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CIPC #400: Suske en Wiske Vol.375, De Schakende Schim

Posted on November 19, 2024November 19, 2024

Last time I talked about one of the Suske and Wiske comics, I complained about the low, low quality of post-Vandersteen Suske and Wiske stories.…

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CIPC #399: Tom Poes en het betoverde schaakspel

Posted on November 12, 2024November 12, 2024

Barring my Dutch readers, there’s probably precious few of you that know Tom Poes, so let me briefly introduce him. He’s a somewhat anthropomorphised white…

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CIPC #398: Ghostbusters: Frozen empire

Posted on November 6, 2024

The last time we met the Ghostbusters, they were a few young teenagers busting ghosts in a small Midwestern town. Now they are a couple…

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CIPC #397: Cheyenne S1 E14, Johnny Bravo

Posted on October 30, 2024October 30, 2024

Cheyenne was a rather popular wild west television series produced by Warner Brothers in the fifties and sixties. It deals with the adventures of the…

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CIPC #396: Seinfeld S9 E16, The burning

Posted on October 23, 2024October 23, 2024

Seinfeld is one the most beloved and popular sitcoms of all time and, judging from this single episode, that seems justified. The plot is admittedly…

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CIPC #395: Gretel & Hansel

Posted on October 16, 2024February 15, 2025

This is a bizarre film. It’s obviously based on the Grimm brothers fairytale, but it has very little to do with it. There’s no evil…

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CIPC #394: Botany 500 ad

Posted on October 9, 2024October 9, 2024

I don’t think I’ve ever spotlighted suits here, probably because it wouldn’t suit me. That is probably why the guy in today’s subject looks so…

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CIPC #393: Monsters S3 E15, The space eaters

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024

Last time we met with Monsters,1 there was a man looking for his daughter in an art gallery were a rather disturbing portrait of her…

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CIPC #392: The Dick Van Dyke show S1E18, Who owes who what?

Posted on September 24, 2024September 25, 2024

The Dick Van Dyke show is, despite the suspicious spelling of the main character’s last name, one of the most highly acclaimed and popular sitcoms…

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CIPC #391: Celine Geser, Unsere Umwelt

Posted on September 17, 2024September 17, 2024

When the Where’s Wally? series1 conquered the world in the late eighties and early nineties, it more or less introduced the find-the-figure book to the…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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