tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post8477161862334288727..comments2023-09-25T10:15:41.979-04:00Comments on NYSocBoy's Beefcake and Bonding: Suske en Wiske: Beefcake and Adventure in Flemish ComicsNYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-49163694062161357882020-07-24T13:35:45.482-04:002020-07-24T13:35:45.482-04:00During the decades there have been changes in the ...During the decades there have been changes in the amount of romance. For a while, Sidonia was very much in love with Ambrose - who did not respond. Suske and Wiske showed signs of puppy-love. Amoras 2048 was probably an attempt at making a graphic novel for adults. It did not end well, every character that made a mistake died in a horrible way. The drawings are bad: objects disappear and reappear or move around, Suske sometimes has the limbs of an anorexia patient and later the looks of an extreme bodybuilder, and so on. But the mourning by Suske over Wiske is quite realistic... It is much better to look for the albums 'The Secret of the Gladiators' and 'The bronze Key', full colour reprints of newspaper-strips from the late 1940s or 50s. Suske and Wiske have a brother - sister dynamic, Ambrose is a friend and the only adult - and just as much a hero. And there are lots of muscles! In the Dutch series they are numbers 113 and 116.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com