like them much either because they are unprofessional has-beens and self-important pretenders and hypocrites who aren't that much better than him. But, fine, he walks their world for now, and sometimes, he gets to call them to his world for a change.

SERIOUSLY, can you imagine how happy I was to find out that Marvel actually has a character who exemplifies literally my point about pulp heroes being cut from a separate and weirder world than the superheroes? That the X-Men's most literal example of a pulp character has an entire backstory where he comes from a bizarre realm of sea monsters and giant robots and mind-bending architecture that he occasionally has to gather up a bunch of superhero pals to breach, and every time he comes back, the place gets weirder and weirder and his existing clone in there warps into shapes he barely recognizes, because things tend to change unexpectedly when you stop looking at them.

You gotta understand how much this character and this concept feels like it was gift wrapped for me and the existing story ideas I have already been working on. So, yeah, I'm definitely interested in reading more of what he's been a part of, and then presumably joining the ranks of fans frustrated that he's not getting the attention and care he deserves.

[brisingr-sword]

ducktales au where scrooge is batman… donald’s already got his own superhero/vigilante alter ego so he’ll just be the duck avenger… huey dewey and louie ALL being robins. bad guys would be like “robin >:(“ and theyd be like “which one?” webby as orphan. lena would be spoiler (fits SO WELL). and obviously goldie is catwoman.

i think maybe della should have been the first robin. she gets a jason-like arc except so very different too.