Started reading the Blacksad comics again. Tried it maybe ten years ago. This time they go much smoother, though.
Now I got the joke from the game about hitting someone with a fire extinguisher. And also about climbing to the top of a skyscraper with a different purpose.
First tome, “Somewhere Within the Shadows” is very basic: Blacksad once dates an actress. They broke up. Now she’s dead. He looks for the guy that she used to date last. Turns out he’s dead too. So he looks for the guy she dated before him. Turns out he’s the richest person in town. So he goes up and shoots that guy in the head, because he’s so smug. And Blacksad’s friend, police officer, covers this up as a suicide. Beautifully drawn, beautifully written, but a tad too short and basic.
“Arctic nation” is about white supremacists (all white animals: arctic fox, polar bear, an owl) that terrorize a black suburb.
A black girl goes missing. Then her mother ends up dead. If the first story was over-simplistic, the second story is overcomplicated. Some 20 years ago the Polar Bear decided to become a KKK leader, and threw his pregnant black wife to literally die in the cold. She survived, though, and raised two daughters, one of which was white and another black (I guess it’s a joke about white and black bears?). The white daughter seduced her father (he didn’t know she’s his daughter, remember?) in order to get her revenge. She started to spread rumors that the Polar Bear is a pedophile, and arranged a false kidnapping of her black sister daughter.
When the black sister started acting, she got killed by the wife’s lover. I said that it’s overcomplicated, right?
There’s another nice play of words, when a magpie says he hid the girl “in his nest”. Turns out she’s hidden in a warplane wreck. Gunners nest. Magpie nest.
