The latest issue of Fantomen lands very close to Sweden’s new reality – work

reconsidering. When I was traveling last week, I automatically bought a Fantomen (#22/23) at a press office that smelled of cabana.

I’ve done this in between cycles of the last few years. I feel the nostalgic joy of shedding a few twenties and drowning in the comic book world that was the center of my life between the ages of eight and eleven.

But when I paid, I quickly thought: “Damn, how much does 79 kroner cost for half an hour of entertainment, compared to a broadcast subscription!” But there is a fundamental difference: when Netflix is ​​paid by direct debit, you do not open a maze of childhood.

In the opening adventure, The Walking Ghost fights villains with rage. Bandits union all over the world with giant inconspicuous tattoos V on their foreheads.

Here the reader follows how a tomb thief with the Gothic name Caspar Lichtenstein starts the world organization.

Falling into a fantasy world

I really want to fall into the realm of fantasy, but what is amazing is how I am constantly expelled from the fantasy world that screenwriter Anderson and cartoonist Anthony Spay have worked on proposing.

The expulsion actually begins in the first text box as Phantom is in a small village called Allerseelen and immediately begins to think of the new Austrian folk band of the same name as the village.

A radical right-wing band that interpreted Nazi occultist Carl Maria Willigut and produced an album about the Third Reich’s colonization of Antarctica.

I fold the paper and quickly lose myself in acoustic guitar mats, high-pitched Austrian speech and articles about a controversial concert with the band in Kreuzberg, not least the history of the purpose of the Nazi German whaling station to increase the country’s local fat production.

Break up the reading experience

Unfortunately, my soft brain continues to fragment the experience of reading in the occasional Libertalia, which has been translated as Win or Die (an accurate translation from French by translator Goran Semp).

The tale of an eighteenth-century pirate unfolds with interior photos of Matthias Carlsson of the Swedish Democrats chewing Finnish sticks and having a cozy close-up meeting with Jordan B Peterson in Oiko’s office.

It’s a shame, because it’s a typical Phantom magazine adventure series about how Captain Mason tries to create a kingdom where equality and brotherhood reign.

Something seems perfect these times.

Reboot from 1987

Only in the concluding series, an iteration from 1987, can I fully dive into the adventure where the Man Who Can’t Die battles with wolves, uncovers a plot and looks at the dead body of Gustav III.

Occasionally, it’s also a series I actually read when I was 10.

When I finally got to the last page of the magazine, the fan inside me woke up in all seriousness and I feel I should get the next issue of the adventure “The Lost Planet”.

A story like this was sold: “A modern plane is forced to make an emergency landing in the jungle, and Phantom helps pilots who want to get to the neighboring country of Bengal, the fascist dictatorship of Rhodia! But is it really a wise decision …?”