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Gomorrah by Matteo Garrone

Published 17 October 2008 Uncategorized 0 Comments
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In the Bible, God decides to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah for the sin of their inhabitants. In Roberto Saviano’s book and its adaptation for the screen by Matteo Garrone, the sin is responsible for destroying the city, and God is nowhere to be seen.

Gomorrah is a real-life flick: its shaky hand-held camera shows tired and craggy faces at close range, making us the first-row witnesses of a society’s implosion. The story follows six broken destinies through the filthy streets of depressing housing projects in Naples. Some of them have a  direct relation to the criminal organisation: a teenager learns that being with them equals being against innocent people, two other kids realize that they can’t be freelancers in this world, a man whose role is only to distribute money finds himself in the middle of a war between two clans… The demonstration makes even more sense when other characters with less obvious links to the Camorra (like a tailor who betrays his boss or a young professional who discovers appalling toxic waste management processes) see their life affected or destroyed by the mafia’s blind tentacles.

Garrone’s direction is probably really close to the style of the book, skinned and brutal. The movie’s point and ending are dark, uncompromising  and leave the viewer with a mixture of helplessness and hopelessness. This vision of the mob is worlds apart from the glamourous American mafia mythology built by Coppola, Scorcese or the Sopranos. Just like in David Simon’s the Wire, the individuals of Gomorrah are powerless and crushed by a dehumanized and merciless institution. Naples doesn’t seem so far from Baltimore.

Hellboy II: the Golden Army

Published 28 August 2008 Cinema , In English 0 Comments
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The 00s action cinema had a before Dark Knight, when any presentable comic adaptation would fill geeks with joy. Now we’re in the after DK, even the right after, when any new comic adaptation is compared with the new (and maybe for a long time to come) reference in the genre.

After the wonders of The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: the Golden Army feels like we’re back to a normal and dull Hollywoodland: Ron Perlman returns as Hellboy to fight a bad Prince from a far far away country who wants to take the earth back from the humans who stole it from his people after blablabla.

This pretty conventional story gives birth to a few interesting scenes like a troll market under NY or the beautiful CGI intro tale, when we see the war between humans and elves through the eyes of Hellboy as a child. Apart from these two scenes and a few nice ideas, the rest… we know too well.

No one can say that director Guillermo Del Toro is lazy, or is not a virtuoso. As Expected the Hellboy sequel tastes like a sophisticated eye candy. All monsters and creatures are particularly beautiful and Del Toro uses special effects with a clever restraint. The Golden Army itself is visually fantastic as all costumes and sets. Pan’s Labyrinth and even the Blade franchise were no lucky break: Guillermo Del Toro stands as of the most interesting film makers of the last years and the movie definitely deserves to be seen for the pleasure of the eyes.

This said Hellboy II’s main problem lies within the story and moreover the characters: Hellboy and his mates have some funny lines but lack the three-dimension that made the DK unforgettable. Hellboy has a pregnant girlfriend, his fishman friend loves the cute princess, but nobody seems to believe in it and in spite of a funny scene when the two monster buddies sing cheesy love songs while emptying beers, you can’t forget that it’s just a bunch of guys wearing costumes in front of a camera. One scene when the hero is wondering if he should kill or not a monster that is the last of his kind could have started an interesting questioning on whether the humans deserve Hellboy’s and other mutants’ help. Could have.

Now that the ultimate super hero movie has been done, maybe it’s time for Hollywood to move on and have some talented people writing and directing something really new.

Wall-E by Andrew Stanton

Published 1 August 2008 Cinema , In English 0 Comments
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Oh Boy, what a movie week. If Dark Knight is so far the best movie I saw in 2008, Pixar’s Wall-E is probably not far behind.

I was kind of disappointed by Cars two years ago, and by Ratatouille last year. In their defense motors and food are certainly less appealing to me than topics like super heroes or science-fiction.

Science-fiction: that’s precisely what Wall-E is about, in a very pure way. Like many of the best SF stories, Wall-E takes place in a more or less near future but is obviously talking about our present society by firstly pointing its deliberate ecological suicide (sounds a bit like Shyalmalan’s The Happening) . The movie starts with amazing and beautiful shots on what one could think are skyscrapers, but are in fact massive but ordered piles of garbage. In the first part of the movie, years of human history are summed up, but without a word being spoken. The Pixar crew subtly uses advertising posters and the city’s signposting to explain to us how the human race fled Earth in spaceships after being overwhelmed by garbage. These first silent minutes are a jewel.

