I like Ducktales but it is pretty weird that we root for this guy that just steals gold and treasure from around the world. I often hear the defense “But it’s okay that he’s rich because he earned!” which ignores the fact that presenting a world in which someone could earn that wealth is part of the propaganda. Really good art in the comics though. Maybe some day they’ll reboot the series and make it Marxist or something where Scrooge’s adventures involve him taking treasure from Museums and back to the cultures they belong to, gaining an understanding of different people in the process, kinda like what they did with Carmen Sandiago.
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is really great (art and storytelling-wise) but it’s uhhh, basically a chronicle of colonial exploitation and resource extraction (Scrooge even gets cursed for his capitalist crimes). My favorite part is probably the Yukon gold rush story.
That episode where Scrooge gets cursed is also super racist, although that’s in keeping with the original Carl Barks comics which were also very racist.
I like Ducktales but it is pretty weird that we root for this guy that just steals gold and treasure from around the world. I often hear the defense “But it’s okay that he’s rich because he earned!” which ignores the fact that presenting a world in which someone could earn that wealth is part of the propaganda. Really good art in the comics though. Maybe some day they’ll reboot the series and make it Marxist or something where Scrooge’s adventures involve him taking treasure from Museums and back to the cultures they belong to, gaining an understanding of different people in the process, kinda like what they did with Carmen Sandiago.
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is really great (art and storytelling-wise) but it’s uhhh, basically a chronicle of colonial exploitation and resource extraction (Scrooge even gets cursed for his capitalist crimes). My favorite part is probably the Yukon gold rush story.
That episode where Scrooge gets cursed is also super racist, although that’s in keeping with the original Carl Barks comics which were also very racist.