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CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2020

Posted on January 5, 2021

Never before have people been so eager for a year to end. All because they cannot wait for my review of the year. I can…

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CIPC #203: Asterix Vol.4, Asterix the gladiator

Posted on December 29, 2020

Sic transit gloria mundi! There is no better way to summarise the fate of the Asterix series. It started all the way back in 1959…

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CIPC #202: The manhole

Posted on December 23, 2020

2020 has become the year of video games. People have been at home rather more than usual and, naturally, they spend it playing Fortnite, Among…

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CIPC #201: De strateeg ad

Posted on December 16, 2020

Our subject for today is a podcast. Well, not quite. It’s some kind of ad that, at the time of writing, appears as the official…

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CIPC #200: S. S. Van Dine, Le fou des échecs

Posted on December 9, 2020

This is the third year now that I do this blog. I have touched on movies, television series, paintings, comics, literature, sculptures – pretty much…

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CIPC #199: Alice in Wonderland

Posted on December 1, 2020

If you were to ask some random schmuck from the streets to give an example of chess in popular culture, provided you do this at…

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CIPC #198: De regels van Floor S3 E16, Fanatiek

Posted on November 24, 2020

De regels van Floor is a still-running Dutch television series. The title means ‘Floor’s rules’ and the concept is that, every episode, Floor comes up…

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CIPC #197: The twilight saga: Breaking dawn – part 1

Posted on November 17, 2020

Few traces of it are left, but about a decade ago, Twilight was the biggest thing in the world. Millions and millions of copies of…

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CIPC #196: Defenders of the Earth E5, Bits ‘n’ chips

Posted on November 10, 2020

Defenders of the Earth is an animated television series, starring three superheroes from American comics: Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the magician. Together, the…

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CIPC #195: Cores advertisement

Posted on November 3, 2020

Never before have I been so quick! Our subject for today — and today is November 3rd, 2020 — is an advertisement scanned from the…

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