Thursday, March 3, 2011

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failure.

I gotta admit, I have a breakdown of nonsense.

worse because it's not me that happens more in life instead.

But hey, there's times when it comes to not telling the same business.

Faque I'm gonna do as we din reviews medames leafing in halls Waiting too bad I'll offer you a questionnaire.

No, I do not copy on Clarence because, first, second worst it is Thursday ...

there's no of second.

Good.

1) Now, here, a couple or not, you can be anyone. So, why? Who's that?

2) The most absurd thing happened to you in your life?

3) When you listen to secretly Dinner almost perfect and you skip the commentary that is usually worse than ben you better, what is the menu that you develop in your head?

4) The day you want to relive forever (if such a thing exists)?

5) You start in music, what's the name your project / band is and what style you play?

6) Do you have an esoteric side and if so, how it manifests?

7) You can resurrect any celebrity time for a coffee. Who you choose?

8) A word that represents you?

9) or cassis Cassis (pronouncing the "s" at the end)?

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Médiacop: reality shows and serial murders

The television of the future than the worst forecasts in Médiacop , including the complete output here is a few days.

Norman Barron is a hero of reality TV. There is also a captain in a company private police. Its investigations are broadcast live and made him an extremely popular personality. Of course, nothing less "real" than reality show. Some scenes are repeated, the scenery changed, the players handled. The producer, skilled a stage director of the moment, may even directly influence events by discreetly giving directions to a Barron became a master of improvisation and dramatic.
Driven by success and money, Barron and production will stop at nothing more, accumulating lies and abuses. Even the couple's separation Barron was hidden from the public, Norman and his wife, reduced to the rank of porn actress, content to play the game some nights before the cameras.
In this murky world and empty, while focusing on appearance, the young Oshii Feal, sucking at the academy Police will disembark. After the death of Sheeta, colleague and Barron's tenure, it will indeed be named to replace him. First dazzled by the luxury and fame, she will quickly become disillusioned by discovering reality. One that does not sell. That we do not show. Especially not to the general public.

The back cover gives the tone right away: yesterday, the TV was a trash can. Today , it is a dump. Tomorrow she will be a landfill. Médiacop, our reality show, going after tomorrow ...
hard to make it clearer.
But some explanations are first required on the origin of this series. A bit like Flywire at Les Humanos, it is a complete reprint which, for the trouble, change the format but also as the former Reality Show becoming Médiacop . The five original albums assembled here are scripted by Jean-David Morvan . The author has very many comics to his credit ( Wake , HK , Nomad but Spirou et Fantasio ) and has even attacked Wolverine a few years ago, with Saudade , one of the few stories to keep afloat in the calamitous collection Marvel Transatlantic (admittedly mostly leaded by Faraci ).
The drawings are signed Francis Porcel and are very successful. Detailed and very beautiful scenery, varied and effective plans, plus some charming characters, Oshii in mind.

Now back to the bottom of this story mixing thriller and SF. The condemnation of television and its derivatives, entirely justified, is particularly well supplied. Virtually nothing is spared to the characters in cynicism and cold handling. Barron also appears at first very unpleasant (or insensitive) before finally winning in humanity in contact with his new teammate. It is true that the players in reality television are also often the first victims, which is also the case here. Of course we asked about the thematic power of the gaze and desire to always offer more eye jaded and full of sex and violence, pointing to the worst of the industries that either, that of immediacy and reflection in the very short term.
Amidst this bleak picture is brighter place take a detective story, Oshii and Barron are actually on the trail of a serial killer who mutilates his victims horribly. The resolution is a bit far-fetched (and sights set on Asimov) but can then get a program concept even worse. This second part (this is actually two distinct arcs) is somewhat less exciting, even if it implements is even more immoral and indecent. Narration in particular, left in the hands of the producer who explains the action more than it takes place, supported the comments but probably a little lose in dramatic intensity.

The record, however, generally very positive and low price. It also noted the presence of a small gallery hosting some illustrations and research. The addition of the original albums covers could be more but this omission is not dramatic.

Sound sentencing practices that are less and less of fiction but also a really good story served by engaging characters and a world as beautiful and fascinating graphically by the dark it hides.
Highly recommended.

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The Ice Princess, by Camilla Läckberg

Right now, I only read books that are part of shared reading to come, what prevents me from publishing reviews now ... Frustrating! So to show you that I do forget it, I give you a review I posted on the blog Jess . It is time that I repatriated here, especially as I will report at one time or another of the novels that follow it ...


Synopsis:

Erica Falck, Swedish writer of thirty-five years, returns in the peaceful village where she grew up to settle the estate of his deceased parents brutally. During her stay, she stumbles upon the body of her childhood friend Alexandra, slashed wrists in the bathtub, taking in the ice. Mingled with the investigation in spite of herself, she quickly convinced that Alexandra did not suicide. While managing a personal situation complicated by the loss of his parents, the reunion with his past and a love story emerging, Erica tries to unravel the mysteries of the life of Alexandra. What is the dark secret that her friend seemed cut from the outside world? Whence came his unexpected relationship with an artist's village alcoholic? Who was his unknown lover? And of course: why was killed this young woman so perfect?


