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Category Archives: FANTASTIC ADVENTURES
Cool trips into the multiverse
Movie blockbusters have been moving into an ouroboros-like postmodern entropy for a while, from Ready Player One and the LEGO franchise to Space Jam: A New Legacy and Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, not to mention the whole MCU meta-series … Continue reading
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Tagged Casanova, Christian Ward, Cris Peter, Daniel Clowes, Dustin Harvin, Fábio Moon, Felipe Sobreiro, Gabriel Bá, Infinite Vacation, Jeff Powell, Matt Fraction, Motherlands, movies, Nick Spencer, Pete Woods, Rachel Stott, science fiction, Simon Bowland, Simon Spurrier, Stephen Byrne
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If you like The Hudsucker Proxy…
For their fifth film, Joel and Ethan Coen went back to the slapstick tone and rhythm of Raising Arizona, once again channeling the Looney Tunes, only this time around blended with the flavor of old Hollywood screwball comedies about big … Continue reading
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Tagged Coen brothers, movies, politics, Sam Raimi, science fiction, Will Eisner
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If you like Raising Arizona…
Like I mentioned last month, this year I’m going over the Coen brothers’ amazing body of work and recommending further films and comics for fans of each of their masterpieces. This time around, let’s focus on their outlandish follow-up to … Continue reading
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Tagged Coen brothers, Marshall Dillon, movies, Nick Spencer, Steve Lieber, The Fix
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Spotlight on The Adventures of Tintin – part 2
If you just look at the artwork in The Adventures of Tintin, it’s hard to deny the series’ ethnocentrism, since Hergé’s drawings – as was usual at the time – tap on recognizable stereotypes. If you look closely at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob de Moor, Cold War, Hergé, movies, politics, science fiction, Tintin
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Spotlight on The Adventures of Tintin – part 1
Something I would like to do more this year is to write about Eurocomics – especially the old Franco-Belgian bande dessinée albums that were such a huge part of my childhood. Today, let’s have a closer look at just a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Hergé, politics, science fiction, Tintin, World War II
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (8 November 2021)
This weekend, I too went to see Dune: Part One, Denis Villeneuve’s majestic – if largely monochromatic and, despite the heat, coldly assembled – adaptation of the first half of the first book of Frank Herbert’s heady space opera. Given … Continue reading
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Tagged Boy Commandos, Cold War, Dune, horror, Jack Kirby, Louis Cazeneuve, movies, politics, science fiction
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A couple of mind-bending novels
It’s been a while since I’ve discussed books without pictures in this blog… And since the world seems to be struggling to return to a form of normality these days, let’s have a look at a couple of remarkable novels … Continue reading
Anatomy of John Constantine Hellblazer #7-8
Throughout 2020, two comic book series consistently had a blast translating Brexit-era chauvinism into supernatural horror. One of them was Kieron Gillen’s, Dan Mora’s, and Tamra Bonvillain’s Once & Future, in which the British past – even the imaginary version … Continue reading