Guust Flater, or Gaston Lagaffe in the original French, is probably the most popular anti-hero of the Franco-Belgian school of comic books. The series, written…
CIPC #15: Book cover galore
Chess, due to its symbolical connotations, is a popular motive for book covers, even if the book itself has nothing whatever to do with it.…
CIPC #14: Knight moves
Fourteenth instalment! Finally a nice round number!1 That deserves something special, I’d say. Something very special indeed: I’m going to watch a movie. More specifically,…
CIPC #13: Tintin Vol.5: The broken ear
Obscure engravings, highly local comics series – the ‘popular’ in the name of this blog has become somewhat spurious lately. High time, I think, to…
CIPC #12: Kiekeboe Vol.14: Een zakje chips
Kiekeboe is a family adventure comic series which is hugely popular in Flanders and, to some extend, the Netherlands. The series has been running for…
CIPC #11: Checkmate the king
As you might already have deduced from this site and its title, I have a slight interest in history. Yet in this blog, I haven’t…
CIPC #10: X-men
The X-men, as most of you doubtlessly know, are an American team of superheroes. They get their name from their mentor, professor Xavier, and the…
CIPC #9: The Thing
After dealing with comic books, television series, a computer game, and a commercial I feel it’s high time I tackled a movie. And what better…
CIPC #8: GEICO commercial
Chess is just the most exciting thing ever. Just think about it: two men staring at some pieces of wood for five hours on end,…
CIPC #7: Numb3rs, S1 E9: Sniper zero
Previously, I called The mentalist a mediocre mystery fiction show. By these standards, Numb3rs is dreadful. First of all, the show has given in to…