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CIPC #413: Jommeke Vol.186, De pruik van Anatool

Posted on February 19, 2025

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…

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CIPC #412: Inspector Morse S7 E2, The day of the devil

Posted on February 11, 2025February 11, 2025

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…

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CIPC #411: REVEIL

Posted on February 4, 2025

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…

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CIPC #410: Der Alte S30, Teufelsbrut

Posted on January 30, 2025

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…

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CIPC #409: Oddity

Posted on January 21, 2025January 21, 2025

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…

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CIPC #408: Future foundation Vol.2 No.10

Posted on January 14, 2025January 14, 2025

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…

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CIPC #407: Banacek S2 E1, No stone unturned

Posted on January 6, 2025January 6, 2025

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…

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CIPC #406: Ilja Ilf & Jevgeni Petrov, De twaalf stoelen

Posted on December 31, 2024December 31, 2024

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…

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CIPC #405: Holiday in handcuffs

Posted on December 24, 2024December 30, 2024

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…

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CIPC #404: Copycat

Posted on December 17, 2024December 17, 2024

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…

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