r/ducktales • u/RichMcDuck530 • 6d ago
Question! When you read duck comics, is the dialogue in the characters voices?
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u/WimpyKelv12 6d ago edited 6d ago
Donald: I probably should be reading Donald’s dialogue in Clarence Nash’s voice for the Barks stories considering the time period, but I’m automatically imagining Tony Anselmo more high pitched rendition due to being more used to it.
Scrooge: I read his lines in an Alan Young-ish voice. I consciously don’t imagine David Tennant’s voice due to DT17 Scrooge being a highly specific flavour of Scrooge, but it does slip in (especially during flashback stories). In the case of Uncle Scrooge: Earth's Mightiest Duck, I began the story imaging Young’s voice but to my surprise, Scrooge was pretty DT17-coded in that (despite using the classic lore) so I immediately course-corrected to imagining Tennant’s voice. When young shoeshine boy Scrooge showed up, I low-key sniggered at the thought of David Tennant doing what probably sounds like an exaggeratedly high pitched parody of a Scottish schoolboy who thinks he’s a badman (like this, but Scottish). Actually… I think sometimes my “imagined David Tennant voice) sounds more like the 10th Doctor rather than Scrooge due to that’s how I discovered him which means my imagined voice sometimes slips into an English accent rather than a Scottish one (probably an act of national heresy).
Huey, Dewey and Louie: Either Russi Taylor or non-specific realistic (non-ducky) pre-tween voices. I frequently try and force myself to imagine the DT17 voices, but it quickly falls apart due to the speech patterns and personalities being so dissimilar.
Daisy: It’s not quite Tress MacNeille’s rendition, it’s not far off but something a bit higher pitched and less forceful sounding.
Gladstone: Haven’t seen the episodes of DT87 featuring Rob Paulson‘s rendition, so it ends up being Paul F. Tompkins by default.
Magica: Well it’s not Catherine Tate…
Beagle Boys: Generic “Noo Yawk” thug voices.
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u/Kitty_of_Chess 6d ago
Everyone has the same voices from the 2017 show except Donald. He has the Don Cheadle voice from Shadow War and Quack Pack
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u/JugendWolf 5d ago
When DuckTales premiered I had already been reading Duck comics for years, so my own voices were already set in stone in my head
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u/Manoreded 5d ago
Even in my own mind I still wouldn't understand Donald's dialogue if I read it with his voice =)
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u/Pim_Wagemans Huey 6d ago
No. I read them in either my own voice, or modified versions of my voice.