My opinion: After

Millennium 1: men who dislike women , here again a Swedish detective novel. The latter, which according to the publisher has been very successful in his country, is a fairly good representative of the genre. The story is well constructed, expanding the mystery over the pages and revealing the keys to the plot in dribs and drabs, so keep an element of surprise until the very end. The main characters are sympathetic, their relatively simple and well described, and the secondary characters are sufficiently developed to give them a consistency in the story. The setting, a small village by the sea, provides a slightly intimate charm that adds to the whole.

Regarding the style, along with some red in the translation, it seemed a bit flat, nothing too disturbing, but nothing exceptional either. If the author of Millennium was able to pass up a French narrative style full of personal details innocuous here Camilla Läckberg simply put language in the service of history. But as the story is worth it by itself, it's not really a problem.

Still, it lacks this thriller a little something to be at the height of contemporary novels that I have been most marked. The characters do not have the glamor of Lisbeth Salander created by Stieg Larsson or the Commissioner Adamsberg Fred Vargas, the plot lacks the vitality to keep us in suspense on each line as the best novels of Dan Brown; the mystery is not obscure enough to tempt us to go take a look guilty to the last pages, provided that knew so well create Agatha Christie. If reading this nice little romance can have a good time, I had no difficulty in filing for a few days to devote myself to other activities more important - something I have not always done ...

In summary, this is not the discovery of the century, but a work sympathetic to bed without fuss. I would give him, say, a 7 / 10 , and I do not hesitate to advise you. It seems that the author wrote four crime novels featuring the same heroine, I plan to get their hands on the occasion!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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impromptu.

I just received an email.

On a site where you could put pictures on which I had posted a few, there is an eternity for this.

I do not even have remembered.
I am told that the site will close, that I must recover my photos, etc..

It even offers me a button Download already linked to my.

I click.

There's a picture of me and my ex.

It felt like an eternity that I was not dropped on our common photos.

A picture of happiness on a trip there, even if bin Y'avait Affairs wrong. ..

But just enough that I remember that I miss a close like that.

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Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine

Following the new series about Weaver and clawed in the Spider-Man # 134 released today . The Vulture and Rhino are also party.

We first Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine a new title que nous avions pu découvrir le mois dernier. Jason Aaron ( Scalped , Black Panther , Wolverine : Weapon X ) est au scénario, Adam Kubert s'occupe des dessins.
Alors que les deux héros tentent de s'opposer au braquage d'une banque, ils se retrouvent expédiés dans le passé, à une époque reculée où Logan devient le leader d'un peuple d'hommes-singes alors que Parker se morfond en solitaire et tente de trouver un moyen de sauver ce monde de la chute imminente d'un astéroïde. Un début rather surprising and quite dark then, playing lots of conflicting reports and the contrast between the two protagonists.
This second chapter plunges this time in a heavily modified future where mankind has been exterminated and that a new danger threatens the descendants of the famous ape-men (the latter having survived thanks to the valuable advice of Wolves). Living Planet gun that uses ammunition based Force Phoenix, mechanical dinosaur, the environment is rather strange and disturbing story loses the side of the first boards to move towards a disproportion that is not always easy to handle.
It is however still a bit early to really have an opinion on this arc settled.

It then passes three episodes from Amazing Spider-Man . The first two are written by Mark Waid ( Ruse , Fatal ) & Tom Peyer and drawn by Paul Azaceta . Spidey faces to the Vulture, the latter having escaped from the Raft with Electro. Beware though, it is not the Vulture "Classic" (Adrian Toomes), but a new version, played by Jimmy Natale, a henchman of the mafia that his bosses have turned into a monster. His powers are also somewhat different, it is especially capable of generating an acid that ... spit at the head of his enemies. Ah, a small rise in gastric juice as an offensive weapon, he was thinking.
short, our great piaf blames J. Jonah Jameson (also Mayor of New York) he holds responsible for his condition. Parker is of course to rescue his boss, but he will be thanked in a way very strange. A story finally classic but not unpleasant. Graphically, we may note a small problem with Parker is proving repeatedly swollen and almost unrecognizable (perhaps also because of the inking seems quite thick).

The last episode is a one-shot featuring the confrontation between the old Rhino, repentant and ready to begin a new life, and his successor, determined to defeat him to "earn" his title. Scenario Joe Kelly, Max Fiumara drawings . A plot actually quite simple but relatively moving (a little, for short, in the tradition of the miniseries where the Rhino became highly intelligent and even discovered, by inference, the actual identity of the weaver).
Visually, the impression of power and brute strength of the Rhino is very well made and this time Parker finds a more usual, but what are his fingers, strangely elongated (and flat, it looks like Reed), who give an impression of extreme fragility and even a short side of precious. Nothing too serious, but hard to pass by without noticing.

