Jommeke is a Belgian comic series for very young children. The eponymic hero and main character is a young boy, devoid of characteristics barring perfection…
CIPC #412: Inspector Morse S7 E2, The day of the devil
In this episode of the classic Inspector Morse series, our eponymous hero is after a satanic murderer with a long rap sheet of various depraved…
CIPC #411: REVEIL
Psychological horror is a genre of video games that does not, as its name would suggest, deal with the terrors of p-hacking, data fabrication, or…
CIPC #410: Der Alte S30, Teufelsbrut
When we previously talked about Der Alte, it was considerably older but the old one in question was considerably younger. For the first one hundred…
CIPC #409: Oddity
I’ve discussed one or two horror thrillers on this blog, but this one is a bit of an oddity. I don’t mean the plot which…
CIPC #408: Future foundation Vol.2 No.10
American comics are more or less terra incognita to me. I have, of course, absorbed some knowledge about them via cultural osmosis, but not enough…
CIPC #407: Banacek S2 E1, No stone unturned
There will be no Best of/Worst of list this year, for the simple but compelling reason that I don’t feel like making one. Instead, we’ll…
CIPC #406: Ilja Ilf & Jevgeni Petrov, De twaalf stoelen
On the few occasions that I’ve talked about a book, I solely discussed the merits of the author. Today, I will consider it as a…
CIPC #405: Holiday in handcuffs
Last week’s movie about the sadistic serial killer was kind of fun, but this one is really disturbing. When in Copycat someone goes around gleefully…
CIPC #404: Copycat
There is an old aphorism that claims reality is weirder than fiction but, like most aphorisms, it is mostly bullshit. Take, for example, our subject…