1954 / Audiobook / 224 pages / USA
***
Asimov's paranoid future-noir buddy-cop case mainly served to diminish my appreciation for Philip K. Dick, so that's a shame. The technofear remains resonant, even if the overpopulation anxiety overcompensates a tad.
1975-76 (collected 1976) / Ecomics / 62 pages / Belgium
**
You wait eight years for another Tintin story and it's just a duller sequel/self-remake of one of the more depressing books. Whether he wrote it to get some politics off his chest, to pay the inland revenue or just for something to do, the enthusiasm isn't there. I don't remember the dog even being in it.
1994 / Ecomics / 96 pages / USA
**
Inconsistent and repetitive at the same time, Dark Horse Indy isn't the satisfying supplement that the novels were. But since Hergé died, I guess there was a market for sub-par Tintin.
Lee Marrs and Leo Durañona, based on the story by Joe Pinney, Hal Barwood, Bill Stoneham and Aric Wilmunder, Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix
1994-95 / Ecomics / 96 pages / USA***
Another game adaptation – which means it's as poorly paced as any action film's economic comic conversion – this one's more interesting than Fate of Atlantis, since this Temple of Doom-style horror sequel was never made in the end. But that didn't stop me mentally animating its elder gods, tree women and Nazi zombies in hyperactive retro pixels. I never would have made it that far anyway.
2007 / Ebook / 144 pages / Canada
**
The album/ensemble lends itself to technical jargon and elitism, so I won't hold this gushing snob's appraisal against it. It's the only book so far that's provided a glossary to help us plebs through, and you can look up some mainstream artists you like in the index to find out why you're wrong.
