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Aprender español LXVIII: Carnada 067

Cuando todo lo demás fracasa, acude a la televisión.

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PAGE 67 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Claudia sitting alone in the ship’s galley with a cup of coffee, which she is staring at pensively.

CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (1): After a few days’ standoff, Claudia agrees to speak with us, but not with the ship’s crew.

Translation (1): Después de unos días de estancamiento, Claudia acepta hablar con nosotros, pero no con la tripulación del barco.

Panel 2: Closer-in on Claudia.

Claudia (2): The problem is that they’re right. Aside from their two volunteers, I’m the only one they can access in time. There are other women, but they don’t know the right protocols.

Translation (2): El problema es que tienen razón. Aparte de sus dos voluntarias, soy la única con la que pueden contar a tiempo. Hay otras mujeres, pero no conocen los protocolos correctos.

Panel 3: Claudia looking to one side, holding her cup of coffee between her two hands.

Claudia (3): It won’t be other people’s fuckups that anyone will remember. What everyone will remember will be that bitch who wouldn’t play ball and disappointed a very rich man.

Translation (3): Nadie no recordará el fracaso de otras personas. Todos recordarán a una perra que no quiso cooperar y decepcionó a un hombre muy rico.

Panel 4: Claudia looking down into her coffee cup.

Claudia (4): Like it or not, that’s how people will see it.

Translation (4): Nos guste o no, así es como lo verá la gente.

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A nice kinky whipping

This cover (September 1933) is pretty classic Margaret Brundage: an almost-nude in a kinky situation probably at best remotely related to the contents of the stories beneath the cover. Our distressed damsel has the long flowing locks Brundage was so fond of, possibly because they were so useful in providing a bit of just-barely-there strategic covering so as to keep nosy postal inspectors and local district attorneys at bay.

The interior has a not-bad illustration of Edmond Hamilton’s story “The Horror on the Asteroid,” done by J.M. Wilcox (1895-1958). Also classic stuff, spaceman using spacegun to defend space damsel against space monster.

“He fired without consciously willing to do so.”

Wilcox would achieve a measure of artistic fame within a few months as the first artist to draw Conan the Barbarian, also in the pages of Weird Tales. I shall try to dig that up.

An uncredited and indeed pretty much unnoticed small illustration at the end of the story suggests perhaps things worked out better between monster and damsel than one might have predicted.

This issue of Weird Tales is available for reading and download at the Internet Archive.

Aprender español LXVII: Carnada 066

¿Qué hay de la ciencia? ¿No amas la ciencia?

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PAGE 66 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Turpentine facing the door, speaking to it.

Turpentine (1): At this point, the expedition simply cannot succeed without you. There just isn’t anyone else with the right…attributes, and it will be nineteen more years before anyone has another chance.

Translation (1): En este punto, la expedición simplemente no puede tener éxito sin ti. No hay nadie más con los… atributos correctos, y pasarán diecinueve años antes de que alguien tenga otra oportunidad.

Panel 2: Turpentine still facing the door, with his hands up in a pleading gesture.

Turpentine (2): In recognition of what we’re asking of you, the species will be named after you. Gynophagos honeywoodiae. How does that sound?

Comment (2): The Linnean “species name” Gynophagos honeywoodiae should be left in the original Latin, unless it is the custom among professional biologists using your target language to render it otherwise.

Translation (2): En reconocimiento de lo que te estamos pidiendo, la especie llevará tu nombre. Gynophagos honeywoodiae. ¿Qué te parece eso?

Panel 3: Claudia still on her bunk. This is another “surveillance video” panel. In this panel Claudia’s eyes are in an angry squint The precise nature of this squint should be drawn as distinctively as possible and noted (thus as the “Angry Squint”) as it will reappear in another context below.

Claudia (3): Fuck off!

Comment (3): “Fuck off” is a vulgar and rude way in English to tell someone to go away, but one perhaps appropriate under these circumstances.

Translation (3): ¡Vete a la mierda!

SUBTITLE (4): Internal surveillance video.

Translation (4): Video de vigilancia interna.

Panel 4: Turpentine addressing the door.

Turpentine (5): Think about it.

Translation (5): Piénsalo.

Turpentine (6): Please.

Translation (6): Por favor.

