>John D. Rockerduck
>not John D. Rockerfeather
Ya dun goofed, Barks.
What exactly is his personality anyway? In what way is he different from Glomgold?
>>77550448
Barks only ever used him in one story near the end of his career. For some reason he took off in Europe. Maybe it's because he was more "American" than White South African Glomgold?
>>77550479
Maybe it's simply because he lives closer to Scrooge and thus they have more possibilities to meet.
>>77549538
Quackerfeller would also work, I feel.
>>77550479
People didn't like putting Glomgold in the stories during apartheid. Disney changed him to Scottish like Scrooge when Ducktales came around. Maybe Rockerduck was an easy substitute.
>>77550448
Rosa had a good idea for a difference.
Scrooge worked for his money. Glomgold st9le and swindled it. Rockerduck just inherited it, so he's a braggart who doesn't know the value of hard work, like a Gladstone for Scrooge
>Vanderquack
Im a TV pleb and never read the comics. Does she have Super-rich parents?
>>77550851
She doesn't exist outside of the tv show.
>>77550479
Excuse me, but in Glomgold's case, the correct term is "Boer".
At least that's what he said he was in The Life and Times of $crooge.
I guess he was like lesser villain to Scrooge. Glomgold pretty much wants Scrooge dead, don't know about Rockerduck tho.
Barks cannot goof
>>77551285
Rockerduck's Scrooge's main antagonist in a lot of European countries, to the point where the casuals in those countries think Glomgold's just an early discarded version of Rockerduck.
Italyfag detected
>>77550479
It's not even Europe as a whole, but mostly Italy (also Brasil, I think). Scandinavian comics often use both, although they never portray Glomgold as Buer, but as Scottish like Scrooge.
I will post this if you don't mind.
>>77550639
in European(mostly Italian) stories, though, the difference is different.
There, Rockerduck is usually he first one jumping on new ways to make money, like dotcoms, green economy, etc, with Scrooge playing the part of the old fossil stuck in the past... until he surpasses Rockerduck at his own game
In older stories, there was more a portrayal of Rockerduck as a New Rich, enjoying\wasting money.
Also, in a sort of roles-reversal over time, in older Italian stories Scrooge had no problem whatsoever cheating, contra-banding, industrial thieving, etc while that role has become, over the years, mainly Rockerduck's
Still, Rockerduck is usually portrayed as perfectly competent Number #2 only because Scrooge is absurdly lucky.
>>77551553
Nigga, those Italian-written Duck comics were all over Yurop.
And then Scrooge paid off his buddy Teddy Roosevelt to bust Rockerduck's trust.
>>77549538
How would the reader know he was a duck if he didn't have duck in his last name?
>>77551635
>old school - the pre-stone age school
Jesus Christ. Forget the gasoline, Huey's burns will get you to the hospital the fastest.
>>77551652
>>77550448
glomgold is in many ways meaner and more rotten, hes also despicted as being about as cheap as scrooge himself
Rockerfeather is willing to spend big money if it means he wins, he also has an obsession with eating his hats for some reasons, i think it started as him saying "i will eat my hat if scrooge wins" and it took off from there
>>77551761
That's not the end, is it?
>>77549538
That always bugged me too. I guess Barks didn't want to be sued, or something...
>>77551635
>posting Carl Barks
Of course we don't mind!
>>77553003
It is. Rockerduck won.
>>77552852
IIRC it originated as a joke: "I'll eat [something unlikely] if I lose" is(was?) a common expression in Italy, and they used it as a joke having Rockerduck actually eating his hat.
It became a recurring gag whenever Rockerduck would lose. He also became quite the gourmet about hats.
>>77553070
i think at one point he ate nothing but them
>>77553060
Ha, I'm just not used to Scrooge losing to his rivals.
>>77553070
Basically like Herzog just not with a shoe.
>>77552852
>hes also despicted as being about as cheap as scrooge himself
I was reading my Rosa collection over the weekend, had a good laugh at this scene.
>>77553090
No, he always ate normal.
It's just him eating his hat is quite the iconic scene of the character
I've got a few minutes to kill, so here's Guardians of the Lost Library by Rosa.
>>77551182
>Glomgold
>Boer not Jewish lying and stealing in south Africa
>>77550448
I always saw Glomgold as the treasure hunter rival to Scrooge, while Rockerduck was the business man rival.
>>77553411
this actually makes alot of sense
sadly rockerduck kind of overlaps due to europe
Raise your hand if you saw this coming.
