Compiling the usual end-of-year list has been harder than usual this time. I’ve been more consistent, it seems. That means that this year’s bests are…
CIPC #355: Univis ad
Glasses! Glasses are brilliant. They’re one of humanity’s greatest victories over nature. Instead of stumbling around in an eternal blur, millions of people can now…
CIPC #354: Slaughterhouse rulez
The British have always reserved a rather prominent place in their fiction for boarding schools. From Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby all the way to Rowling’s Harry…
CIPC #353: Existential comics No.467
A long, long time ago, we discussed an issue of Existential comics in which Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were seen playing a game…
CIPC #352: Union Investment ad
This is going to be a rather boring post, I’m afraid. You see, when the people at Union Investment decided to make a chess themed…
CIPC #351: Faerie tale theatre S3 E4, Thumbelina
Have we had a fairytale yet? I don’t think we have. Let’s have a fairytale. Our subject comes from an American anthology series of fairytales…
CIPC #350: Becker S4 E1, Tell me lies
I’ve never been able to get on with sitcoms. I suspect the reason is that, if you have characters in a normal environment and you…
CIPC #349: House on the hill
There is a whole wide world out there of indie horror games. They usually only last a couple of hours and are made on a…
CIPC #348: Banacek S1 E1, Let’s hear it for a living legend
During the relatively short history of television, an unfathomable number of detective series have been produced in every language under the sun, in all sorts…
CIPC #347: Lacuna Coil, I forgive (but I won’t forget your name)
It’s starting to get to the point that I myself can’t even remember everything I’ve talked about on this blog. When I decided to spotlight…