Any fans of Bilal out there?
Quentulus Qazgar
18-03-2005, 21:20
I was just sitting in the library reading one comic-book by Enki Bilal (I don't remember the english name but it's the first part of the series with the ancient egyptian gods with their pyramid-shaped spaceship and the god Horus's adventures in Paris in one poor lad's body), when I started to think this question.
So, How many of you are fans of Bilal? It'd be nice to know how many people are attracted to the rather...unique...style the books are drawn.
Bobs Own Pipe
19-03-2005, 03:39
I read a graphic novel by Bilal and Dionnet a long time ago - I think it was called 'Exterminator 17'.
I liked it quite a bit, but that was roughly fifteen years ago...!
Quentulus Qazgar
19-03-2005, 12:15
You should try some of his new novels. "The monster's dream" was quite good.
West - Europa
19-03-2005, 13:37
I read some, if not all of his comic books, in Dutch or in French.
Btw there's a movie out. Les Immortels (The Immortals).
Demented Hamsters
19-03-2005, 13:43
I read some, if not all of his comic books, in Dutch or in French.
Btw there's a movie out. Les Immortels (The Immortals).
But it was really crappy.
Quentulus Qazgar
19-03-2005, 14:02
Yeah, the movie wasn't really a masterpiece compared to the graphic novels it's based on.
I think the worst thing they could do was to transfer the scenes of the original plot from Paris & Berlin to New York. It's also quite stupid that the original story took place in 2025(or something like that) and the movie in 2095(more or less).
Also, they couldn't copy Bilal's twisted sense of humanity in the film in all it's power. That's what I love in his novels: human's are nothing but a disease.