#john d rockerduck

[best-ducktales-episode]

ROUND #1

[ballpitbee]

THINKING ABOUT Ducktales so heres a ducktales appreciation post

[skizzlebeetle]

literally them

[skullsemi]

when all else fails, draw your favorite characters hugging each other, maybe the art block can be combated with the power of love or found family or whatever

You're too kind anon I also believe in the power of love or found family or whatever

Thanks for the suggestion! These were fun to sketch:)

[ye-olde-rd]

Wahhh, more mad ducktor and some rockerduck

[bitterlynsposts]

Favorite rockerduck pose

[icantthinkofagoodnameoranything]

okay but I wouldn’t mind DT17 Rocker being added to Topolino as Rockerduck’s cousin from his mother’s side. Like John D. Aristoquack—somehow more spoiled then Rockerduck.

He can come in when Scrooge is complaining about how spoiled Rockerduck is and then the narrative shows him what *real* spoiled is.

[hueberryshortcake]

ok obviously if you don't want spoilers for Hamlet Starring Donald Duck beware but here is my review and reaction

dramatis personæ:

- Hamlet: Donald Duck (Ducklet)

- King Hamlet: Scrooge McDuck (King Scrooge)

- Claudius: John D. Rockerduck (Rocklaudius) (this was definitely a choice)

- Gertrude: Brigitta MacBridge (Brigertrude)

- Polonius: Ludwig von Drake (Drakonius)

- Laertes: Gladstone Gander (Gladertes) (this one took me out the second I read it. not only does it fit bc Hamlet&Laertes and Donald&Gladstone are all foils of each other but it's also insanely fucking funny period so)

- Ophelia: I think it's probably Daisy but I straight up can't tell. but who else would it be. (Duckophelia) (this was also a choice)

- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: Fethry and Gus (Rosengoose and Guildenfeather)

- Horatio: Gyro Gearloose (Gyratio) (this one also one hit KOed me)

- Players, Gravediggers: Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Grandma Duck

more under the cut of course

premise: Scrooge takes Donald and HDL with him to Denmark for a business venture, and HDL make Donald go with them to search for the infamous ghost castle of Ducksinore, which they know about from William Duckspeare's Ducklet, their assigned reading for school. (William Drakespeare was RIGHT THERE and also what they used in dt87 but whatever.)

Ducklet is the nephew of King Scrooge, who mysteriously vanished, apparently retiring to Greenland. Rockerduck is the new king. Donald is not excited about this, and he's even more mad about Brigertrude claiming to be in love with Scrooge and then turning around and getting engaged to Rockerduck. In the courtyard that night, Donald is faced with the spectre of Scrooge, who is not a ghost but is incorporeal and inaudible to everyone but a close family member. he tells Donald that Rockerduck poured Nonsense Juice on his head that made him invisible in order to usurp the crown and Donald has to get the antidote Or Else.

(Script is by Giorgio Salati, art by Paolo de Lorenzi, translation by Erin Brady)

love this first panel of the Ducklet story, very pleasing and a lovely design

Donald is slaying in a delightful combination of his usual outfit and Hamlet-style clothes complete with doc martens. Kenneth Branagh would be proud

Scrooge kind of follows Donald around, yelling at him to hurry tf up and annoying him in the middle of normal-people conversations so that he looks crazy. all in all he is a giant bitch as usual

loving the adaptation of the SWEAR! scene

rocklaudius calls ducklet a fruitcake

a few instances of comedic timing being impeccable. also I love fethry so much btw

this adaptation of the I Knew Him Well Horatio scene

nobody dies. Donald, thinking Drakonius is Rocklaudius, stomps on his foot with his medieval combat boots after the kids put on his little play. then while Donald Ducklet is on the way to England Drakonius and Ophelia headbutt and Ophelia gets a concussion and walks around talking nonsense and singing just in time for Gladstone to get home and be like What The Hell.

the king and Gladstone hatch a plan to get Donald to drink the Nonsense Juice but Brigertrude accidentally drinks it and turns invisible. then the juice gets all over the castle and everyone in it just before the Norwegian Beagle Boys can arrive to besiege it. the whole castle turns invisible (except they can all see each other) and they decide that it's not that bad bc an invisible incorporeal castle is way harder to besiege anyway. the end

all in all: very entertaining. I feel a little crazy I can't believe that was legit

[local-meme-lord]

If have a nickle for everytime a antagonist is named after John D. Rockefeller In Disney comics, I'll have two nickels, which isn't lot but it weird that I happened twice

[darkwingsnark]

Duckvember: Scheming Duck

A couple of billionaires decided to pool in their assets for the sole purpose of one-upping Scrooge McDuck. [Just because it’s a marriage contract doesn’t make it gay or nothing.]

[best-ducktales-episode]

ROUND #1

[kathren-is-here]

Guess who decided to make a fake comic front cover thing >:)

Background behind this is Rockerduck is having another midlife crisis and Cassidy just happens to be around at the right/wrong time, leaving him the second richest duck in the world to rival Scrooge, and also Jeeves is there for some reason. Cassidy of course doesn’t want this but he has to run the many companies Rocker left him while Scrooge finds out what happened to his proper rival!

This probably won’t turn into a comic but I just wanted some colouring and shading practice, and I think this came out nice :D even the characters :D

[skizzlebeetle]

i love the idea of them just having fun together!

[skullsemi]

You know what? Yeah I'll bet he gets no work done cuz he's distracted thinking about how handsome his secretary is.

[look-how-they-massacred-them]

Preliminary Poll

John D Rockerduck

Submission reason:

look i love the new ducktales but they ruined him so much he only really appears in the european duck comics (before he appeared in dt17) which no one outside of europe reads but idc i grew up with these comics i‘m passionate about this so idc if i‘m the only one who submits him bc i love him and dt17 massacred my boi SO in the (european) comics, he‘s scrooge mcduck‘s most important business rival, he‘s really smart and pretty much as competent as scrooge and he‘s actually pretty nice and generally an honest person/duck, there‘s actually a lot of comics where he‘s doing everything fair and square and scrooge is the one sabotaging him he does sabotage scrooge too sometimes but generally they‘re on a pretty equal moral level he gets along with pretty much every single person in duckburg he even gets dragged along to scrooge‘s family vacation in one comic and then in dt17 he‘s just an asshole to everyone and steals stuff that‘s it that‘s what they reduced his character to ugh and the worst part is this is his first and only animated appearance and probably his only appearance most people (especially everyone outside of europe) has seen so that‘s what they‘re gonna associate his character with when he‘s really the exact opposite