Later Wall-E encounters the remains of a space-drifting humanity. Once again the film cleverly mirrors our society: people are enslaved by machines, computers and automation to a point that makes them almost inhuman.

Of course the visual experience of Wall-E matches its clever content. Animation, character design and textures are as always exceptionally beautiful, which one can’t be surprised by knowing these guys.

More than its hilarious gags, its amusing references to 2001: a space odyssey or its cute robotic love story, I’ll remember Wall-E for its SF relevancy, that should hopefully give birth to a new generation of 4 year-old SF Geeks.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Published 2 June 2008 Cinema , In English 0 Comments
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Sometimes you’re not sure if the movie was bad, or if the problem comes from you.


As always with new Spielberg movies, I was full of expectations. Indy 4 was going to be an thrilling adventure that would use modern 3-D techniques to give us a classic adrenaline shot, but from an interesting angle.

The best idea is to set the movie in a 50s cold war/witch hunt atmosphere, with the nuclear threat in the background. The introduction has the best scene of the whole movie in the Nevada desert, when Indy visits a very peculiar little town. As always with the Spielberg machine, the costumes and sets are excellent work and Janusz Kaminski offers nice cinematography. But that’s the least we expect from them.

Giving Indy a son was not bad idea, but it was written and executed poorly: their relationship is close to inexistant, especially if compared to the one between Indiana Jones and his father in the third episode. One would like to believe that Karen Allen has a bad memory thought only by mistake that the character played by Shia Labeuf could be Indy’s son. This guy is simply empty and dull.

The movie looks like a minimum service, as if everybody wanted to do as little as possible. The scenes seems to come one after another as if the movie was an addition of action clips, with no backbone. Every single cliché and foreseeable reference is there: a shot on the lost ark, a snake, the hat, the whip…The only thing that is completely missing is the magic of the previous films. Indy’s old and tired and nothing in this movie was worth to come back for him.

To be fair, I must admit it might come from me too: I’m not 8 anymore, and I will never see Indiana Jones with 8-year-old eyes ever again. Sniff.

2 good comics read last week

Published 3 April 2008 In English , comics 0 Comments
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Transhuman #1 by Jonathan Hickman and (Image comics)

transhuman1_c1.jpg What if Huxley’s Brave new world took place in today’s aggressive market economy and capital ventures? That’s the angle Jonathan Hickman chose for Transhuman. This first issue takes us through a documentary presenting the protagonists of a story that hasn’t begun yet. Hickman’s characters are less talkative than in Pax Romana or the Nightly news, but his itchy-direct-but-not-too-first-degree-society-criticizing style is still there.

All-Star Superman 10 by Grant Morisson and Frank Quitely (DC comics)

This is definitely one of the best super-heroes comics available these days.8513_400x600.jpg Morisson pictures Superman as a blue but not resigned dreamer who has only one year to live after having been exposed to too much solar radiations (thank you Lex Luthor). Quitely’s art is as always superb and matches Morisson’s poetic stories. Jim Grant’s digital coloring also adds to the melancholic mood of this great take on the Man of Steel that will unfortunately be completed with issue 12.

Nothing in the cinema

Published 2 April 2008 Cinema , In English 0 Comments
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When there’s no new cool film to see in the cinema, there are still tons of old films to see at home.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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Sometimes when looking for small gems you miss massive diamonds. I was spending my time (and my money) on an average of 4 films a week at the London festival when The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was released (it was part of the festival too). If I had known how good a film it was I would have seen it instead of some bad Anime or a poor French film I saw during the Festival. Anyway, the mistake has now been fixed. The assassination… is a western that doesn’t have much to do with dawn duels and saloon brawls, but more with thoughtful cowboys and their changing emotions. It tells of the evolution of Robert Ford’s feelings of admiration frustration and jealousy towards Jesse James. I really liked Casey Affleck in Steve Buscemi’s Lonesome Jim, and he confirms here that unlike his brother he was present when the talent for acting was distributed in the Affleck family. Brad Pitt does the job as usual and the few other guys (Sam Rockwell, Paul Schneider) are very good too. On top of their great acting The assassination… is one of the most visually beautiful films I have seen lately: cinematographer Roger Deakins delivers another remarkable piece of work after No Country for Old Men.
Into the wild
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Sean Penn tells the true of story of Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch) who gave all his money to a charity and hitchhiked his way to Alaska. Like in all initiation stories, the people and places seen on the path are at least as important as the objective. It’s very rare when movies that want be touching actually are, but the combination of Penn’s direction and Hirsch’s possessed performance make it happen. Into the Wild fulfills its ambition of being a simple, beautiful and sensitive film.

