This was the first oil painting by Carl Barks. The title comes from John Masefield’s poem “Sea Fever”. This was based on his cover to Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #108 (1949)
Synopsis: “A alternative story where Gene the Genie ends up being found by Webby and the Triples by accident because of Della Duck’s past actions.”
I’ve been thinking about this AU idea ever since Season 3 came out. I want a legit reason as to why Gene wasn’t in the original lamp from ‘Treasure of the Found Lamp!’ (S2E8), and to give it a story arc that could still connect with the series timeline and potential character development. Hope you enjoy! :)
(Clickthe link if you’d like to read the short story premise )
Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby “volunteer” to help Della Duck with spring cleaning her old room at McDuck Manor. While searching through boxes of Della’s childhood memorabilia, Webby discovers a lone dusty ceramic teapot amongst the junk and gushes about having always wanting to own one herself. Della let’s her keep it as a gift (and to also help dissuade her from taking anything else). Excited to actually own something pre-owned by Della Duck herself, Webby goes off to clean up her newest treasure. It’s at this point that Webby and the triplets are introduced to Gene the Genie, who had layed dormant inside the teapot all along.
They find out Gene HAD original resided inside the ancient lamp (that once occupied a space in the garage), but was then wished into the plain toy set ceramic teapot by his last master. This wish had been done as a protection for Gene from potential thieves, the fear of Merlock returning, and to hide his existence from rest of the McDuck family. The person who made that particular wish was none other then Della Duck, back when she was just a kid.
Having found Gene all those years ago by accident, Della become fast friends with the Genie and had the time of her life with her childish wishes (this is where I think Della would have wished for her very own pilots outfit). All of this is unbeknownst to the rest of the McDuck Manor’s household.
However, after an incident befalls the household that results in Della thinking the teapot was destroyed in the chaos (along with Gene), a previous misplacing of the teapot results in the survival of Gene and his confinement, but at the cost of him becoming trapped, alone and subsequently forgotten for years in McDuck Manor’s deep storage…until he was freed by Webby.
I’d like to think Gene and (adult) Della do meet up at some point and air out some much needed mixed past emotions. There would defiantly be a lot to talk about, with Gene being trapped in the teapot and Della being trapped on the moon for years. This may even leading them to realise they can relate to each other circumstance and give the needed help and comfort that the other needs with the help of their past isolation experiences.
And from there, you can still have ‘Quack Pack!’ (S3E2) a little later in the series, with Donald finding the teapot by accident in the Manor.
That’s gist of it! I don’t think I’ll get round to making a comic on this AU (sadly), but I thought I’d share my version for this alternate story to all you creative DT fans. I look forward to seeing what people come up with :)
This was the first oil painting by Carl Barks. The title comes from John Masefield’s poem “Sea Fever”. This was based on his cover to Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #108 (1949)
The rise of a new evil mastermind forces the Duck Avenger back into the spotlight and The kids all collectively realize every time the two get into a fight Uncle Donald is mysteriously missing… and he comes home all bruised and sore… and when they ask him how he feels about the Duck Avenger he says “He was an old friend, but we had a falling out and don’t talk anymore.” so they make the obvious conclusion that Donald is the new super villain
Father’s Day lands on the date where I was already going to draw some Delpad for myself?! It’s a two-in-one! How convenient!
Man, duck kisses are tough! I still feel like I could have done better, but I really wanted to see one…especially after all the ones we got in Season 3. ┐(´ー｀)┌