Hope everyone enjoyed it!
>>77553461
not really, Rockerduck is rarely on treasure hunts in European stories
there is also the fact Rockerduck is a relatively decent person, has it out for Scrooge but usually doesn't actively act to harm others
>>77553337
Not everything's about the Jews, Anon. Some day, you'll realise that.
>>77549538
FUCK
>>77550448
Glomgold is an asshole, Rockerduck is a douche
>>77549538
Glomgold is as stingy and greedy as Scrooge, but utterly murderous and downright nasty when he wants to be. He tried to kill Scrooge and his nephews in his final Barks story and is willing to lie, cheat or steal to make money.
Rockerduck is Scrooge's business rival, willing to spend money and splurge to make more money where Scrooge won't. He's nasty, troublemaking and often duplicitous, but not evil.
I want to say that it was established somewhere that Rockerduck is the 3rd richest duck just under Glomgold but I can't really think of where.
>>77553637
doesn't he have some sort of manservant to do the dirty work if such a need arises in the Italian stories?
>>77554333
Glomgold also works with the likes of Magica. I dunno if Rockerduck's ever sunk that low.
>>77554486
yeah he keeps on changing his name tough, he looks like a lawyer
glomgold only used the beagle boys or magica if anything
>>77554501
He works with the Beagle Boys at times.
This reminds me: Beagle Boys are just named Brothers B in Polish. To be fair B is prononced like an "ugh" equivalent, but it's still kinda lame
>Klaas Klever
>>77554543
what the fuck are those pants
>>77549538
>Rockerfeather
>not Rockefeather
Come on, man.
>>77554486
Scrooges butler is named Quackmore, Rockerducks butler is named Jeeves mostly.
>>77554486
Of course he has, though he's not above acting himself(he actually does it quite often)
Still, he's not going to, say, let an environmental disaster happen just to win one over Scrooge, or just to make some more money.
>>77554543
In Italian stories, he's always called Lusky(from Losco->Shady, sly)
>>77554692
>Quackmore
Wasn't that his relative? The Ducktales butler was named Ducksworth, not sure about the Italian one - he's called Battista in the original, but he was Harpagon in some translations, after the epnonymous character from Molier's The Miser.
>>77554712
In Polish translation he's named Lizoos (lizus = lackey, toady)
The way I always understood it was this:
Only Scrooge was tougher than the toughies, smarter than the smarties, and made his fortune square.
Glomgold was tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties. Rockerduck made his fortune square.
>>77551652
>Gonna suffer some serious reef grief
German comics tried to retroactively make him Scrooge's main enemy from the beginning for some reason
>>77551635
>this fucking fight
>he just tosses Scrooge into the river casually
I love Bark's hijinks
>>77554578
>Brothers B
Still better than German version. Pancerknacker, literally just "safebreakers"
>>77554788
Rockerduck is also smarter of the smartest.
He's just unlucky and not as hardcore as Scrooge, though he's no light-weight... him and Scrooge OFTEN end up in fistcuffs without a clear winner
>>77554825
That's, I think, from Italian Story and Glory of the Duck Dynasty- in that story, Scrooge's family and Rockerduck's family were rivals since the Roman Empire
>>77554773
No - Battista's English name has been Quackmore for quite a long time now. Duckworth only exists in Ducktales or DT comics stories.
What's the deal with that Italian Beagle Boy who's a normal, non-humanoid dachshund? Is this some meta joke I'm not getting
>>77554937
A lot of the Italian shit is weird, like Scrooge's secretary not only not being old but also having a human figure. The Italians clearly want to fuck the ducks but only get aroused by the bills, not the actual duck shape
>>77555003
Italian duck continuity can be weird. They do their own things that nobody else does. There's a lot of really good Italian stuff and Italian characters but they clearly have their own way of interpreting the ducks that nobody else does.
>>77554937
Yeah.
The Italian name of the Beagle Boys is Banda Bassotti==Dachshund Band.
So OBVIOUSLY they have a mascot dog who is a dachshund.
He's even called Ottoperotto(8x8), because he's BassOTTO BassOTTO(Dachshund Beagle, Otto=Italian for 8), his dogtags being, of course, 64
>>77555003
Scrooge's secretary being young is relatively recent, fanon wants her the successor to Miss Quackfaster, who retired because old age.
>>77551012
Thank god
The only good thing to come out of the show was Launchpad. But I've never seen him integrated into the comics, unless I'm just out of the loop.