Comics de la semaine

Published 28 March 2008 En Français , comics 0 Comments
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Pas grand chose à lire en nouveautés cette semaine, ça laisse donc un peu de temps pour parler de quelques trucs pas exactement récents, mais vraiment pas dégueus.

Caricature de Daniel Clowes (Fantagraphics) : si vous n’avez pas lu et vu Ghost World, vous pouvez raisonnablement vous jeter sur le comic, puis sur le film.caricature.gif

Si c’est le cas vous savez donc que Daniel Clowes est un dessinateur brillant et un écrivain probablement aussi torturé que ses personnages un peu ringards, grandes gueules, geeks, et toujours plus ou moins losers.

Caricature rassemble 9 histoires courtes qui traitent d’une Amérique mal dans sa peau à travers des souvenirs d’adolescence frustrés ou des rêves d’adultes à l’épanouissement plutôt incertain. Le sens du détail de Clowes et son goût pour les anecdotes un peu honteuses laissent flotter un parfum de vécu sur chaque nouvelle. C’est comme de la bonne littérature, mais en mieux dessiné.

Caricature est disponible en Français chez Rackham.

Preacher de Garth Ennis et Steve Dillon (Vertigo) : un jour mon pote Eric E. m’a dit : « Kim, tu devrais lire Preacher, ça te ferait vraiment marrer. » C’est seulement plusieurs années après que j’ai suivi son conseil, et comme souvent, il ne s’est pas foutu de ma gueule.

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Preacher raconte l’histoire de Jesse Custer, un prêcheur Texan qui est choisi comme vaisseau par le rejeton d’un age et d’un démon, une créature aussi puissante que le Seigneur lui-même. Ce dernier décide d’abandonner son royaume, et Custer se donne alors pour mission de le retrouver. Accompagné dans sa quête de sa blonde et d’un pote vampire, il croise le chemin de nombre de personnages géniaux tels que le saint des tueurs, ange de la mort d’inspiration Léonienne ou Arse Face, un ado qui a une tête de cul après avoir tenté de se suicider par balle comme Kurt Cobain.

Difficile de résumer Preacher en quelques mots : c’est un peu comme si les frères Coen époque Big Lebowski se maquaient avec Robert Rodriguez pour réaliser un western un peu gore et hyper poilant.

Garth Ennis en profite pour étriper ou recouvrir de vomi quelques conventions, sans jamais être (complètement) vulgaire ou tomber dans la méchanceté (trop) gratuite. Car sous ses airs un peu potache, Preacher raconte aussi et simplement l’Amérique sur un mode road-movie / western assez traditionnel, à tel point que… John Wayne est un personnage récurrent. J’ai lu à peu près la moitié de Preacher (9 volumes rassemblant chacun 6 à 8 histoires), et quand j’aurai fini, je serai probablement triste qu’il n’y en ait plus.

Preacher est disponible en Français chez Marvel Panini.

Wil Eisner’s the Spirit (DC Comics) : The Spirit est un privé qui met en scène sa mort et devient un spiritsplash.jpgflic de l’ombre qui s’occupe des criminels plus vite que la police.

Cette série qui paraissait avec le journal dans les années 40 est connue pour avoir fait avancer le schmilblick de la narration et des personnages de comics.

