Frederik PeetersRecensioni

Not my favorite graphic style, and the translation is clumsy, but it is such a unique and well-written story! It is unlike any other graphic novel-- or novel-- that I have read in content and in style.

My favorite chapter is the one where the protagonist rides a well-read wooly mammoth discussing some of his emotional coping mechanisms for dealing with his girlfriend and girlfriend's son being HIV . Who knew Wooly Mammoth's had such good perspective and sense of humor??

Il était un temps où les pilules bleues n’étaient pas encore synonyme de bandaison ou de choix dans la matrice mais plutôt d’une maladie grave et inguérissable, le HIV et les trithérapies.

Dans cette bande dessinée autobiographique, Frederik Peeters parle de son couple, son amour, sa famille recomposée… sa vie avec Cati et son fils, les deux séropositifs.

Une bouillonnante histoire d’amour avec toujours, cette maladie entre les deux. Et les préservatifs, et la peur… Et l’amour !

C’est beau, drôle, inquiet, ça déborde d’émotions incontrôlables sans tomber dans le mélo. Une ode à la vie !

Une histoire inclassable, avec un accident et une route bloquée par un éléphant. Un mari opéré dans un hôpital genevois, un chirurgien charmeur, des enfants… juste en rêve ? des mortes bien vivantes, des documents secrets que les russes convoitent et… et des événements bien curieux.

Faut-il vraiment tout comprendre, analyser les songes et décortiquer les messages cachés pour en saisir le sens profond, la métaphore ?

Cet album laisse le choix et sa lecture, même superficielle (et a condition d’accepter de ne pas tout comprendre) se révèle déroutante mais fluide et facile. Pour une compréhension plus approfondie, ma foi… je vais devoir vous laisser creuser

An assortment of people visit a secluded beach, only to find they cannot leave, as well as some other weirdnesses. An engrossing little tale - the mystery elements really take a back seat to the protrayal of how a disparate group of people cope in a crisis - as such it is of a similar genre to entertainments such as Lost and I'm sure many others. To be honest, I would rather the mystery had been emphasised a little more, shifting it more toward Picnic At Hanging Rock territory. As it is, I found it a touch mundane and ultimately a bit unsatisfying. Worth a reread though, and I like Peeters' art, so I'll push it up to a 4.

Loved the art, loved the strange, loved the end.

Un racconto onesto e semplice, che ha il grande merito di saper coinvolgere su un tema dimenticato e rimosso dalla maggior parte delle nostre vite.

Sometimes you read books you never thought you would read and that is the case with Blue Pills. Based solely on the cover, I would never have gravitated to this title, but I am glad I found it and that I have read it. The reading challenge, Booked2022 challenged you to read a book where the protagonist is HIV positive or has aids. What I love about this book is it shows a romance between someone who is HIV positive and someone who is not, and how they change each other’s world. This is subtitled a positive love story and it is exactly that. It never looks at the downsides. It addresses them, but it’s not the main thing. It’s about the relationship, in finding the good things among the scary things. This book quietly screams of hope and joy and was not what I was expecting at all. Even though it is 22 years old it’s still entirely relevant and a fantastic read whether you need to fill a reading challenge or just want to stretch your standard reading pile.

Like nothing I've ever read. I think I got the gist of it. Kind of like Prophet in a way. I'm a forever fan since I read Blue Pills.

Truly a moving story. I can't help but appreciate the difficulties the characters are dealing with and the complexities of the emotions. 2 thumbs up. This is no superhero comic book.

Oleg (alter ego de Frederik ?) est dessinateur de BD et il peine un peu à trouver de l’inspiration.

Et il raconte sa vie. Avec des hauts, des délires créatifs, des retombées sur terre, sa femme et sa fille qu'il aime, la maladie, les salons de BD, son métier, les petits et gros soucis... la vie et ses questionnements.

Un album avec des pages très créatives et quelques des longueurs. Un quotidien aujourd’hui

Mais qui est qui dans cette bande dessinée ? Car dans ce western personne n’est vraiment celui qu’il dit et tous les protagonistes avancent masqués.

Une belle histoire ou le fantastique s’invite discrètement dans les territoires indiens où les esprits ne sont jamais loin.

Un album avec diverses thématiques qui se côtoient, se frôlent et s’affrontent. L’histoire de la colonisation des terres, du désir, des corps et de l’identité

A good, and pretty creepy, idea for a story! A group of people end up on a beach and start aging - rapidly! Children grow quickly into teens, and then adults. Older people get much older, and then...