A batch average, with many nice moments that small defects.

ps: at the end of the review, Grasse talk of a new series Spider-Girl , I do not know if it will be published by Panini, according his comments, it seems so, but it's not really explicit. To see ... the idea is certainly not displease me.

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ear worm.

Ear Worm: Melody, air or song that retains too easily and that can not get rid of.

Since yesterday evening, I sing Barbie's Resto Bar Grill because of My Hat .

you what is it?

Monday, February 28, 2011

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Movie Night Discussion: "The Stranger in Me"

The association
Mama Blues 35, which informs and supports parents or prospective parents in trouble and who regularly holds coffee at Bell, an evening film discussion around the movie "Stranger and Me" on the topic of depression postnatal.
This event will take place on Monday, March 21 at 20:30 in cinema The Sévigné Cesson-Sévigné (43 rue du Muguet, such; February 1999 83 12 21).
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Jacques Dayan, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Catherine Bassereau, midwife and Helene Robert, midwife framework and coordinator of the perinatal health system, Well Being born in Ille-et-Vilaine.
Admission: 5 euros
Booking is advised to be sure of his place.
Reservation by mail mamanblues35@gmail.com until Friday, March 18 included, indicating name and number of people. Send your payment by check payable to "The Cinema Sevigne" at the following address: Mama Blues 35 - Patis Tatelin-35700 RENNES.
For the curious, some information Further below:
ABROAD IN ME
Original title: Das Fremde in mir
Year: 2008
Length: 99 min
Director: Emily Atef
Interpretation: Suzanne Wolff, Johann von Bülow Maren Kroymann, Hans Diehl, Judith Engel
SYNOPSIS
"Rebecca and Julian waiting in joy their first child. But just born babies, Rebecca feels inexplicable fear and helplessness in the presence of this tiny being dependent her. She sank into a severe depression and realizes she has become a threat to its Child. "
THE PRESS
" Emily Atef admirably avoids the pitfalls of film theory, focusing on the mother and obstacle course to learn to accept her illness, to dominate, and finally to cherish his child ... In the heart of this film, and applied austere in appearance, lies a tremendous faith in mankind and its ability to Trascender "(FIRST ***).
" The movie Emily Atef says both the descent into hell and rebirth of a family ... The adventure is filmed accurate results around a successful actress who arouse compassion despite the role difficult it embodies. This beautiful movie is an opportunity to dramatize a topic still taboo. No doubt many women will recognize something of their experiences. "(PROFESSIONAL MIDWIFE)
" The director filmed tactfully mental and physical rejection of a young mother for her newborn. The project alternates between a subjective approach (exploration of the neuroses of the young woman) and an objective approach (the emotional impact of disconnection on the family). "(Cahiers du Cinema)
" Suzanne Wolff whose stubborn silence, pain and distress expressed concern with amazing accuracy. "(THE WORLD)

Sunday, February 27, 2011

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Spider-Man: Back in Black

A Marvel Deluxe returns this month for the period Back in Black of Weaver.

It is necessary to begin to relocate some background. These adventures take place just after the Civil War , while the civil identity of Spidey is now known to everyone and that Parker and his family are doomed to a life of fugitives. At the time, Tony Stark is still the head of SHIELD, Flash Thompson still has his legs and Aunt May, who has taken a bullet (see Spider-Man # 92 ) is to the point of death.
The episodes collected here are drawn series Sensational Spider-Man (issues # 35 to # 40) and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man ( # 17 to # 23 ). So it is no confrontation between Spidey and Kingpin (which took place in Amazing SM (see Spider-Man # 97 )).
the scenario, we find Peter David and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa . The drawing part is provided by Todd Nauck , Angel Medina, Ramon Bachs , Clayton Crain , Lee Weeks and Rick Hoberg .

We first Sensational SM . The first arc sees a strange person to engage in an experiment size on youth abducted in the street. These are inoculate a serum that gives them the same powers as the Monte-in-air but in degenerating, gradually transforms into true spiders (just a remake of The Fly , in the teletransportation less). The second story focuses on Eddie Brock (recently became Anti-Venom ), very bad shape (he is sick and has sold his symbiote auction), which is found in the same hospital as the auntie.
It was right next to an episode depicting the origins of Spider-Man and making a little reflection on his fate, his future. Rather introspective and even metaphysics. A nice pose before moving to Friendly Neighborhood SM.

In the first story, Parker teamed up with the Sand Man and tries to prove innocence the latter's father, wrongly accused of murder and threatened with execution. A little harder to follow perhaps the uninitiated, it refers particularly to double by Ben Parker and Spider-Man from 2211 (one with a funny helmet, relatively sophisticated, for those who remember) .
then continued with a more murky plot, which speaks of mystical spiders that try to reproduce using Thompson and Parker as guests (a bit like Aliens , but without the M41 and M56). For the record, Betty Brant is a fairly important role here. Finally, it concludes with an episode which a confrontation between Peter and J. Jonah Jameson ulceration have been fooled by his photographer for years. Rather well done, with some good tricks narrative found.

