Achille Talon: Difference between revisions

The comic book was translated for different markets in the 80's and published in English under the title ''[[Walter Melon]]'' with little success, as it was so specifically French by its main character and its language. Readers hardly understood Talon's favorite interjections, "hop !" and "bof..." which simply express positive/negative moods.

* [[Big Applesauce]]: In the album ''L'appeau d'Ephèse'' (it's a pun; "ça coûte ''la peau des fesses''" (litterallyliterally "it costs the skin of the buttocks") means "it's hugely expensive" in french). Greg lived a long time in the USA and even worked as writer for TV Shows such as ''[[The Love Boat]]''. Talon serves one of his most beautiful sentences before the "Megacash Museum" where he can't go in since it's the night: ''"I was once more forgetting that, in this retrograde country, clocks ignore that in good French it's actually tomorrow morning."''

* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: In order to fly to Polynesia on short notice and on a shoestring in ''Le Grain de la folie'', Lefuneste and Major Lafrime hire a veteran German [[WW 1]] pilot, who gets them there onboardon board his vintage triplane. Amazingly, the obsolete aircraft handily wins a dogfight against a modern jet fighter on the way.

* [[Doing inIn the Wizard]]: The album ''L'esprit d'Eloi'' (A pun on Montesquieu's "The spirit of the laws"). There is no ghost, of course.

* [[Expy]]: Saint-Ogan's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190613221339/http://www.bedetheque.com/Couvertures/MonsieurPoche2_17082005.jpg Monsieur Poche]''.

* [[French Maid]]: Subverted; Virgule's maid Hécatombe is a huge woman built like a professionnalprofessional wrestler and [[Popeye (comic strip)|anchor arm tattoos]]... in the requisite maid outfit.

* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Talon and his neighbourneighbor Hilarion Lefuneste. Always calls him ''cuistre'' (prig) but they're inseparable. Especially when they're fighting each other.

** At one point, a crook wants to nail Achille in between the eyes with his gun. He aims, they have a silent faceoffface-off... and he breaks down in tears.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: In ''La Main du serpent'', Achille Talon correctly surmises that the other survivors of the submarine wreck were scattered by the storm. In fact, as another character observes, there was no storm. But Achille Talon replies that in adventure stories, there is ''always'' a storm--andstorm—and so there was one.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Rue de Manconne" seems perfectly innocent until you readdread it out loud, at which point it translates to "(she's) fuckin' stupid".

* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: Inverted. Lefuneste once claimed to have embraced the hippyhippie counterculture and offered Achille Talon a spliff. Achille angrily turned it down at first, but smoked it when he thought nobody was looking, and had a [[Mushroom Samba|hallucinatory trip]]. At which point Lefuneste, back to his normal self, told him it was a joke and the "spliff" contained no mood-altering substance whatsoever--[[Fake High|Achille's high was entirely self-induced.]]

* [[Overly Polite Pals]]: In one comic, both continuously insist the other go first, but here the stalemate goes on until they're both late, leading to a Big Ball of Violence. Amusingly, this came about after Achille read a book on etiquette, and it turns out the other guy was the author.

[[Category:FrancoComic BelgianBooks Comicsof the 1960s]]