The stage is nearly dark. A hand touches a skin, something that might be an amniotic sac. Light flashes, only for an instant like a lightning bolt. Drums pound and a human creature slowly crawls out of the sac. The creature, a naked man, crawls onto the floor. He tries…
Hollywood is riding the big wave of comic book movies for years now and even though I’m getting a bit tired with it, it will not stop. Not one year without at least two or three of those adaptions. In 2018 alone there have been – wait – five of…
Have you ever experienced this? You’re sitting in a bus. An elderly man wants to take the seat opposite to you. He doesn’t ask, if you would let him pass. He just forces his way through, while you’re trying to get your legs out of the way. You can’t do…
This year’s personal premiere: I’ve visited the Frankfurt Book Fair. Am I excited? Yes and no. Would I repeat it? Definetly. But let’s go step by step.
It is october. Each year in october the world of the reading and the writing meets in Frankfurt/Main and this year I’ll visit the Frankfurt Book Fair too.
So stay tuned for I’ll give you a few impressions tomorrow on Twitter and a full report here in the next days.
Yours
Mister We
It took a long time to read the book, a far to long time. It’s been nearly a whole year. But this is my own fault, not the author’s. The book isn’t written to difficult, it’s not even the fact, that I chose to read the English original. I simply…
Can this be put in English properly? Well, let’s give it a try: I agree, that comic books are no high culture. But they are culture. Somehow. Comic books are art. And there is made a kind of cult around some comic books. Language is obviously part of our culture,…
Back some 30 years when I still went to school, all the old dramas caused a lot of pain to us all. Be it Goethe, Schiller or Lessing – noone seemed to want to read those stories. But it may well be, that we disliked reading them, because we had…
Hello world! It’s me, Mister We. Yes, I’m the same Mister We, who normally hangs around full of heavy thoughts at the Gdnodds. I greet You, world, and I welcome You at the home of my not so heavy thoughts ’bout things, that make our world more colorful, distract us…