Overall, we here stories that leave and read with displeasure that focus both on the darker side of Peter (the dark "light" if I were spending the expression) and the spider mythology (broadly defined) that surrounds it. Nothing necessarily essential - especially as everything has been canceled - but it shows that it was entirely possible building plots that take into account the evolution of the character (his identity revealed, the fact that it is an off-the-law, his new powers ) without altering its fundamentals.

No bonuses, cons Panini has finally managed to turn the usual (stating that each contained Deluxe) of the jacket. Especially, it was still here 13 episodes, which is correct. No problem of translation, by cons (it must be something there), a new practice quite staggering: at one point, someone talks about SHIELD Text and a small inset is placed at the bottom of box. So far, everything is normal you say. Yes, but in fact the explanation of the acronym stops ... the fourth letter (!) and ends with " for details, see Internet . Basically, it means " good, we did not really want to break the ass, we've forgotten what it means to the L and D, Sort this out yourselves to find a fool who will explain it on the net ". There, he was still afraid. I almost admire ... We have really everything they did.

Deluxe A well-stocked and friendly but rather, by the choice of episodes from the series side and a complex period that ended, part of a much larger epic that new readers will find it difficult to grasp subtleties.

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3:00 AM in the snow.

I return to work during the Nuit Blanche.

I told my lift: let me corner of Rachel and St. Laurent.

And then I just walked.

for 40 minutes under the snow.

And it was beautiful.

Just beautiful and calm.

The sound of my footsteps, echo of laughter and music in bars, the muffled rolling of tires on the snow.

I walked like that until infinity ...

But my street came faster than expected.

is not serious.

It gave me time to be Zen.

For once.

Friday, February 25, 2011

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Fatal: Betrayal

Continued buggery super-heroic lead with Volume # 2 of Fatal .

The Plutonian, former protector of mankind, has become the greatest threat it has faced. Members of Paradigm trying to stop his killing spree by putting himself in search of a possible weak point, perhaps hidden in his citadel.
For its part, the bitterness and hatred Plutonian rehash too long restrained. He visits his former adoptive family whose members are visibly frightened. To prevent detection by the superman and his unusual sense, they are also more pronounced a word since his departure, condemning himself to a life of silence to protect their seeming security.
The Plutonian lonely, misunderstood, unloved ... he passed a point of no return and no longer facing the source of his resentment that in seeking to eradicate the violence.
While an old enemy of the former hero again discreetly surface, the army also gets involved and decides not to finesse in stopping all superhuman, including members of the paradigm, even for this to employ unconventional means.

After an excellent first volume , here is the rest of the series Mark Waid of (screenplay) and Peter Krause (drawing). The action is taken where we had stayed and, despite a small this summary, it is not immediately obvious in the plot go after these few months. A little history on the different characters might not have been too, just to recover more easily in the bath.
After this little time for adaptation, found pleasure in writing effective Waid. The latter reveals a little more in the past, painful, the Plutonian. One notices that, contrary that one might have thought, his first "gaffes" to go back very far. His current psychological state is not entirely due to mere lack of recognition of a growing population demanding, thereby qualifying the words and save the character complexity. Indeed difficult to stay calm and sane when you fear your own family or that you can not sleep with your girlfriend without making him take risks with important physical. This frightening powers, but also the disadvantages that go with it, well here are put forward and contribute significantly to offset the image, often idealized, super-hero.

The six episodes in this collection are followed by a short story (six plates) derived from Irredeemable Special # 1. Waid it done this time teamed with Howard Chaykin old and has a super-criminal, Max Damage, seeking redemption since he survived the carnage of Sky City. An explanatory page lets put this story in the chronology of events and even describes the powers of the individual.
The book ends with a small gallery of covers alternatives.

A title that retains all its interest and to reveal a darker side of super-heroic myth.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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scenario. (ADD)

This morning, I enter the bus.

Background: the bus is crowded, it's the 24 around 9:15 in the morning, made at the height of Park Lafontaine So who picked up the world from east of the island.

The People try to settle, we are all made bread is not clear.
And here a young man sitting on the bench removable back (one for wheelchairs and strollers) is pointing the finger by a native English speaker who said

You see the sign with the stroller over the top of your head? Well, it is also for you young man!

The guy is super uncomfortable, gets up and makes a look of apology to the woman with the stroller that is also uncomfortable, because obviously she had not for use this option.

Then, Anglo is for the woman who sat on that bench and begins to bawl and say that it counts for her as well, it might settle.

The case is that the woman has in hand a huge bag that contains a massage chair, because she goes to work.
The guy starts to say, practically shouting and denigrating the clear, it is his responsibility to NOT take the bus with this kind of object, it should leave room for people on rush hour. She should leave early, before rush hour, to avoid being in the path. She could even think about paying for a taxi.

