I used to read Bunty and Jackie.  Also the Dandy and the Beano - well I used to read anything I could get my hands on because we had no tv.   

There was a Doctor Strange film in the late 70s/early 80s. Not exactly a cinematic masterpiece but good fun I thought.

The Mighty Thor featured in one of the Incredible Hulk movies in the 80s (the revival of the Bill Bixby Hulk). Horribly mis-cast and stupidly scripted, Thor came across as an incoherent Californian surfer. "Whoaaa! By the beard of my father Odin you'll, like, pay for that, dude!" The Hulk was a marvel of eloquence in comparison 

Well, with all the attention it's getting it must be great!

But you'd think they'd found a manuscript penned by Merlin himself!

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

A few of my favourite books when I was a child:



Bizarre and surreal stories written by Sybren Polet, who's also a writer of experimental poems and novels. J.M. Coetzee translated some of his poems into English. I'll add some of them to the poetry thread in the near future.




I loved the Wipneus en Pim series. Although we have the same name, the little gnome Pim and I don't have a lot in common. Pim loves to eat and is overweight and I've always had a very ascetic nature. Wipneus and Pim were created by a roman catholic priest who lived in the same monastery as a relative of mine. Wipneus and Pim once travelled to the moon with a silver rocket and they also had a silver submarine called the Silver Fish.




A sort of A Soldier of Orange for children, written by a homophobic, anti-catholic, orthodox protestant member of the Dutch parliament (but this I didn't know when I was eight years old). The book is currently being adapted for the cinema. Mr Prins (his real name was Jongeling) wrote several sequels to this book.

I also liked comic books:







Does anyone here remember Inspector Canardo?

Looks a bit past the watershed, to my mind, inky...