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a picture of a defiant-looking Scrooge in ragged clothes, carrying a bag of gold ore on his back, walking past shady-looking saloons and gambling dens.
As a kid I always assumed he was just made up for the Disney version of A Christmas Carol (which I was exposed to via an, er, "novelisation" in mostly picture book form) and then got confused when I saw him used in other contexts. Though I never saw or heard of DuckTales growing up; for some reason they way I saw TV growing up seemed to include one part of a stable of cartoons without the other. For example, TaleSpin yes DuckTales no; Spider-Man yes X-Men no, and so on.Lad at work is the biggest PicsouMag fan, so I had to explain to him why the character has, to him, a weird name in the originals, and why it would be immediately identifiable as a character trait for any English speaker.
Lad at work is the biggest PicsouMag fan, so I had to explain to him why the character has, to him, a weird name in the originals, and why it would be immediately identifiable as a character trait for any English speaker.
Also, I'd be interested in knowing whether you have read Lucky Luke's Le Klondike, featuring Soapy Smith, and if not, do pick it up! @Alex Richards knows it, as I was leading him through the serried ranks of BDs in the Fnac Les Halles when I stopped in front of it and helped a couple settle on which Lucky Lukes to buy. It's also a rare one in that it has a recurring character who is not the Daltons or Rantanplan, but Waldo Badminton, archetypal English aristocrat, from a much earlier album (how much earlier? Goscinny was alive and penned it) Le Pied-Tendre.
As previously mentioned, I have that 1986 charity compilation of just about every comic in the Western world which introduced me to a lot of European comics (notably, it includes the entirety of The Black Island and got me into Tintin). That one includes a Lucky Luke story where the joke is basically that surely some of the Oregon Trail pioneers must have got fed up halfway and just set up shop in the middle of one of the flyover states, and he ends up having to help them both across a river and then back again in the same day.There must be five stories where Lucky Luke actually drives cattle, at best. The one that immediately springs to mind is Le Juge, where he meets Roy Bean, and he gets his herd confiscated within the first few pages and spends the rest of the album trying to get it back. It's mostly an exploration of the American West.
The English title is "Perilous Passage".Do you have a name for it?
Puts me in mind of La Caravane, but this one they actually go all the way to the Pacific.
The English title is "Perilous Passage".
It's fascinating reading these articles, because I never read any Disney comics (or many comics at all) as a child, so my knowledge of the Ducks comes from reading the Dutch Donald Duck booklets (they're very popular in the Netherlands, such that you can find lots of them in almost every newsagent). As a result, I don't know most of the English names, only the Dutch ones: Dagobert Duck (Scrooge); Kwik, Kwek and Kwak (the nephews); Katrien (Donald's sort-of-girlfriend); Guus Geluk (the lucky cousin); etc.
(Now, mathematically speaking, the figure of a billion dollars would seem to indicate that Scrooge as a general rule imposes an interest rate of just under 32% per annum, which in turn means that it probably was for the better that Scrooge did not go into the banking business, as he’d never have gotten any customers charging those kinds of fees, but again, I digress.)