The woman defended herself obviously, but there was great unease.

And as is not the first time I hear such comments (once compared to a stroller, and it is the driver himself who told the mom not to move at rush hour ), I wonder what is your opinion.

ADDITION: I forgot to tell you what happened next.

I was facing the woman with the package and the bus braked sharply and j 'as I landed on the bag lady.

I am apologetic and she looked at me and smiled and said gently:

No problem, it's a massage chair is padded everywhere! You can t'accoter above as you like!

I said phew thank you, I wanted to break your things!

And she But no, really no problem is made for it, move it!
And it looks, smiling, bus stops and I wish him a good day.

And there it was stronger me and landing of the subway, I followed the guy.

Once at its height, I looked and I said

You know that this woman carries a massage chair, it gives care to people then?

The guy looks at me bewildered and said:

It did not report! She has no right to bring his bag like that, it is organized differently, it takes a taxi, bought a car. Here, she went ahead to not disturb people on rush hour!

And me Who tells you she is not a party in advance?

He stops for a moment, off again: Anyway, the bus is for get people quickly from one point to another, no matter to drag the big stuff like that, it should not take the bus this time!

Me: Ok , so it also counts for the strollers, then?

The guy who seems to have too much of what he says and rubs his head frantically:
It depends! But rush hour, it serves to bring the world quickly, worse he must live together and understand that and it should not bring his bag ...

Etc.., Etc..

I repeat again the same case.

Me: me, what I understand is that it is your opinion sir, to point line.

Him: No, that's how! It must be like that, it can not board the bus!

Me: No, it's YOUR opinion. Things are not necessarily as clear cut as that.

And he continues, but I leave the dock to board the subway.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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Judge Dredd: Mandroid

is now eyeing the side of Mega-City One with Judge Dredd : Mandroid , published by Sun.

Sergeant Nate Slaughterhouse is a veteran of the Space Corps. He fought on hostile planets and delivered dozens of fighting, until one day, seriously injured, it is recovered half dead on the battlefield. Placed in cryogenic suspension, he owes his life as cybernetic implants that now constitute the bulk of his body.
The psychological shock is intense. Demobilized from Nate, with his wife and son for Mega-City One. Here, the family found an apartment block in a filthy, plagued by crime. They are short of money, without jobs, without any psychological help. Slaughterhouse thought to have lived through difficult times, but it's hell in the megalopolis that is going to know the worst. And when he finally has nothing to lose, he will do what he always does: killing.
Unfortunately for this brave victim of such circumstances, the law in Mega-City One, is made by the Judges. Dredd, who took a liking to a veteran, if indeed he might feel in will find himself obliged to hunt him down.
They should have the same side, life has decided otherwise ...

branch U.S. Comics Sun is not at his first attempt on the famous Judge Dredd, from the equally famous British weekly 2000 AD. Last year, the publisher had already published a collection of short stories, whose content and assorted looks very particular could just discard it.
Here, these reserves are not expected to be as it is one long story , written by John Wagner and illustrated by Kev Walker (who officiated at Marvel Zombies ), Simon Coleby and Carl Critchlow . Graphically, the result is efficient, especially for the first part (in fact this volume contains two different arcs forming a whole), with a style and dark shadows and contrasts that are able to transcribe both the violence of the city's destruction of its inhabitants. The second part is more conventional and less inspired but still quite honest.
The story is particularly harsh and uncompromising, the events occurring with a cold logic that enhances the horror and inevitability. Especially, Dredd must face here, not a monster or a hardened criminal but a man who fundamentally good, in desperation, will depart from the Act only reference to a judge who will nevertheless be a little less cynical than usual (initially at least). What could have been a banal story of revenge is finally enhanced by a moral questioning interesting and, above all, a relentless increase dramatically, giving the impression that the characters can only undergo a crushing and inhuman consequences.

You'll understand that it is not very gay. The book reveals disturbing, muscular without being simplistic and sometimes even moving. It also has the advantage of presenting the world of Dredd (based combat armor, blocks glaucous also immense and strong sense of desolation) in a coherent and accessible.
Technically, nothing special to report. T good, hardcover and (very) small gallery of covers.

From SF brutal and scary.
To avoid night of blues.



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Adaptations of Comics to Film: The Boomerang Effect

recent years, the adaptations of comics to the movies come thick and fast pace, with the inverse of the quality that she deserves to be more.
Petit point on the perverse effects of poorly conceived business practice.

Seen on TV! "
We've all seen this teaser on a bunch of products for mass consumption, but do you know what Affriolé even a commercial?
Yes, the small Seen at the Cinema " tape that can actually or mentally commodities it is responsible.
It is necessary at the beginning of this article, (re) make a point on the business aspect of comics (or any literary work elsewhere). Yes, the books must be sold, yes, it is normal to take into account the economic aspect of a work, no money, it's not dirty.
By cons, no, cultural products can not sell like Bolino or Kinder Bueno, and bring the artistic aspect of a work remains the surest way, precisely, do not sell well.

