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I'm pretty sure everyone else has expressed this in the past few weeks, but I am digging Webby's new look. Leaps and bounds above her original design which reeked of girlyness, and the shame of the character designers in the 90s who didn't know what to do with girl characters. But I suppose webby's design from the old show better illustrated the type of character she was, and this modern take on her seems to do the same.

Now, what I like about her design is her change of outfit, something that an actual kid would wear on an adventure, not a pink shirt, a doll, and a giant, oversized bow that would probably hinder her adventuring capabilities unless it could be utilized as a parachute. The smaller, less freakishly large bow on the side of her head is just right for the show that she's in. Knowing her new personality, it's probably a freakin knife or something (which I wouldn't be opposed to).

What I'm not a big fan of is the trademark vestigial cartoon skirt. Articles of clothing should either do their job, or not be considered actual clothing, The cartoon skirt does not do it's job. This is a trope that I've noticed in old cartoons sometimes, where a skirt will be added to a female character not to conceal their delicates, but rather to drive the point home that they're in fact female (much like the large, obnoxious bow that the old Webby's design was guilty of).

Some examples of characters who have this problem are Eek the cat's obese girlfriend Annabelle, Minnie Mouse, Honey (of Bosko and Honey), Babs Bunny (depending on the animation studio) and Dot Warner. This trope tends to only be prevalent with female animal characters, so I suppose the reasoning is that they're not humans and there's not much to hide. But the result of that mentality is a bunch of female cartoon animals with their skirts hiked up over their tails. And personally, it does nothing but remind me of the times I went to church as a kid, and was subjected to my younger cousins with their Sunday dresses stuck in their pantyhose (proof that they dressed themselves that morning). And seeing practically the same thing when I got home but with cartoon characters would always make me face palm. I would feel the same way if a male cartoon character walked around with his pants around his ankles, nothing but an obnoxious distraction.

Anyway, It wasn't my intention to go off on a tangent about Webby's exposed tail-feathers. What I really wanted to talk about was her hair.

Full disclosure, I never liked the original ducktails, I don't know what it was, but when I was a kid, I couldn't get into it. Even as a cartoon loving adult, I couldn't find the shows charm, I couldn't find a real reason to give it a proper chance. One of my biggest problems with the show was Webby and her dumb girl face. It's one thing to be cute, it's another thing to be adorable, but then, there is just over-the-top, honey and lollipops, marzipan in a bowl full of gum drops and jolly rancher's sweet. That's where I draw the line. In a cartoon, I need all of the characters to have a role, not a cliché archetype. All she did was complain, Be cute, hug her doll, be cute, be talked down to buy the boys, be cute, oh and one more thing, she was being cute! Not only that, but I could hardly understand her, same with the boys, it was like listening to four Donalds for half an hour, I just couldn't do it.

When they announced that ducktails would be doing a reboot, I thought to myself, maybe I would like this new one, I proceeded with cautious optimism. The first thing I saw was Webby, sticking her head out of a moving vehicle, her eyes wide open, grinning (with no teeth because she's a fucking duck) ear to nonexistent ear, with her hair flying in the wind, full of life, full of energy, a complete juxtaposition to the character that I knew Webby to be. Usually adding a mop top to a character doesn't do much, but for Webbie, it was like a whole new character for some reason, like it was something she was missing the whole time. I suppose Webby growing those luscious locks were a symbol of the character growing herself, artists like to throw little things like that into a design of the character sometimes, so I wouldn't put it past them. From that one image I knew this one would probably be different, and I was right. It's not too often that a reboot makes me completely love a thing that I was completely indifferent to only half a year prior.

Could all this be thanks to the hair? Dose Webby Vanderquack and Shirley the Loon have something in common? The same shampoo maybe? I don't know, but if you read all this shit then congratulations, you deserve a prize, here it is:

🍡 👈. Here, it's yours, take it!

And what do you guys think about the ducktails reboot? Is it a good, is it a bad, do you like the new designs? What are your thoughts on that weird "business in the front and party in the back" thing that Webby's dress does? let me know in the comments.

Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!

