Thursday, February 4, 2010

Is It Safe To Fly After Atrial Fibrillation

Recreation

Undoubtedly, the early years of the 80's were glory years for the comic industry in Spain. They were years that saw the light of mythical magazines, which, along with a new batch of local illustrators, also appeared to startled espaƱolitos that just came out of the dark night of Francoist censorship the cream of underground comic and author of beyond our borders. Almost all of them fell to the sector crisis that ensued in the 90's. One of the most mythical header was 1984, a publication devoted to science fiction of the legendary and now defunct publisher Toutain. It was in its pages in 1982, where the Argentinean Horacio Altuna, draftsman, and Carlos Trillo, writer, presented a series that came out of all molds: The last recess.


plan if we were in gafapasta pedantic, we should compare this work with the Golding novel "Lord of the Flies. The latter consists of twelve stories recreational autoconclusivas that run in a post-apocalyptic classic. A doomsday weapon, which was not further explained that its effects, has killed a person who had passed puberty. In the world there are only children, abandoned to their fate. Children who will grow up all at once, to survive.

Invariably, these children fear always grow, because the duration of the effect of the bomb, growing up means dying, make the same mistakes of their elders, without any compromise on cruelty, in a ruined city filled with the corpses of those who have not survived, and was eventually forced to leave (leave a dead world to build a new, all very symbolic, if I may say.)

The story is told in a strict black and white, with more black than white, and Altuna shines in the urban panorama, Introducing deserted streets, full of papers flying and trash strewn oppressive creating an environment that reinforces the feeling of helplessness of the characters moving through them.

In short, a masterpiece that Altuna released in our country, and that all good genre fans undoubtedly will enjoy. The only downside is that since the argument, the reader (mostly male) may not enjoy the legendary author of that domain as a drawing of the female anatomy is concerned. But you know, you can not have everything in life ...

Article originally published in the 11/01/2006 Mondofriki site

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