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Ludwig von Drake in the Italia stories is like a walking talkig Junior Woodstock Guidbook... which is ok but he's almost a diffrent character since he lost a lot of his oryginal wackyness and is very come comepering to his cartoon version

Quote from user: Robb_KI am also angry that many editors think that Emil Eagle should not be used, or just be used as a common criminal.
I don't know what you've done with the character, but in all the Lockman stories I've read that use him, he pretty much sucks. The idea of "an evil version of Gyro" is actually really interesting, in theory: imagine someone who shares most of Gyro's character traits, but is bad instead of good--or maybe not even "bad" per se; think of a Gyro version of Glomgold in his earliest appearance. That would be a character of a sort that doesn't currently exist in the Disneyverse; granted, such a one would be difficult to write, but he would be interesting and attention-catching.

But that's not anything like what we have, of course, which is a really banal, generic, and uninteresting villain.

Here are some pages of stories in which I used Emil as a rival inventor to Gyro:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/KeyToProblem3.jpg
In this story, "The Key To The Problem", jealous Emil keeps watch on Gyro, to wait for an opening to steal his invention plans. When Gyro has invented a "powerful magnetic misplaced keys retriever", which pulls the keys from where they are to a unit the owner carries, Gyro's keys are pulled so strongly from his workshop, they break the window pane when being pulled out. Emil then runs into the workshop, stealing Gyro's invention plans.
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/KeyToProblem2.jpg

In a third rival story, ("The Not-So-Alien, Alien") Emil and Gyro are in an Inventor's contest to be the first scientist to make contact with intelligent aliens from another world:
Emil spies on Gyro, copies his plans and uses resultant invention to contact "space aliens" (Gyro)
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/Alien2B.jpg
Thinking each other's contact a space alien, Gyro and Emil shocked to find they've contacted each other.
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/Alien5B.jpg
Both Gyro and Emil have cheated Duckburg's people, by contacting a fellow Duckburgian (thinking it a space alien). they and Duckburg's Mayor (event organiser) are chased by the crowd, who want their money back.
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/Alien6B.jpg

Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderAn inventor/thief could be an interesting character, if he used his inventions to steal other people's inventions. But then you're moving into "early Beagle Boys" catagory. It's not like anything that has ever been done by Emil Eagle.
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D++2878

Or am I misunderstanding something?

Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderAn inventor/thief could be an interesting character, if he used his inventions to steal other people's inventions. But then you're moving into "early Beagle Boys" catagory. It's not like anything that has ever been done by Emil Eagle.
Emil HAS been used THAT WAY-as I've done it 3 times. In addition, he's been used that way by others before me, which was the source of my confidence that I'd be allowed to use him that way.

Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderIn The Netherlands they refuse to use Ludwig. The reason? "We've already got Gyro, and this world ain't big enough for two inventors." And yes, that also sort of counts for Rockerduck. And yet they're all so different.
I always liked LVD more as a Freudian psychologist/sociologist, as compared to the emphasis being on his character being a scientist/inventor.

The humor in Drake is that he's an intellectual who lives in his head. He has theories about people and life, but I think the humor is lost when he actually makes those ideas a reality.

It's what made the character effective as a narrator, because he's observing and theorizing about what he's watching and yet very detached from the action.