Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jan 4, 2019 12:01:18 GMT
This cover would have been cool with Scrooge holding his typical arquebus. (Typical in Italian stories.) "Rock salt arquebus", as they always precise now in the story...you know, just in case the kids were expecting someone's head blowing up in the next page...
This cover would have been cool with Scrooge holding his typical arquebus. (Typical in Italian stories.) "Rock salt arquebus", as they always precise now in the story...you know, just in case the kids were expecting someone's head blowing up in the next page...
What? Scrooge typically carries "an early type of portable gun supported on a tripod or a forked rest" in the Italian comics?
What? Scrooge typically carries "an early type of portable gun supported on a tripod or a forked rest" in the Italian comics?
Well, it's more of a rusty shotgun, really. But in both French and Italian, the word "arquebus" colloquially refers to a very old-fashioned, and just plain old, shotgun, often depicted with a trumpet-like mouth. This is something that was rendered fairly-well in the original DuckTales, though the comic Italian version usually seen is even older-looking.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jan 6, 2019 11:29:29 GMT
I do not know if it is the right name for the 'trumpet riffle', but it is the name Italian writers use. Like Scrooge would typically tell his buttler ''Battista, portami l'archibugio''.