I used to love Tintin and Uncle Scrooge. I have trouble reading them now.
I always remember a post from the old SB where someone explained ActRaiser as a colonialist narrative.
That was a fun post, I donât remember who wrote it.
I still like Tintin, but I canât read them without
in the back of my mind.
Some albums more than others, of course.
yâall know about this right
also for me itâs indiana jones, even though itâs not necessarily a âproduct of another timeâ itâs a pretty faithful mimicry of one, plus it has its own 80âs racism to deal with. i still love all of the movies though
I think the Spielberg Tintin is an interesting joint and a pretty compelling kidsâ movie and itâs a shame it got mostly ignored in the US because I want the occasional ridiculous thinkpiece about how it juggles the baggage of the comics to skim half of before I switch to a new tab and forget about until the immense RAMweight makes me just restart my browser anew.
Better Indiana Jones than Crystal Skull, too.
HergĂ©âs politics are just awful in the first several Tintins. He got much better over time, though.
Tinrin in Tibet and The Castafiore Emerald are, together, maybe my favorite comic book stories ever?
jonny quest is one of my favorite cartoons but uh
i mean damn
they really tried to make hadji not have magic powers for like one half of the âreal adventuresâ which was a nice sentiment i guess
just having dudes constantly speak in literal gibberish
race dipping himself in purple to pretend to be a pygmy god and yelling âGet back, you heathen monkeys!â was bad enough that they straight up blank out that line
well that one and also âhere comes the orient expressâ when jonny was trying to dodge an asian dude
i guess i can just watch the ones where theyâre out in the desert fighting random science monsters
i remember being amazed when speed racer went to africa they didnât give the tribesman any kind of stupid voice or accent at least
tezuka, herge, eisner, seuss
miller?
I think the forever delayed and possibly dead Tintin sequel(s) are the sequels I am most interested in watching.
Hereâs a thing. What do you think of the imperialist dynamic implicit in a game like Minecraft? The world is there for your use, and there is no downside. You are the lord and the land is your servant. Andrew Jackson would love this shit.
I donât know about the psychological applicability of a cute self-contained gameworld to the physical universe. I mean, you are the lord and master of a Minecraft world, it does exist only for your pleasure.
there are villages of peaceful humanoids in minecraft, though. you canât enslave them, but if you want to steal everything they own, burn their village to the ground and either slaughter them or leave them to be slaughtered by the monsters that appear outside at night, the game does nothing to discourage that.
Yes, but how constructive a simulacrum is that as an ethical canvas to explore?
Actraiser is basically this turned up to 11, right? Thatâs why I actually find the âproblematicâ parts of that game to be the best part, it makes the god-fantasy aspects of all video games literal. not only do you have the powers of a god, but you do what gods actually do, which is subjugate people and force them to worship you. it makes total sense.
actraiser doesnât actually show what happened the first time around, remember. Satan and his boss monsters triumphed over God, who goes to take a nap for several centuries before returning to clean house. Itâs more of a property dispute kind of thing.
I canât see Minecraft this way. Especially in pre-villager versions.
I wonder if Corto Maltese isnât sort of an antidote to this. Some of the drawings are problematic to be sure, especially those of asian characters, but the themes are largely anti-colonial and theyâre full of historical detail rather than stereotypes. I may be forgetting some obvious outrage, though.