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This might be the decade of the comic book movie, but it’s certainly the century of the sequel. Or at least the weekend of the sequel. I’m sure that movie offerings on holiday weekends used to be a lot better than they seem to be these days. Really, though, I shouldn’t complain too much, since it wasn’t nearly as bad as I feared. I just have to complain about something, and the kids in the theatre were surprisingly well-behaved.
Just when you thought Johnny Depp couldn’t get any stranger. I mean, the tides. All right, yeah, they’re both stranger.
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We are in the middle of the decade of the comic book movie. Technically, this is based on a 16-issue series of graphic novels by Hyung Min-woo, but close enough. It’s almost exactly nothing like the comics, though, as far as I can tell. Shocker.
Remember when I told you to stay for the teaser after the end credits for Iron Man 2? Well, this is why.
This is a comic book movie, though I wouldn’t blame you for not knowing that. I didn’t, though I did suspect it enough to look it up and find out, and sure enough, it’s based on the Dylan Dog series by Italian writer Tiziano Sclavi (honored in the flick by having a vampire named after him). The comic is set in London, despite being in Italian, and the main character is what’s known as L’indagatore dell’incubo, or Nightmare Investigator. Sounds much more exciting than a regular sort of investigator, doesn’t it? Well, more exciting in the sense of a lot scarier.
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