If you can figure out the why of this panel without knowing the context first, I salute you

Well, I’m guessing from the hat, Donald’s somewhere in India and attempting to obtain some kidnapped tigers for someone (off panel) and as a result the situation has gotten out of hand and someone is looking to shoot Donald with a buckshot shotgun.

I can guess that Donald is in mortal danger because of the way the background looks like a fried egg, which I can only guess resembles an cannibalized abortion to a duck.

How close am I?

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Well, if weemadarthur is right, there’s little point in my guessing… but I had assumed that Donald was being asked to throw himself to the defense of a tiger about to be shot or somesuch. Alternately, there were a bunch of picky eater tigers declining to eat a side of venison, and someone asked Donald to eat the bit with the buckshot in it, so to encourage the tigers without eating a part of it they’d want.

Just a comic guess, of course.

Also, Zenrage: technically fried eggs wouldn’t be cannibalized abortions, because the eggs we eat haven’t been fertilized. If you get a fertilized egg, if I recall correctly, there are streaks of blood through it, which tends to remove from the appeal slightly. No, to a duck, a fried egg is eating chicken menstruation. Take that as you will.

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That can’t be Donald Duck. I understand what he’s saying.

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weemadarthur is correct and I didn’t even need to check my big book o’ Donald Duck cartoons to be sure.

In the next page he still refuses to eat buckshot, instead rushing to a water pipe to drink several pounds’ worth of water, not knowing it’s actually a propane valve, causing him to float. If this startling display of physics aggravates you, try to remember the talking duck is, for some reason, now in India.

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Does it involve pie?

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Didn’t this comic also involve Huey, Dewey, and Louie blowing square bubbles? Or was that elsewhere in the book?

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