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Beware the Asylum: Publication

I am pleased to announce that the “silent” ero-horror graphic novelette Beware the Asylum is now available in a couple of media. In addition to being available on its publication page, you can now read it below in a nifty slider:

Beware the Asylum is also now available, I hope for the long run, at its own page at the Internet Archive, whence you can download it in a high-resolution CBZ archive, or in a variety of other formats, or read it in the Archive’s native viewer.

An unusual feature of the Archive page is you can also download a licenses and captions file, which has new individual page captions in English, Arabic, Bengali, German, Esperanto, Persian, Filipino, French, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesia, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Chinese (Simplified Characters) and Chinese (Traditional Characters). I might or might not build that out as a feature on this site (it’s fun but time consuming), but now that it’s in the archive, it can really be something for future anthropologists — probably robots or aliens after we humans have managed to do ourselves in — to puzzle over.

Aprender español LXVI: Carnada 065

Turpentine intenta persuadir a la enojada Claudia.

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PAGE 65 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Turpentine, walking down a narrow ship’s corridor.

CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (1): Professor Turpentine, as expedition leader, attempts to deal with the crisis that has arisen.

Translation (1): El profesor Turpentine, como jefe de la expedición, intenta lidiar con la crisis que ha surgido.

Panel 2: Turpentine knocking on cabin door in the corridor.

SFX – TURPENTINE KNOCKING (2): Knock, knock.

Translation (2): Toc, toc.

Turpentine (3): Dr. Honeywood, can we speak?

Translation (3): Dra. Honeywood, ¿podemos hablar?

Panel 3: Turpentine talking to the door.

Turpentine (4): Listen, I’ve talked with the expedition sponsor via satellite phone. He understands how critical you’ve become to the success of this expedition, and he has said he’s willing to raise the charitable donation to five million dollars if you can…cooperate.

Translation (4): Mira, he hablado con el patrocinador de la expedición por teléfono satelital. Entiende lo importante que te has vuelto para el éxito de esta expedición y dijo que está dispuesto a aumentar la donación caritativa a cinco millones de dólares si puedes… cooperar.

Panel 4: View of Claudia sitting on her bunk in her cabin. Her arms angrily folded over her chest, her face set. This panel is “surveillance video” so it should have a somewhat vaguer, grainer look to it than most panels.

CAPTION – TURPENTINE SPEAKING THROUGH THE DOOR (5): You can do a lot of good in the world with five million dollars, Claudia.

Translation (5): Puedes hacer mucho bien en el mundo con cinco millones de dólares, Claudia.

SUBTITLE (6): Internal surveillance video.

Translation (6): Video de vigilancia interna.

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If pro wrestling had undead nearly-naked women in it, I might watch

I mean, does anyone really wear anything like that and if so, why do they bother? But we shouldn’t really bother asking, as it’s another Margaret Brundage cover on a Weird Tales issue (January 1936) that as one can see by its cover (Paul Ernst, C.L. Moore, Robert E. Howard, August W. Derleth) was a cavalcade of pulp author stars. There is also interior art for the story which (I guess) Brundage did the cover, in this case done by Vincent Napoli (1907-1981), an artist who seems to have gotten his professional start painting WPA murals and found his way into pulp.

“I hated myself for having let her make a slave of me.”

This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.

Aprender español LXV: Carnada 064

Claudia sale furiosa.

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PAGE 64 (Four panels)

Panel 1: View of Claudia again, realization sinking in.

Claudia (1): No.

Translation (1): No.

Panel 2: Claudia in the act of standing up, her face enraged.

Claudia (2): No fucking way, do you understand?

Comment (2): “Fucking” in Claudia’s dialog line here shouldn’t be translated literally. In colloquial English, used in the way Claudia is using it here, it serves purely as an intensifier (generally used by someone who is angry) to stress the point.

Translation (2): De ninguna puta manera, ¿entienden?

Panel 3: Claudia in the midst of storming past Turpentine out of the room. Turpentine has reached out to grab her sleeve, and Claudia has a hand raised to swat it away.

Turpentine (3): Claudia, please.

Translation (3): Claudia, por favor.

Claudia (4): Let go of me!

Translation (4): ¡Suéltame!

Panel 4: View of Hiram, sitting back in his chair and rolling his eyes.

Hiram (5): Women!

Translation (5): ¡Mujeres tenían que ser!

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