Le best-of que j’ai lu compile une vingtaine d’histoires très courtes (moins de 10 pages) mais extrêmement inventives. D’abord rares sont les histoires dont the Spirit est réellement le personnage central : le super-héros est un prétexte pour dresser des portraits de types victimes de problèmes sociaux ou de femmes abusives. Eisner n’hésite pas à aller vers le gore avec des histoires comme celles de clodos-zombies qui vivent dans les égouts, d’un type qui passe l’épisode à parler à des cadavres sans s’en rendre compte ou d’un brigand qui trouve chez une innocente grand-mère qu’il comptait détrousser des instruments de tortures. Plutôt osé pour l’époque.

Il explore également les possibilités de la forme comme dans un épisode tout en vue subjective à travers les deux trous des yeux d’un type ou un autre racontant en parallèle l’histoire de deux types qui échangent leur vie en cours de route.

Au-delà de son intérêt historique, The Spirit est une lecture drôle et touchante, toujours là où on ne l’attends pas. Le dessin d’Eisner est agréable et les couvertures sont presque toutes sublimes (comme celle au dessus et les deux en dessous).

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Frank Miller réalise en ce moment même une adaptation cinématographique dont il a lui-même dessiné l’affiche.

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Le Spirit est disponible en Français chez Soleil Productions.

(Black and white pictures of the Spirit were found at quickstopentertainment.com)

Juno

Published 17 March 2008 Cinema , En Français 1 Comment
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La comédie sensible, drôle et tendre est un exercice périlleux, la plupart des tentatives se soldant immanquablement par une énorme vautre dès les premières minutes.

image3739001.jpgJuno est une ado grande gueule qui fait semblant de fumer la pipe et distribue les remarques cinglantes comme Jésus distribue les pains. Juno est aussi enceinte. Plutôt que d’avorter dans une clinique peu ragoûtante, elle décide de trouver des parents adoptifs qui seront heureux de s’occuper de l’enfant.

J’avoue avoir passé un bon moment devant ce film à l’atmosphère intimisto-humouristico-sympathique assez prenante. Jason Reitman réussit à livrer une comédie romantique pas (trop) chiante, non pas grâce au scénario oscarisé, mais plutôt grâce aux acteurs.

Il trouve en la personne d’Ellen Page la déesse de son film, qui débite de son joli petit minois insanités et insultes avec une légèreté et un aplomb presque trop matures. Cet adorable petit monstre est entouré d’autres acteurs dignes de ce nom comme Michael Cera, l’ado timide, J K Simmons, le père compréhensif, et le couple de parents adoptifs : Jason Bateman est plutôt bon en mec qui refuse de grandir et Jennifer Gardner est carrément parfaite en bourgeoise rigide obsédée par la maternité.

Quelques petites fautes de carre empêchent cependant Juno d’être un vraie réussite. Même si le personnage est adorable et justifie le film à elle seule, elle le traverse sans une égratignure et on aimerait la voir un peu plus sans son masque. Et puis bien sûr il y a la leçon sur le passage à l’âge adulte qui a un peu de mal à passer, mais ça aurait pu être bien pire.

Comics de la semaine 15 mars 2008

Published 17 March 2008 En Français , comics 0 Comments
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Buffy the vampire slayer Season 8 #12 par Drew Goddard et Josh Jeanty (Dark Horse)

15484.jpgJ’en vois qui rigolent au fond de la salle. Et pourtant, Buffy le comics par Josh Whedon est sans arrêt cité sur toutes de sortes de blogs et de sites sérieux, et il paraîtrait même que c’est bien. Etonnant pour un truc que j’ai toujours considéré comme une série plutôt moyenne.

Après avoir hésité j’ai enfin donné sa chance à Buffy. Résultat plutôt décevant : le comic est à peu de chose près au même niveau que la série. Va comprendre.

Gravel #1 par Warren Ellis et Raulo Caceres (Avatar press)

2110888830_529dfed5fc.jpgSuite des aventures du sorcier militaire véner d’Ellis. Rien d’extravagant dans ce numéro, si ce n’est la présence d’un reine mère lézaroïde géante qui a 6 nichons. Va comprendre.

