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CIPC #403: Harvester

Posted on December 10, 2024December 10, 2024

It’s been a long time since we talked about a video game, and it’s been a really long time since we talked about one of…

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CIPC #402: Weetabix ad

Posted on December 4, 2024December 4, 2024

Weetabix is a brand of breakfast cereal. In the space of all things, there is perhaps nothing farther removed from chess than breakfast cereals. So…

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CIPC #401: Wunder ad

Posted on November 27, 2024

Although I’m sure it’s never going to go away entirely, the time of the printed advertisement seems to be drawing to a close. But advertisement…

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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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