An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.
Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999) - ISBN: 9781466836020