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Alright! New thread! Which means I can get started on my uploads! So! As was detailed in brief in the OP, I am the person behind uploading Blueberry - a long-running Belgian Western serial that started back in the 60s by scriptwriter Jean-Michel Charlier and the reknown French comic artist Jean Giruad AKA Gir AKA Mbius - whose work in other projects is stunning, and is no different in this. Now, I'm not simply doing this for your enjoyment, ladies, gentlemen and NBs all - my circumstances mean that I have these comics not in the original French, but in translated Swedish which I am translating for you all here into English. This does mean that I have editorial biases and - while I try to keep the original meaning as close as I can to the Swedish translation - there are times where I feel the need to step in and add my own touch. Most of the time this involves having the language of the Native American peoples not be the stereotypical 'Me-talk-in-third-person-like-caveman', however there have been times where I have altered the dialogue - though I do make note of that in my notes when it happens, in hopes that my reasoning makes sense to you, my readers. Also, please note that my scans are in black-and-white. This is for ease on my part to sharpen scans and to translate dialogue, but also to provide an impetus to any readers to check out and purchase actual copies from an accredited source where you can enjoy the art in full, and by God is it a treat. Also, to address the elephant in the room - this is a comic on the American West from Belgium back in the day, so it is within the 'racist but not as racist as you might expect' category e.g. researching aspects of the Native peoples of America, but then applying them wholesale to EVERY different tribe in the U.S. If something egregious comes up, I'll be sure to acknowledge it/spoil it as I feel is appropriate, and if anyone who is more qualified to comment on things that are mentioned in the comic, I ask you, please do not hold back - I would welcome it. Also, the comics' grasp on actual U.S. history is... I would say as close as Hal Foster's Prince Valiant is on the history of Europe and the Middle East in the early Dark Ages, i.e. not very. It shall make for some very amusing stories in the future, I can assure you. So! The story so far: We began in post-bellum Arizona, where we are quickly introduced to the eponymous hero/occasional anti-hero who is shown as a rogue, but a general force for good and for justice. Michael Steven Blueberry is a cavalry officer, lieutenant class, veteran of the civil war who joined the Union forces despite being a Georgian by birth, stationed to Fort Navajo where, due to bigoted zealotry, a full-scale war breaks out between the U.S. government and the Apache and Navajo peoples. These costly hostilities are defused thanks to the hard work of Blueberry, the Lt. Crow - a Native officer forced to abandon his oath to the U.S. army by the repugnant prejudice of his superiors - and the rascally prospector Jim McClure, but not without a heavy cost - for the noble Crow was betrayed and slain by the vengeful Quanah, who would accept no peace from the U.S., believing that the government would seek to impoverish and crush his people in peace and war. News of Blueberry's role in defusing tensions leads to his renown in both other Native peoples and U.S. camps, and he is hired by Union Pacific to act as a mediating envoy to the Cheyenne and Lakota peoples while the trans-continental railway is being built. Blueberry eventually discovers a conspiracy to ignite hostilities between these Native peoples and U.P. (as well as the U.S.) by the rival railway company Central Pacific through their agent, the villainous Jethro Steelfingers. Returning with Jim McClure, and along with the frontiersman 'Red' Wooley, Blueberry is eventually able to lay the conspiracy bare to all parties and bring about a tenuous cease-fire - but his efforts are in vain, for the blue-blooded, decoration-seeking and cruel General Alistair from West Point takes command and begins a massive offensive during the winter months against the Native peoples, betraying Blueberry's word and making him hated by the people he once worked so hard to cease hostilities with. The offensive eventually ends in a stalemate due to Alistair's maladministration, and Blueberry, Red and McClure live to fight another day. Now! Blueberry and McClure, assigned as marshals to a lawless town back in Arizona, are dealing with the unscrupulous Prosit Luckner who claims to have a gold mine deep in Apache territory. Dealing with betrayal from McClure, two ruthless bandits and a posse of insurgent Apache, Blueberry manages to track down Prosit and one of the bandits, Wally Blount, to the site of the mine deep in an unforgiving desert, only to find that the rumours the mine is guarded by a vengeful ghost may be more true than originally suspected...
