Part three! Thank you to all the MANY people who’ve been sending me some of the most touching, heart warming messages in response to this- even before it’s finished! You are all so amazing. I love you. Anyway, you know the drill- open in new tabs for good readin size yadda yadda yadda
Luck in the duck comics is a bit of a theme, huh- I’m not sure I have opinions that can’t be overturned by good story writing/unusual situations, but my general understanding of it is there’s a sort of scale that the ducks abide to and which can, in turn, affect the story and how they come out of it. Donald’s luck is probably a little more in the orange than I’ve drawn it here to be honest, and this is all without the important factor of fairness-
I’ve explored it before, but the fun thing about Gladstone and Donald going up against each other is that even though Donald’s luck is bad, if he plays fair and tries hard, then even if Gladstone ‘wins’ the contest or race or prize something always happens that makes it clear that Donald actually is better off without it, and has more valuable treasures in life already. Gladstone’s luck isn’t infallible, either, and if he tries too hard to use it, or uses it badly/for something that he doesn’t deserve, it can go completely against him. I also see him as being genuinely afraid of cursed objects, which would imply that a heavily cursed status is even stronger than his latent Triple Distelfink luck.
In terms of luck ‘cancelling out’ I would say rather than hitting an average point (e.g. Gladstones luck meeting Magica’s luck would equate to low level good luck), it is more interesting and probable that each type of luck would be active, but somehow have to compensate for the other. There’s a story where Donald gets hold of Gladstone’s gold four leaf clover (which would count as ‘augmented’ for him), and it results in everything going horribly wrong like usual… but ends up with the situation fixing itself in an equally dramatic way. He ends up returning the clover because it’s too much stress having to deal with both kinds of luck at once!
OKAY SORRY IT TOOK 1000 YEARS here’s part one of god knows how many bc it ended up being a really ungainly number of pages for tumblr’s 10 image post limit- opening in new tabs recommended for easy reading!
Anonymous asked: hey so I just read ALL your doodle comics and I love them so so much- one thing, in the latest one with Gladstone and the cat he says something like 'this is worse than that time with the kittens'- was that a reference to a comic or?
it was! it’s this short Barks comic- it’s simple but I kind of love it :’D
it’s also where I got the idea that Gladstone supposed that cats bring bad luck
shucks! I am so glad, they’re really good stuff! also- yes! there’s a lot of instances where he gets used for his luck, but I can immediately think of this instance from The Secret of Hondorica by Carl Barks (fair warning- has your typical misrepresentation of native peoples and tribes, but it does have story merit, great art and Gladstone gets to be a Real Stinker in it and totally deserves what he gets!)
just for fun: a second go at redesigning the Triple Distelfink! I wanted to try and make it more like traditional distelfink hex signs while pushing the more magic-y vibes I’ve been playing with in some of the doodle comics! Gave it the mesh design at the bottom bc I figured this might be the original Triple Distelfink which gets adapted/simplified over time, and the icon in the heart might change depending on who/what the hex was intended for.
