they have their own website you know...
Link: Herge and Co...
Your not fooling me. This is an oxymoron. Brussels is one of the dullest places on Earth, second only to Islington (not including the Angel). Clever Belgians indeed! Its a contradiction in terms.
I don't know if anyone else has been picking this up (I've been meaning to post this thread for a while!), but if you have, I'd like to know your opinions on issue 7. I read this and it was quite enjoyable, if not quite as frenetic as the last few issues. Still, it was a sort of recouperation/taking stock kind of issue, just like Rennie and Reardon's similarly titled recent run of Caballistics Inc. However, something wasn't sitting right, but I couldn't for the life of me place what it was.
Then it suddenly came to me, like a wet alsatian in a thunder storm! It was the art. It was the art of the story that was putting me off, making me slightly uneasy. Nothing against Shawn Martinbrough, who seems a rather talented artist in his own right, but it just wasn't Jock.
I've always been someone who constantly goes on about the blandness of American mainstream comics because of insistance on making characters fit internal guidelines and not allow an artists own vision of an established character to shine through. Now I find that this 'Jack', or whatever moniker he choses for himself, has so totally engrained himself and his style upon his characters that I eel I can't countenance anyone else drawing them, no matter what pedigree they might hold. Sort of a Carlos Ezquerra/Johnny Alpha type of situation. So I just thought I'd see if it had a similar effect upon anyone else, or whether I'm the lone, babbling voice of insanity. Anyone?
Famous Belgians have a similar problem to that faced by famous Canadians and New Zealanders; everyone assumes that they are from either a nearbye, larger country, England or America. Hence, people think Canadian actors are American, New Zealand actors Australian and Belgians French.
Possibly this is related to the dullness of their home country; people think someone as interesting, talented and/or cool as that couldn`t possibly be from Belgium.
Floyd
(in no hurry to reclaim Air Supply and the BeeGees as Australian)