But, first things top ...
The porous side of the various fields of entertainment is not new. Already in the 80s and 90s, often spent a license movies to video games, sometimes making detours through the comics, novels and role playing. And at that time (not so far anyway), what characterized the implementation of a work from one medium to another, it was often the poor quality of the result.
Even then, a Rambo on the Amstrad was pitiful compared to Ikari Warriors (veterans will appreciate this example prehistoric!). It was found that the reverse process was equally true a few years later, with the movie adaptation of ... Mario Bros. (for the idea of adapting to the cinema a platform game with a mustached plumber jumping on mushrooms and spends his time in pipes, or should really be incredibly optimistic or totally unconscious) and TV series as Mortal Kombat.
short, it was not obvious, with few exceptions, such as Call of Cthulhu , declination in the RPG and the eponymous new pantheon created by Lovecraft. Except that an RPG, it's not supposed to affect millions people. And we come to the first brake structural adaptations night cinema: the audience.

When a comic has sold 100,000 copies in the U.S. nowadays is a huge publishing success. If we get 10,000 sales in France for a work distributed in bookstores, is also a success. In other words, in figures, books (or comics specifically) do not address the same audience as the film. On the big screen, audiences in the millions, and revenues in the tens or hundreds of millions. A Superman or Spider-Man can not rely solely on Readers of comics to fill the rooms and their goals. Instead, we must address the widest possible audience.
We come to the frightening concept of lowest common denominator. That specialize in television and film are accustomed to regard as suitable for everyone, unlike the "segmenting." Again, to be honest, there are exceptions and modifications as more successful than others. Watchmen , for example, do not betray the spirit of the original story while adding a modern dimension and perhaps a greater fluidity than the comic (by getting rid of famous scenes from pirates), but for success, how many dismal failures?
Daredevil, Hulk , Ghost Rider, all examples of frightful turds, bad damn fast and curly. Consider the
Spider-Man , considered, to my great astonishment, as a success. It is typically the kind of silly movies and soft knee, without any creativity or personal touch, which are supposed to apply to everyone. So to anyone. And besides, it's directed by Sam Raimi, a guy who can make masterpieces like A Simple Plan or stuff much fun as hell until . His version of Spider-Man, by comparison, seems very bland. I'm going a bit far, but it's hard to call a gadget otherwise sanitized, drowned in boredom and lack of inspiration. The third installment (oddly generally the least appreciated) starts to offer some interesting things, but at this rate, it would have in Raimi makes 50 so that we have a chance not to fall asleep before the end . Or come out happy and satisfied to have seen a "real" Spidey.

Well, I will not continue this way, if you enjoyed some adjustments, fine, you probably your reasons. For cons, I think that it is now, after several years of decline, interest in the effect of "boomerang" of these changes on our comics.
The first of these effects, the worst that present both the U.S. and France, this false impression that the viewer of a film could potentially become the future readers of the comic book franchise . It's like if you consider that the guy who drinks wine at the restaurant will perhaps participate in the harvest next year . Me that a little booze, frankly, I can tell you that it is unlikely.
Seriously, go back on this infinitely perverse. Publishers in the broadest sense of the term, consider that when the film adaptation of a franchise out, the chances of selling are greatly increased.
This principle of communicating vessels are actually in a sense (readers of comics will often see the film adaptations) but not the other (the viewer does not rush lambda on BD). How
be sure? For a very simple comparison.
The film adaptation has never been so numerous and drain millions of viewers in North America and Europe. However, in recent years, sales figures, with regard to comics, are rather sharply downward. Not only is the comic industry in a few decades, lost many readers, but the wave of "promotion" in the film is not contained. Consider some recent figures
. In May 2007, Captain America: Fallen Son flows 170,000 copies in the U.S. (a good figure today, but nothing compared to sales in previous decades). In June of that year, World War Hulk also reached 170 000, New Avengers is 160 000 ...
Three years later, not only DC Comics truste first places, but what counts! The first
titles (Batman ) in November 2010, reaching over 100 000 copies. In December 2010, no one reaches 90 000. Even and Green Lantern Brightest Day are well below 80 000.
The decrease is constant and, when up there, it is mainly due to important events related to comics ( the death of Captain America for example, or Blackest Night at DC ), not the massive influx of regulars cinemas.