All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder #9 par Frank Miller et Jim Lee (DC Comics)

8868_400x600.jpg Je prends cette série au #9 et débarque donc en plein milieu d’un arc dans lequel Batman et Green Lantern sont prêt à se foutre sur la gueule. Sauf que c’est finalement un Robin pré-pubère (12 ans, va finir par avoir des ennuis Batman…) qui explose littéralement Green Lantern, et manque de le tuer dans un combat très bien dessiné, car probablement très bien écrit. Batman intube le malheureux, et s’ensuit une réflexion croisée portée par l’écriture tranchante et sèche de Miller : prise de conscience de ses pulsion meurtrières et effroi pour Petit Scarabé, et questionnement sur son droit à entraîner un enfant dans la noirceur Batmanesque pour Maître Bruce. Chouette, je viens de lire une sacrée bonne bande dessinée.

The Punisher #55 par Garth Ennis et Goran Parlov (Marvel)

Frank Castel aka le Punisher est un personnage fascinant, un justicier facho dans la plus pure tradition Charlespun055.jpg Bronsonienne du terme.

Dans les mains de Garth Ennis, c’est du petit lait. L’auteur de Preacher a un don pour donner vie à des personnages durs et flegmatiques, qui vous feraient presque peur, et qui finissent par vous faire marrer (comme dan sa série culte Preacher).

Punisher #55 est le premier volet d’un nouvel arc. Des méchants militaires hauts placés veulent éliminer Frank et prévoient de lui envoyer des soldats de l’Armée américaine parce qu’il ne pourra décemment pas les tuer sans passer pour un traître à la nation. Mis à part pendant l’intro, une discussion entre Nick Fury et Castle (est un de ces moments dont je parle plus haut), il ne se passe pas grand chose. A suivre.

Screamland #1 par Harold Sipe et Hector Casanova (Image)

screamland1-1.jpgPremier comic d’Harold Sipe, Screamland s’appuie sur une idée plutôt marrante : Frankestein n’est pas un mythe, mais un acteur bien réel qui joue son propre rôle. Dépressif et alcoolique depuis l’avènement de la 3D, il est relancé par son agent qui lui trouve un rôle dans une adaptation de manga avec ses potes Dracula, le Loup-Garou et la Momie.

Harold Sipe pose les premières pierres d’un univers nostalgique des films de monstre des années 30, qui promet une vision décapante du cinéma et de l’envers de son décor.

Comic Book Comics #1 par Fred Van Lente et Ryan Dunlavey (Evil Twin Comics)

L’histoire des comics se devait d’être racontée sous forme de bande dessinée. De la fin du XIXème aux années 40, Lente etcbc1cover.jpg Dunlavey s’y collent et reviennent en vrac sur la guerre Fleischer - Disney, la naissance de Superman, les débuts de Jack Kirby… En plus des faits, Comic Book Comics utilise la forme du medium pour illustrer son propos : l’apparition des cases ou les innovations dans la mise en page sont directement illustrées. Le tout est instructif et très ludique, dans la veine d’un Scott McCloud.

Locke and Key 2 par Joe Hill et Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)

Je l’ai déjà dit et je le répète, le perso (ou l’objet) en vernis sélectif sur la couverture de ce comics est magnifique. Dommage que l’intérieur ne soit pas au même niveau. Je n’ai pas d’a priori contre les enfants traumatisés par l’assassinat de leur père(j’adore Bruce Wayne par exemple). Mais après deux numéros de Locke & Key, force est de s’avouer que l’histoire est chiante et qu’il ne faudra pas acheter le #3, même si la couv sera probablement sublime. Putain de marketing.

Comics of the week, 5th of March

Published 11 March 2008 In English , comics 0 Comments
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Logan #1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Eduardo Risso (Marvel)

logan001.jpgThe best love stories are the ones that end badly. That’s obviously the plan that Vaughan has in mind for Logan aka Wolverine, without the mask. The first of this 3-issue mini-series sets the background: in Japan during WWII Logan escapes from a prison and he seems to have more things in common with a young local girl who offers him help than with the American soldier he escaped with.

Eduardo Risso’s art accompanies this story perfectly, a story which promises to be a good read about choosing sides, jealousy and of course impossible love. Vaughan finishes the issue with a beefy but efficient cliff-hanger that will have me rushing to get the next one.

The New Frontier Special: Justice League by Darwyn Cooke, J. Bone and David Bullock (DC Comics)

Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier is one of the most enjoyable comics about the DC universe that I have8966_400x600.jpg ever had the chance to read.

