tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post5369757304952577364..comments2024-02-25T03:15:48.893-05:00Comments on News and Views by Chris Barat: Comics Review: UNCLE $CROOGE #391 (Boom! Kids, May 2010)Chris Barathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-47307395400916402372010-05-16T18:57:30.026-04:002010-05-16T18:57:30.026-04:00David,
Ah, that makes more sense, then. Why was ...David,<br /><br />Ah, that makes more sense, then. Why was Jeeves' name changed to Lusky, though? I can see that they wanted to avoid the cliched Wodehouse butler name, but "Lusky" doesn't tell us ANYTHING about this character's function or purpose. If anything, it reminds me of a former Disney studio employee...<br /><br />I notice that Inducks refers to Jeeves/Lusky as Rockerduck's "secretary." Does he perform both secretarial and butlering duties? If so, then THAT would be an atypical case of Rockerduck pinching pennies, using one guy in a case where he could have easily hired two.<br /><br />ChrisChris Barathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-88028143881955782512010-05-15T23:55:45.852-04:002010-05-15T23:55:45.852-04:00"Why should John D., who is well-known as a f..."Why should John D., who is well-known as a free-spending sort -- especially when it comes to one-upping Scrooge -- have relied so heavily on the actions of a single operative?"<br /><br />Because it's Italian tradition. Scrooge has his butler Quackmore, whom he keeps only to impress business partners and whom he pays starvation wages—as befits his character. Meanwhile Rockerduck has his butler Jeeves (called Lusky in this edition), whom he usually authorizes to spare no expense—as befits *his* character.<br /><br />Enough of this has gone on in Italy that Quackmore and Jeeves occasionally feature together in a story of their own, dealing with their conflicting lifestyles and relationships with their bosses.<br /><br />So — for John D. to have a mob of hired help in certain stories might make better logical sense; but it wouldn't make sense with tradition, not so much because it's out of character as because Jeeves is so well understood as Rockerduck's eternal second.ramapithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751343744514656549noreply@blogger.com