Quote from: Fernando Ruiz on August 29, 2016, 10:11:02 AM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 29, 2016, 09:44:21 AM

That always seemed like a particularly weird fashion statement to me. Lederhosen and a little alpine hat. What possible explanation could you give for that? Did he have another job as part of the Disney "cast members" for the Disneyland Matterhorn ride?

I was always partial to lederhosen Superduck myself.


I always thought the lederhosen was part of the attempt to make Supes more along the lines of Donald Duck. When Supes gets his lederhosen, he also gets a cute nephew and a fiery self-destructive temper ala Donald. I figured the lederhosen was an arbitrary fashion choice much like Donald's sailor suit.

Donald Duck had the sailor suit in his first appearance in a Mickey Mouse cartoon "The Wise Little Hen". In that first one, he played a flute to annoy everyone, and more or less acted like a mischievous brat (it was basically just a bit role), so it seems like the character was initially conceived of as an annoying smart-alecky kid. That was actually something parents used to dress little kids in, back in the 1910s and 1920s, little sailor suits. The other reason a cartoon duck would have a sailor suit is that it's a visual metaphor for the old adage "like a duck to water", even though you never saw Donald swimming around in a pond like a duck or anything. Anyway, the sailor suit just stuck.

I don't know, maybe Super Duck was a Swiss immigrant, or he had a thing for mountain-climbing or something. He could have just kept the cape and SD monogrammed shirt. It was just as arbitrary as the name "Super Duck", after he was no longer doing anything super. The name used to drive me wacky for the longest time, before I ever saw the early stories where he actually WAS super. Actually, there's something a little bit "alternative comix"-seeming about the idea of an anthropomorphic duck just walking around in a cape and monogrammed shirt and calling himself Super Duck, but otherwise just living an ordinary life with a regular job and mundane day-to-day problems like everyone else, and no one ever remarking on the name or the way he dresses. I mean, it's a toss-up as to which would be more surreal in real life, someone just walking around doing mundane things while wearing some kind of super-costume or wearing lederhosen, so if no one's going to bat an eye at his wearing lederhosen, then why not a cape and monogrammed shirt?

Quote from: botolo on August 28, 2016, 05:07:49 PM

...Same thing for Archie. The Archie written by Mark Waid and drawn by many different artists is light years far from the classic Archie we all loved.

Yep. :/