These famous "new players" that the editors hope and cajole to the extreme, it never did see the trace. Or very anecdotal. Yet, these same editors have taken the party today, to approach them. To people who do not exist. Or at least, who do not read comics.
Some examples?
few years ago, Ultimate Spider-Man is specifically created to attract younger readers who are unfamiliar with the past (loaded) of the hero. This time, it serves . Fresh, pleasant to read, the early years Bendis and Bagley are making a run exceptionally well in length. And it does not affect the series history of the Monte-in-air. This will be the only good idea unfortunately.
Obviously, this concept does not fit on the long term (as, inevitably, after a few years, the Ultimate universe also generates its continuity and thus supposed disincentives to purchase). We will therefore Ultimatum , an event winded and questionable value, at the base supposed to wipe the slate clean. In fact, it is the quality that will quickly escape from the range. Always
about Weaver, Quesada will implement the controversial One More Day throwing again the hero's past to the winds, while, however, the character had matured and interest. Those who read the series grumble, those who do not read ... not read it yet.
Such missteps will multiply to almost become a norm. Until recently, the series Iron Man Legacy (without interest) is launched by Marvel to suit the hypothetical readers from the viewing of Iron Man II Favreau. The same argument is echoed by Panini, who in his editorials, never fails to praise the supposed qualities of a comic adapted film.

Gain exposure and media coverage, it, nobody can blame the publishers. It is even more logical and sensible. But destroying the significant progress of the inspired authors to address a lack of the public is not particularly a good idea. On the other side of the Atlantic, it's a stupid idea, and when it leads us, she has not won in intelligence. For the intro
Losers example, the henchmen paniniens find nothing better than not talking almost only ... Film! This is stupid because if you read the intro, is that it has already bought the book. So no need to surround it with a pseudo halo-based prestigious Hollywood lights. Yet at Panini, we continue to praise the films in the comics for ... sell these comics (even if only in Kick Ass example). This does not detract from the content but surreptitiously installs the idea that comics would only be the poor relation of artistic universe where the cinema is king. Paper, knighted by adaptation, therefore accede to the supposed literary aristocracy.
One can even question some journals that regularly come in at number # 1 while series contained therein has not changed and still evolving. Funnier still, the quest for "new player" is so ingrained in the genes that publishers Panini (which is never the last when it comes to anything) goes even publish in some collections, several numbers # 1 of the same series but with different content. For Daredevil in Marvel Deluxe example, Panini will release a first number # 1 (containing episodes signed Smith, Quesada and Mack), then they will release a ... second number # 1 (for the same series of the same character) with the start of the run of Bendis. Oh, sure, a number # 1 is reassuring. For fans by
cons is really absurd and famous for newcomers, it's a trap con (put a "1" on a book has never contributed to its contents more accessible) . Yet while the interest of a shared universe with a continuity of several decades is its wealth, it seems that publishers regularly tempted to believe (those who do not read what they publish) everything is as accessible as the latest film insipid they saw on the big screen.


In the end, what the film adaptations of comics have such real effects?
Do they make fun of comics readers? Often I am tempted to say no.
Do they attract new readers? No, they are not even able to stop the bleeding now.
Do they highlight the characters? Well ... er ... honestly ... Daredevil / Ben Affleck, Spidey / Tobey Maguire ... good, everything is said (to be honest, Robert Downey Jr. Tony Stark is embodying a pleasant surprise, it must be exceptions).
But ultimately, they have no positive effects could royally fuck it, we, selfish players and avid readers. Except that regularly, it is taken on the face of the perverse binz: Series launched quickly and badly written, runs the whole balanced with nettles, a general nervousness, a constant back for the VF, the choices based on criteria staggering, and finally, an impression that we still do not care a bit about our mouths. Or even that it is not for us, which is still an achievement!

Basically, bad films, it is usual, environmental practices but are they also influenced comics who, at the base, were good but sometimes end up looking like their distant cousins animated. Ie they focus on announcement effects, silly action, special effects, superlatives and stalled narrative.
It works sometimes. On an audience not looking, very young or novice, but what about what we've really come to look in the comics? What happens to these historical players, adults, the faithful who have always accompanied the footsteps of their heroes? (And also filled the pockets of their authors and publishers?)
What was nice to find in the marvelverse recent years, it was exciting sagas, less Manichean conflict than in the past, deep characters, subtle relationships, drama, controversy, or painful moments of magic. Much risk taking, artistic advances that fail most often to the cinema on the pretext that only warm, not spicy soup may be suitable for everyone. Also provided boomerang effect, in turn, are stripped of some series which made their appeal, although, fortunately, it is not (yet) a general rule. Each medium has

its qualities and defects. And of course everyone is free to have their preferences. However, the effects of fashion, who regularly put the ease (or "comer") on a pedestal are harmful in the long term and, especially, suggest that the medium or technology take precedence over content and creativity which, of course, is heresy and, incidentally, the best way of stopping any series.
The belief is to believe that a work must be simplified and standardized in order to sell "plus" is an absurdity. And focus on the number at the expense of quality is a mistake, even for securities mainstream. Simply because what can grow in number and it's the quality. Or
artistic integrity. Or know-how, call it what you want. Stripping
a work does not make it more attractive, except to think that the vacuum is attractive, it simply makes it poorer. This poverty is bearable level adjustments, which are nothing more than derivatives, but it becomes painful when it spread to the heart of this universe of paper that we thought - correctly - that richer and today is threatened by a race to the bottom which is likely to precipitate his loss. Or at least remove him, year after year after flap flap, which did its magic and pleasure of our readers.



ps: on a related topic I would point out an article in the last Brazil, interested in comics transposed onto the big screen and in which I was pleased to speak a little. FYI, Jeremy Manesse was also questioned on the subject.
Available on newsstands.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Orthodic Shoes For Club Foot

The Unwritten - Between the Lines

decidedly February is a month full of quality publications, since this is the first volume of The Unwritten , fantasy eyeing the metaphysics of writing.

