• charokol@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I’ve never heard of Eega Beeva

    Apparently:

    Eega Beeva was a central character in the American newspaper Disney comic strips, for nearly three years. He was Mickey Mouse’s main sidekick during this period, effectively replacing Goofy, whose appearances became few and far between. This lasted until July 1950, when Eega abruptly returned to his home in the future. Walsh’s stories are often wildly inconsistent in themselves as to what Eega Beeva’s attributes and back story are, as pointed out in the editorial columns in The Floyd Gottfredson Library. During his first story “The Man of Tomorrow”, Goofy declares that Eega is only a hallucinatory apparition because he casts no shadow, when in fact an earlier panel in the story showed Eega’s shadow. In Eega’s farewell appearance, he refers to his family as “the Beeva family”. As he departs into the cave where Mickey first met him, he implies that his family live in there are eagerly awaiting his homecoming. This contradicts his first story, where “Beeva” is a name Mickey made up for him, and Eega’s family were not yet to be born for another 400 or more years.