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I'm pretty sure everyone else has expressed this in the past few weeks, but I am digging Webby's new look. Leaps and bounds above her original design which reeked of girlyness, and the shame of the character designers in the 90s who didn't know what to do with girl characters. But I suppose webby's design from the old show better illustrated the type of character she was, and this modern take on her seems to do the same.

Now, what I like about her design is her change of outfit, something that an actual kid would wear on an adventure, not a pink shirt, a doll, and a giant, oversized bow that would probably hinder her adventuring capabilities unless it could be utilized as a parachute. The smaller, less freakishly large bow on the side of her head is just right for the show that she's in. Knowing her new personality, it's probably a freakin knife or something (which I wouldn't be opposed to).

What I'm not a big fan of is the trademark vestigial cartoon skirt. Articles of clothing should either do their job, or not be considered actual clothing, The cartoon skirt does not do it's job. This is a trope that I've noticed in old cartoons sometimes, where a skirt will be added to a female character not to conceal their delicates, but rather to drive the point home that they're in fact female (much like the large, obnoxious bow that the old Webby's design was guilty of).

Some examples of characters who have this problem are Eek the cat's obese girlfriend Annabelle, Minnie Mouse, Honey (of Bosko and Honey), Babs Bunny (depending on the animation studio) and Dot Warner. This trope tends to only be prevalent with female animal characters, so I suppose the reasoning is that they're not humans and there's not much to hide. But the result of that mentality is a bunch of female cartoon animals with their skirts hiked up over their tails. And personally, it does nothing but remind me of the times I went to church as a kid, and was subjected to my younger cousins with their Sunday dresses stuck in their pantyhose (proof that they dressed themselves that morning). And seeing practically the same thing when I got home but with cartoon characters would always make me face palm. I would feel the same way if a male cartoon character walked around with his pants around his ankles, nothing but an obnoxious distraction.

Anyway, It wasn't my intention to go off on a tangent about Webby's exposed tail-feathers. What I really wanted to talk about was her hair.

Full disclosure, I never liked the original ducktails, I don't know what it was, but when I was a kid, I couldn't get into it. Even as a cartoon loving adult, I couldn't find the shows charm, I couldn't find a real reason to give it a proper chance. One of my biggest problems with the show was Webby and her dumb girl face. It's one thing to be cute, it's another thing to be adorable, but then, there is just over-the-top, honey and lollipops, marzipan in a bowl full of gum drops and jolly rancher's sweet. That's where I draw the line. In a cartoon, I need all of the characters to have a role, not a cliché archetype. All she did was complain, Be cute, hug her doll, be cute, be talked down to buy the boys, be cute, oh and one more thing, she was being cute! Not only that, but I could hardly understand her, same with the boys, it was like listening to four Donalds for half an hour, I just couldn't do it.

When they announced that ducktails would be doing a reboot, I thought to myself, maybe I would like this new one, I proceeded with cautious optimism. The first thing I saw was Webby, sticking her head out of a moving vehicle, her eyes wide open, grinning (with no teeth because she's a fucking duck) ear to nonexistent ear, with her hair flying in the wind, full of life, full of energy, a complete juxtaposition to the character that I knew Webby to be. Usually adding a mop top to a character doesn't do much, but for Webbie, it was like a whole new character for some reason, like it was something she was missing the whole time. I suppose Webby growing those luscious locks were a symbol of the character growing herself, artists like to throw little things like that into a design of the character sometimes, so I wouldn't put it past them. From that one image I knew this one would probably be different, and I was right. It's not too often that a reboot makes me completely love a thing that I was completely indifferent to only half a year prior.

Could all this be thanks to the hair? Dose Webby Vanderquack and Shirley the Loon have something in common? The same shampoo maybe? I don't know, but if you read all this shit then congratulations, you deserve a prize, here it is:

🍡 👈. Here, it's yours, take it!

And what do you guys think about the ducktails reboot? Is it a good, is it a bad, do you like the new designs? What are your thoughts on that weird "business in the front and party in the back" thing that Webby's dress does? let me know in the comments.

Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!