Puberty, menopause, Alzheimer's, and death - all within the course of one day! What the??? And they have no idea why?! Add to that a story-within-a-story about a king and a half-man, and this may just have been the creepiest graphic novel I've ever read!

"It's impossible to tell you my age: it changes all the time!" - Alphonse Allais

I wasn't very impressed by the M. Night Shyamalan movie, but I was intrigued that it was based on a graphic novel I hadn't read. But this makes even less sense that the movie, sexually objectifies women and children, and includes the telling of a dumb fable about a king building walls against Death. The art is pretty ugly also.

Yuck.

Si l'on devait mourir demain, qu'est-ce qu'on ferait de plus, qu'est-ce qu'on ferait de moins ? Un château de sable ? Une partouze ? Un enfant ? Embrasser une dernière fois celui ou celle qu'on aime ?

Sur la plage abandonnée de Frederik Peeters et Pierre Oscar Lévy, leurs personnages n'ont pas le temps de s'apitoyer. Le temps est assassin. Vengeance de la nature face à la vanité humaine ? Accident chimique ? Expérience sociologique ? Les questions se posent sans que ne fusent les réponses. Et qui est cette silhouette au loin qui observe ce microcosme en train de se débattre pour survivre ? L'auteur ? Le lecteur ?

Les paysages maritimes auraient mérité de la couleur. Quant au faciès de certains personnages, il déçoit. Mais le débat qu'ouvre cette intrigue s'annonce passionnant. Bien plus que "Old", l'adaptation cinématographique de M. Night Shyamalan, qui doutant de l'intelligence de son spectateur préfère lui donner des explications "rassurantes". Comme si cela pouvait empêcher notre destinée.

A fantastic end to a compelling vision of sci-fi, phantasmagoria, and plain ole family troubles.

An down to earth space opera...I could've done with a bit more epic and a little less earth.

What a thriller!

A great sci-fi story that manages to be both discursive and action-packed. Planetary exploration, genetic manipulation, alien ecology, conspiracy, etc. A cool and unique art style too, very grounded even when things start to get wild. A complete story in 4 volumes, Aama ends with a bang, not a whimper.

A great sci-fi story that manages to be both discursive and action-packed. Planetary exploration, genetic manipulation, alien ecology, conspiracy, etc. It's the real deal... It ends with a bang, not a whimper. A cool and unique art style too, very grounded even when things start to get wild (it's a complete story in 4 volumes).

Available in English from Self Made Hero.

aama 3 gave me more questions than answers and as much as I want to jump right into 4 I am taking my time.

aama 2 kept me hooked and opened up a world that just keeps getting stranger.

In a vague time and place, little Addidas suffers fainting spells and works with her father as a chimney sweep, donning a helmet and crawling into the spaces too small for an adult to reach. Drawn as an adorable little waifish raggamuffin, I was instantly drawn into her giant eyes and found myself with sympathetic feelings and a strong protective urge toward her.

In another storyline track, a monster labors away in a weird and hellish underground boiler room. These sequences are ugly and wordless and held absolutely no interest for me.

Eventually, the two storylines cross and manage to cancel each other out entirely, leaving me in an emotional limbo. I like Addidas, but I don't care what happens next to the monster.

I'd almost keep reading the story for the art, but I fear the writing would probably start to annoy me.

Aama really impressed me with its gorgeous coloring and style. The story too, has a lot less fantasy than what I've become accustomed to having just finished Saga. However, Peeters has roped me into an adventure that feels exciting and already raising the specter of tragedy.

A couple of gadabouts bop around the galaxy in their spaceship looking for great fishing holes and lots of drugs. But when they take aboard a sexy young runaway girl, they find themselves targeted by thugs hired by her powerful father. Violence ensues, and then they are on the run through outer space, crossing paths with colorful characters during their search for a safe haven.

This book is sort of an inversion of typical action movies that have slam-bang adventure broken up by brief interludes of calm and reflection. The interludes go on forever and eventually take over so much that the last bit of action basically happens offscreen. Frankly, the characters aren't interesting enough to merit all this time to reflect.

Total snoozefest. But I should have expected as much from Euro science fiction, since I have such a poor track record with that garbage.

Whoa. That story is nuts. It is beautifully drawn and really tackles some interesting visual problems. The story itself is a great classic style nutso sci-fi. There really need to be more comics like this.