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Sorry for the delay - my internet has been a bit spotty. In today's Blueberry: Blount and Luckner give away their position, or Blount ain't afraid of no ghost, or Blount is a man with a plan (but there ain't no canal, and thus no Panama)   
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How Wonderful! posted:I also think it was quite common to have nice leatherbound editions of Goethe's work in quite a few volumes. The thing is that unlike Shakespeare who really just wrote a bunch of plays and a healthy handful of poems, Goethe wrote A LOT OF STUFF and a lot of it is fairly dry if you're just a middle-class family trying to class up your home library a bit-- scientific inquiries, bureaucratic papers, travel journals, etc..-- there's a LOT and most of it probably sat on living room shelves untouched. I look forward to DtWoF, when you feel up to resuming it again! Your input and observations on them is also very insightful.
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In today's Blueberry: Prosit knows any good campfire needs a good ghost story as well, or Chekov's rattlesnake, or It came from that   
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riderchop posted:Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon Huh. That art looks almost exactly like the person who drew those paleontologist webcomics. Whatever happened to them, I wonder?
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Green Intern posted:I laughed at a Luann comic today. I can't help but hear this to the tune of Johnny Cash's 'Hurt'. (Yes, I know it doesn't scan) Nostalgamus posted:For the people in this thread who are scanning old comic books: What do you use? I am a poor idiot who uses their camera phone and an external light and thus put myself through a lot more bother than is necessary. Alas, I have no room for a scanner in my current place. Pyroclastic posted:Which comics? The Junior That was the one I was thinking of, ta. Samovar fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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Jan 5, 2022 08:25
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In today's Blueberry: Blount is not a good tracker, or All together now!, or Hey... I'm beginning to think this Prosit fellow might not be a very nice person...  
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CommonShore posted:This has been the best Blueberry story so far I'm real glad you're liking it!
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Jan 5, 2022 18:32
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I don't know if Tauhid ever read this thread (I know he was around during the time in which the forum existence was up in the air), but Crabgrass is very good.
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In today's Blueberry: Ah, Wally - we barely knew ye, ya dead bastard, or Count yourself lucky, Luckner - other people had to go to surface of the moon to find a monolith like that, or What does Prosit see?! Tune in, next time, for -  
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Jan 7, 2022 11:54
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Esplanade posted:What would you do with the power of the comics syndicate behind you? I would have more adventure comics that draw the audiences attention to the barbarism of colonial attitudes.
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In today's Blueberry: So, I'm almost 100% certain that Moebius' art here is based off of the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde national park - although that's in Colorado, not Arizona. I cannot go into the history that it deserves, so I would invite people who are interested to do their own research - but I'll say this. The representation of it is very close to the real thing, or Luckner gets heat-stroke, or Great, NOW he's gonna become the Batman on top of all this poo poo?!  
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Jan 8, 2022 10:17
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I would wish to see more of proto-Ballard Street. Also, lol Wilbur.
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Bless you, How Wonderful. Blonderful. Selachian posted:
Btw, do you think it would be possible to write the captions of these in the future?
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Synthbuttrange posted:
Magnifique.
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In today's Blueberry: Kivas are an incredibly old Native American construction, as in pre-European-contact old. What their original purpose is... well, it's hard to say - but it does seem to be true that they were considered holy sites from the people who re-discovered them later, or Luckner has the ghost cornered..., or... DOES HE?!  
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Synthbuttrange posted:lmao at poor Gawain At least it'd be light...?
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Jan 11, 2022 14:08
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In today's Bluberry: B-AAARGHH!, or Oh, uh... Ich kan spreuch ein... bisschen Deutch..., or Prosit's in trouble...  
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Cichlidae posted:I laughed my rear end off at that last panel! Was that original, or did you take some liberties in translation? Would that it were literal, but I'm afraid I have taken liberties there. I'm sorry, I know it's not nice, but I figured it was small enough. The original translation is just him asking the horse why he's so worked up. At times when I change the dialogue substantially, I will endeavour to make note of it and give my reasoning in my blurbs. Samovar fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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Strontium posted:Dark Side of the Horse Please don't doxx me
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^^^my thoughts exactly. Oom knows how to pose
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Jan 13, 2022 14:22
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In today's Blueberry: Prosit's not out of it yet!, or Trickshot!, or John McClane nods approvingly  
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In today's Blueberry: Cheers to Prosit!, or McClure is the inspiration for the first mini-boss in Inscryption, or Holy exposition, Batman!  