Out of the three stories of this special issue, only the first one was both written and pencilled by Cooke and it’s the best. Like in the Dark Knight, Superman is asked by the government to capture Batman. The fight is of course uneven from a physical point of view, but Bruce Wayne is ingenious and resourceful enough to turn this confrontation into an enjoyable cat and mouse play. However, the cat does not turn out to be who you might expect.

Darwyn Cooke’s art is absolutely magic, he really makes you feel like you’re in the 50s. The political background and the political stance that each character takes (Ah ! How beautiful is Wonder Woman when she’s rebellious) are clever and reflect pretty well some things that are happening now, like abusing the concept of doing things for the “greater good.”.

Read also: The New Frontier Volumes 1 and 2 (DC comics) (pas dispo en Français non plus)

Echo by Terry Moore (Abstract Studio)

echo1fincov.jpgThe first thing you notice when you pick up Terry Moore’s new series is the awesome cover depicting the heroin standing under a downpour silver rain and the striking silver print of the title.

A few pages later we learn that this silver rain is what’s left of a nuclear combat suit. The suit’s first owner was shot by a missile, so we see the silver remains fall poetically from the sky on an innocent bystander.

We don’t learn many things in this first issue, but the scene when the silver remains fall and stick to the heroin and her car is a true moment of grace. After this nice introduction, let’s see if we can be surprised in issue #2.


This week was really good but two books stood out from the rest:

Young Liars #1 by David Lapham (Vertigo)

9053_400x600.jpgA comic that starts by giving Bowie’s “Let’s dance” and Battles’ “Atlas” as a soundtrack can’t be bad. Through Danny’s voice, the narrator, the first issue of Young Liars presents of bunch of interesting characters including a likeable tranny, an ex-teen model waitress, a billionaire high on mushrooms and Viagra and his daughter Sadie L. Browning. This last character is a 20 year-old babe whose life might stop anytime because of a bullet lodged in her head and this situation is her pretext to keep doing adrenaline-based activities like ripping off the nose of an armed bodyguard with her teeth.

Young Liars #1 is completely breathtaking from the first to the last page. It first looks like an enjoyable take on teenager (insouciance) with a rock’n’roll and clubbing background, but it might have other things to say unreciprocated love. What I really want to know is how and why she got shot. Bring on the next issue!

Dead Space #1 by Antony Johnston and Ben Templesmith (Image)

deadspacecomic.jpgPrejudice before reading is sometimes a nasty habit. When I read that Dead Space was meant to be a video game, I doubted its ability to satisfy me. Fortunately I had the clever idea to flip through it when I bought my comics on Thursday, and Templesmith’s art made me buy it. Good on me.

Dead Space is a classic but efficient science-fiction story that takes place in a human colony that excavates a planet. The apparition of a marker, some kind of local philosophical stone, divides the colony between the followers of the unitology religion and the infidels.

The art is fantastic and serves the story that is building up at the perfect speed: we haven’t any of the cool Zombies like the one on the cover yet. From the first pages you can feel an amazing, paranoid and suffocating atmosphere in this book: when I read it I felt a bit like when I saw Alien for the first time. And that’s a damn nice feeling.

Apart from that I also read:

Cable #1 by Duane Swierczynski and Ariel Olivetti (Marvel): a boring and ugly action-packed story.

The Dark Tower: the Long Road home #1 by Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth, Jae Lee and Richard Isanove (Marvel): Lee and Ivanove’s art is not bad but I couldn’t get into the mystical and foggy atmosphere.

Secret Invasion Saga (Marvel): the Skrulls are coming in April, but they’ve been trying to take over the Marvel Universe for 50 years. This thoughtful memo reminds us about their previous attempts and how they were made unsuccessful, like for example that time when Reed Richards convinced the Skrulls that the best thing they could be on earth is… a cow. We’ll see if this technique still works next month.

Pax Romana #2 by Jonathan Hickman (Image): a small army with machine guns, satellites, tanks and helicopters is sent back in A.D. 350 to change history. Their leader decides to betray the Catholic Church and the Pope who sent them, and starts shaping the world his own way.
Hickman is back with his very graphic style and his conspiracy stories. Pax Romana looks very similar to the Nightly News. This series is a cool read but if his next project is the same again it might get annoying in the long run.

Read also: The Nightly News (Image) (pas encore dispo en Français)

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