Björn recenserade Idées noires av Franquin
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Finally got to read this again after 20 years. Franquin's dark thoughts probably works best if you're familiar with his other work, especially Gaston, whose humour it strips down to the darkest, grimiest despair. This is a comedian who, for the most part, is sick of telling jokes. The satire in Idées is blunt as fuck, and the punchlines don't offer any release; instead Franquin settles for describing a black-and-white cynical world where the only way anybody wins is that the people he doesn't like (hunters, politicians, military, businessmen, etc) may occasionally get a taste of their own medicine. This is a world in which the government's solution to a plague is to order more hearses, where solar flares are explained as the sun throwing up in embarrassment of us, where the welcoming lights of a faraway village turn out to be the eyes of wolves, and where the …
Finally got to read this again after 20 years. Franquin's dark thoughts probably works best if you're familiar with his other work, especially Gaston, whose humour it strips down to the darkest, grimiest despair. This is a comedian who, for the most part, is sick of telling jokes. The satire in Idées is blunt as fuck, and the punchlines don't offer any release; instead Franquin settles for describing a black-and-white cynical world where the only way anybody wins is that the people he doesn't like (hunters, politicians, military, businessmen, etc) may occasionally get a taste of their own medicine. This is a world in which the government's solution to a plague is to order more hearses, where solar flares are explained as the sun throwing up in embarrassment of us, where the welcoming lights of a faraway village turn out to be the eyes of wolves, and where the last two survivors after a nuclear war try to start a fire by smashing two handgrenades together.
No, subtle it ain't. But damn, it's good.