I’ve done my first scanlation. This is a parody of the novel Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. It’s a difficult book, but it is rewarding enough that it is one of my favourite books of all time. So when I heard of this comic, I became very interested in reading it. And it turned out to pretty good, despite some flaws. To my surprise, it is reasonably faithful to the book.
Also, click on the images to enlarge them, the scans are pretty big.
The plot is that Donald, Fethry and Gladstone create a made-up conspiracy theory and publish it in Scrooge’s newspaper, only to discover that there is more truth to the theory than they think.
I don’t know how many will be interested in this translation. What is the overlap between fans of postmodern literature and Duck comics fans? Sometimes I feel the writer Bruno Sarda wrote this for exactly 2 people: Himself and me.
The scans are from a German 2014 re-print and come from @land-of-birds-and-comics . She pointed a masterpost of german duck scans and I used her links.
I’ve translated this from German into English, so from my third language to my second. You can understand if it is a little shaky at times, especially since I’m entirely new at this scanlation business.
I put in a few references to Monty Python, The Prisoner and Laurel and Hardy that were not in the original text.
There is also a parody of The Name of the Rose, also written by Sarda, which I will try to translate soon.
@worldwide-duckverse might be interested in this.
(via worldwide-duckverse)