Tommy Taylor is the main character in a series of successful novels which depicts a young magician and has created a craze in the world, surpassing even the popular media when Harry Potter. Fans are eagerly awaiting a hypothetical 14th book, the author have disappeared long ago.
Tom Taylor, he is the son of the writer and the supposed inspiration for the character. It connects festivals and book signings, a success surfing proxy that allows him to eke out a living but also has its bad sides, like those lunatics who, from time to time, take it for what it really is not: a sorcerer.
One day, a meeting will change Tom's life. An unknown challenges in the audience and reveals that a photo is supposed to represent the child is in fact a fake. It also suggests that the past of the young man is oddly formed voids and disturbing elements. It does not take more to unleash the wrath of fans of the series, ulcerated have conducted boat by what might be an imposter. Others believe illuminated explain the mysterious past of Tom in that it would actually be born with the novels and coming straight lines lying on the paper by its creator.
Tom Taylor will quickly see that in the dark, very dangerous characters are very interested in words and their power ...

Ah 'Vertigo' ... a label that does not lie so much, in general, the series that rep ... hours , thin, no, I have made this intro Saturday (see American Vampire ). That said, the context is somewhat the same: an original series, well thought, the rich and fascinating topic. The subject is however very different, but let us first look at a creative team. The script, Mike Carey ( Faker , Neverwhere , God save the Queen , X-Men Origins ), a specialist in fantasy worlds and strange. Drawings, Peter Gross. Well, obviously, this is not the look that is the main attraction of this series. Nothing horrible, just a mat style, no soul (except for a few performances, such as the "world on the other side of the door," impressive and inspiring). To make a comparison, it looks a little like Buckingham (the designer, not the palace). But nothing insurmountable, especially since the theme offers plenty to look at these first five episodes.

Carey talks about the power of words and stories, the magic that manipulate Storytellers and scribbling of all sorts, a vision which I am particularly sensitive because I share a very long time and continues to amaze me to this incredible power that is to feel remote, to a perfect stranger, emotions that we will generate by simply filling in an ordinary letter paper. This is the very definition of magic. Not one of the taverns, the real, which, by signs and symbols to influence the physical world and the mood of our fellow men.
The author goes so patiently build a clever back-and-forth between fiction and the real world, each chapter opens on a few pages adventures of Tommy Taylor before returning to the woes of the real Tom Taylor. The line between hero paper and flesh will fade quickly, however, and from that moment on, the doors of the Imagination will be opened on broad philosophical questions. The reflection is of course on the impact of fiction on life, but it goes further and questions about what makes a human being a "reality" in the eyes of others. Thus, without pictures, without social security number, without birth certificates or registrations in a vague administrative register, is it possible to demonstrate to others his own existence? What is the evidence that we reject or, conversely, to hold credible, hardly used, without any real reflection on their importance?
Worse - for signs of the times - the power of information, even if erroneous, and its transformation into mass hatred and veneration by a crowd as terrifying as versatile, makes one wonder about our reflexes and the vagaries of the over-communication. For, in the era of the Net and the "buzz", relevance is buried under a flood of sordid trash, quickly uttered, not assumed, but particularly painful for that is the target. That is indeed the word of an "author" in the broadest sense of the term, when the natural filter of editing can no longer separate the wheat from the chaff?
Mike Carey brings everything to even begin to answer since, ultimately, even manipulated, the crowds still react very strongly compared to the writings, the Paper, noble medium par excellence and remains not only just as promising in the era of pixels, but almost reassuring.

Caution, do not let cool for my extrapolations. The Unwritten is a series that is easily affordable, with action, suspense, real bad and a main character very endearing. By cons, obviously, when one looks a bit like writing in general, it is a pure delight as it feels to navigate a sea of old and familiar that it feels good to come across some old Captains face etched by the spray. O)
The literary references are multiple, it is Mary Shelley to Conan Doyle, to Oscar Wilde, George Orwell and Rudyard Kipling same the last chapter which is also enshrined. Nice reminder of what the British were able to provide Letters.
Finally, it was right to preface a (very smart one, unlike the last Rex Mundi ) by Bill Willingham, author of Fables , which will evoke Karic but also Guard finally come to a very interesting concept of unification of the fantastic genres.
short, very good. And that translates Manesse, So no surprises.

A great idea can lead us to consider the immense opportunities that proves to be an intelligent and practical bridge between pop culture and literature more "institutional".
Not to be missed.