>>77555076
Given Italy has been the biggest producer of Disney comics for many, many years, I'd say it's more everybody else do it wrong.
>>77555123
The Scandinavian Men in Black parody is imo better than a lot of the Italian stuff
>>77555123
That's awfully presumptuous given the Dutch, Brazilian and Netherlands have been producing Disney material for just as many years as Italy and doing just fine as well, but whatever. I think each country has its own little quirks that I like and dislike, but I dont think one is more wrong or right than the other. The only country that got it completely wrong was America because Dell/Gold Key fucked American duck and mouse fans over royally and the market never recovered
>>77555169
I love the TNT stories. They're really fun to read and actually got me to like Fethry.
>>77555080
The joke is lost in a lot of translations, German one is Achtmalacht (8x8 too) which makes no sense as a reference to their name (as other anon said before, just "safebreakers")
In Polish they gave up and it's "Bereks" - Reks/Reksio is a popular dog name, Be standas for Beagle Boys/Bracia Be
>>77555169
>Scandinavian
I gotta say, not that I know or anything but this art looks awful Italian.
>>77555299
The artist is definitely Scandinavian, he's named Flemming Andersen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_Andersen
>>77555299
Flemming Andersen's art is weird and takes some getting used to but he's expressive with his ducks as hell and all of his stuff looks great when seen as one complete thing.
>>77555299
The entire "franchise" is made by Danes, artist is German/Danish and the writer is a Dane.
There's quite a lot of continuity in this stuff which really surprised me.
>>77555341
I like him a lot, honestly, the style is very expressive and he does ok monsters considering the limitations of the setting.
Out of the Italian artists, I like Enrico Faccini a lot - his style is pretty unique (and works really well for Fethry - it seems to be his favorite character anyway), while most of the other Italian stuff all looks the same to me. He also did Fethry x Spider-Man fanart
>>77555123
Why has it taken until very recently for Disney to start translating all those weird European Duck comics into English
How are the IDW Disney comics? They're printing stuff from every country, right? I hope they stick around and eventually produce new material
>>77555266
Shit, I need to read that because I barely tolerate Fethry's existence.
>>77555518
I bought their first issue of WDC&S, it was pretty good. I've heard they want to make their own stuff soon, so that'll be nice.
>>77555508
Disney didn't care about actual Disney comics.
And it wasn't worth the hassle to translate them, when they could simply reprint older comics
Boom first and IDW now beg to differ.
>>77555411
Faccini's Fethry is GOAT, but then I like the character a lot in the first place anyway
>>77555508
Gladstone and Gemstone had started with Romano Scarpa years ago. Disney all but ignored Italian material. Gemstone printed a few more things but it wasn't until Boom that a large amount of it was finally printed. Unfortunately, outside of Darkwing Duck which was made in the states, a lot of what Boom did wasn't handled well at all. Some was but not a lot. IDW is basically doing what Boom didn't do right with the ducks and mice until the very end of its run
>>77555623
I REALLY liked their Rescue Rangers run. They even let Dale be the cool guy.
>>77555555
Nice get
>>77555555
Fethry's a good character who was handled badly for decades. The Anerican stuff they've been choosing with him in it (especially the original American made studio stories) have warned me up to him quite a bit. He's eccentric, well meaning, scatterbrained and heavily into fads but he's not Donald's version of Goofy.
>>77555555
>tripfag gets sects
Fffffffuck.
>>77549538
He was just a throwaway rival for a single gag story. Had Barks actually intended him to anything more than that, he probably would have put more thought into the name.
>>77555623
That is to say the very end of Booms run (excluding Ducktales) was good and IDW is following suit while trying to be broader in what it's printing.
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>>77555623
How long is IDW supposed to have the licenses for Disney comics? I can't see them delivering anything but 'italian duck comics:the greatest hits' in the Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge books.
It doesn't seem likely that they would be absolute madmen and release Duck comic TPBs by country of origin or anything that would let them shit out translations without being restricted by their monthlies
>>77555555
Beautiful get
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>>77549538
>not Duckafeller
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>>77555623
See, I still have fond memories of buying every Disney BOOM! Kids title (aside from Darkwing Duck, which I trade waited). Damn it, I still want Wizards of Mickey translated in its entirety!
>>77555723
>>77556042
I didn't even notice...
>>77555701
I will fight anyone who says The Muppet Show Comic is not the best ongoing of the millennium.
>>77555555
>I barely tolerate Fethry's existence.
Get of truth right here. Shit character, just exists to be LOLRANDOM! for plots.