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BigglesSWE posted:Ballard Street Why must you constantly make fun of my life, Ballard Street.
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In today's Blueberry: I've, uh, got some bad news for you on that penultimate panel, Luckner, or Prosit was not born in a barn, or Just when I thought I couldn't dislike him more, Prosit commits cultural genocide to boot.  
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In today's extended Blueberry: How will Prosit get out of this predicament?! Spoiler: He does, or Living big and easy in the Big Easy, or How will Prosit get out of THIS predicament?! Spoiler: He doesn't    And so ends our latest adventure! And I shall be starting the next adventure at the usual time, but I want to add... I dunno, a warning? I know I said it when the new thread started, but I wish to re-iterate and to expand - the next adventure is set most of the time in Mexico... and it's visual representation of Mexican people is far from ideal, imho - going into flat-out racism at one point (albeit not with a person from Mexico). This means there will be a lot more Spanish, to boot - which I will have to use Google Translate for, so I'm guessing it won't be Mexican-Spanish accurate. It's also... a lot meaner? Blueberry was never an old-fashioned white-hat Western, but this next adventure becomes Noir-esque, both in story and in tone. Maybe I am being overly-cautious - but this thread is generally for light enjoyment, so I'd much rather cover my bases. So join me next time, won't you? In the adventure of Chihuahua Pearl, where we say: JEEZ LADY! BACK OFF! Haven't you ever heard of personal space?! 
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dismas posted:She has very nice teeth for the setting and in spite of a smoking habit Yeah... McClure is, in several ways, more realistic than some folk in this setting.
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Tiggum posted:Is the guy in the Flash t-shirt supposed to be someone specific or is the Flash just uncharacteristically uncomfortable to meet a fan? Or is there something else going on that I'm missing entirely? Flash Gordon.
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Jan 19, 2022 10:15
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Some Guy TT posted:If a person reading this thread didn't get it I can't imagine how any random newspaper reader was supposed to. Uh... I do not know why someone thought that new avatar would be LESS... arresting than you previous one.
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Jan 19, 2022 11:10
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Tiggum posted:What? I don't read Flash Gordon, but I don't recall him looking like that?
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Doomykins posted:"Hungary is extremely proud of their Academy of Sciences. I think they might also be taking the piss out of The Sorbonne and Istanbul University specifically" I'm pretty sure it supposed to be about that Hungarian dance with the bottle of wine balanced on the dancers' heads (which I learned about from Jucika in the first place). It really was a wonderful comic. That rare thing of both horny and wholesome - something that I would ordinarily say was not possible.
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I thought we had seen those strips before...
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Strontium posted:Dark Side of the Horse I like it. I LIKE it!
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Mikl posted:Sorry, I'm having a terrible time. January started off in the worst way possible. Please take care, Mikl.
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Great news re. the Bootsie scans. In today's Blueberry: Uh... I don't think it was EVER SOP for the U.S. cavalry to send out one-man patrols..., or Blueberry tries (and fails) at diplomacy, or Well! I'm sure we'll never bump into that man ever again   
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His Divine Shadow posted:In sweden they like to call casseroles puddings sometimes. They're mad. Mad it may be in etymology, but Kålpudding is not to be sneezed at.
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In today's Blueberry: Wile E. Coyote nods in sympathy, or "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds", or Blueberry's in trouble... again  
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Jan 22, 2022 07:50
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Doomykins posted:Yeah, I really disliked a lot of the pure porn strips where there's not even an attempt at a punchline, it's just "look at what a slut this hot woman is!" It's amazing how fast they bleed over into incel anger. It's so disheartening.
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Doomykins posted:Tomorrow will be the last of the fanart and then I'll start over from the beginning. OK, these are quite nice. In today's Blueberry: Blueberry is bad with money, or Blueberry puts his foot in his mouth, as usual, or Who here likes history?!   
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