THEFEUDS

This page objectively describes the ongoing feuds between Donald Duck and his neighbour Jones. Now, our Donald has been battling it out with many neighbours throughout Carl Barks' stories. Some had no mentioned names, some had different names, and two different-looking characters were even named Jones (they appear in WDCS034 and U$06). But here we are only concerned with the severe feuds with Donald's antagonistic neighbour, the one and only - the overpowering and ruthless - J. Jones.

It is always uncertain who starts the brawls. Some of the conflicts seem to have started long before the actions we are witnessing in the stories, and it is obvious that the feuds are going to continue long after the last panels.
Is there a winner in these eternal battles? Well, the easy answer to that question would be, that there are no winners in a feud. Still, it is possible to make a simple 'score list' showing who is doing what to the other. But then it is up to you to judge if a winner emerges from the smoking ruins...

WDCS038 - 1943

GOOD NEIGHBORS
Donald and Jones bury the hatchet but it is of course just a matter of time before things are back to (ab)normal.

DONALD		JONES
Inadvertently kicking a football into JJs neck.
		Accidentally throwing the football through DDs window pane.
Throws football out of the door - accidentally hitting JJs face.
		Deliberately returns football - into DDs stomach.
Fills football with ink, throws it through JJs window pane, causes major havoc.
		Fills football with scrap metal, throws it through DDs window pane, DD kicks the heavy football and hurts his foot.
Fills football with lit firecrackers, throws it towards JJs house but it explodes in mid-air causing damage to both houses.
		Hoses down DDs collection of rare books through holes in roof.
Hoses down JJs oriental rugs through holes in roof.
		Throws football through DDs window pane, bangs into DDs face.

WDCS048 - 1944

A quarrel about putty escalates into a war between Donald and neighbour Jones.

DONALD		JONES
		Throws DD into trash can. Slams garden gate in DDs face using a gate-closing lever. Sprinkles DDs face through a water squirting system.
Tries to break down garden gate with tree log. DD gets hurt. Tries again on steam-driven roller-skates. This time crashes through gate and JJs house wall causing JJ to fall over.
		Blindfolds DD and sends him along on his roller-skates. DD winds up in the city dump.
Makes a false concrete slab filled with putty in his own sidewalk. JJ falls into the pit when he tries to aid the apparently injured DD. Shovels extra putty on JJs head causing him to disappear below the surface.
		Surfaces to drag DD into the putty.

(JJ merely makes a cameo guest appearance in this story)

WDCS063 - 1945

The nephews have found a ten-dollar bill and Donald teaches them that the rightful owner should be located.

DONALD		JONES
		Throws a plant-filled vase into DDs neck.

WDCS281 - 1964

FEUD AND FAR BETWEEN
In the winter, Donald gets a new neighbour who makes himself almost invisible. Finally, Donald succeeds in revealing the identity of the elusive man. Guess who-o...

DONALD		JONES
		Blinds DD with a reflection in a mirror.
Throws can into JJs garden. Throws trash into JJs garden.
		Shoots trash back using a spring-loaded cannon.
Sneaks into JJs garden, but gets pepper-sprayed. Plowing snow into JJs garden, but JJs large snow-melting device cleans up. Stages a bad fall on the ice outside JJs house. Throws snowball into JJs neck.
		Throws special snowball laced with horse liniment and shark oil.
Tries to warp big snowball into JJs bathroom using a catapult. Is accidentally thrown through JJs window instead, landing on JJ who falls into a filled bathtub.
		Scrubs DD with sponges.
Scrubs JJ with bath brush.
Chase each other with snowballs in the garden.

WDCS289 - 1964

UNFRIENDLY ENEMIES
As usual, Donald is fighting with his neighbour. The nephews are doing their best to settle the differences.

DONALD		JONES
Bombard each other with watermelons across their common fence.
		Slings (unidentifiable) object into DDs batter causing it to smoke and smell.
Tries to punch JJ in the nose through a hole in the fence, but JJ is not present. DD has heard a recording of JJs voice, and now his fingers get caught in a mousetrap. Uses a special water hose with a drilling device that surfaces in JJs trousers and makes him soaking wet.
		Pulls the hose violently causing DD to crash against the fence.
Attaches the hose to his mechanized lawnmower causing JJ to pull in vain.
		Attaches the hose to his bigger mechanized lawnmower and pulls DD out of his bathtub. Electrifies a temporary telephone line to DD, and DD gets an electric shock.
A temporary pipe line is rigged up for JJ to speak in, but DD fires a gun into it causing JJ to turn momentarily deaf.
		Shoots an arrow carrying a bag of pepper through the pipe.
Back to square one - the watermelon fight.

Fineart - 1981

SILENT NIGHT
Donald is walking around singing carols before Christmas but his voice is not very well liked. Especially not by neighbour Jones...

DONALD		JONES
Quacks carols to JJ.
		Throws different objects at DD who insists on continuing his carolling. Pushes DDs concertina down his throat. Shoots a brick attached to an arrow into DDs stomach.
Uses megaphone to sing for JJ.
		Jumps DD and forces alum down his throat causing his beak to shrink thus stopping the carolling.
Secretly installs a number of loudspeakers in JJs house. Gets the nephews to sing into the corresponding microphone. Drives JJ crazy while trying to find the hidden loudspeakers.
		Offers DD some mouthwater that clears up his voice. Then tortured to sing for a deaf neighbour living across a wide ravine by using an electric cattle prod.