I liked Frankencastle so far. I liked that they brought him back to life without fanfare. As if the reassembling and reanimating of the Punisher was a cinch and didn't even require exposition. Usually Marvel would be at pains to tediously detail "how it was done." This time it happened off-camera. We wake up as Frank & strangle the werewolf. What was it he said? "Your dog eats his own shit. Stinks." I don't know if even Ennis could have come up with that line. And I liked the Disney/Moebius art. I only resented that I'd already read half of it in last month's number.
I liked that line, "Ghod makes mistakes!"
Also the distant sight, from the ground up, of Daken chopping up Frank. As seen by Jigsaw's son.
Yes I have seen and like well Quai des Brumes. I mix it up, understandably, with Clouzot's Quai des Orfevres, which is superior by far. Quai des Brumes has a great performance by Michel Simon though, as the lowest trash of the low. You seen him in Boudu Saved From Drowning? A better film, I argue against the tide, than La Regle du Jeu. Meanwhile Gabin is at his inscrutable-hammy best. I like Gabin a lot, but I find him patently absurd every time. (Except in Touchez Pas Au Grisbi and maybe La Grande Illusion.) They used to say, "Gabin always plays Gabin." Speaking of Carne, have you seen Therese Raquin? I consider it a better film (than Quai des Brumes). Although, all in, you come to believe what "they" say, that the excellence of Les Enfants du Paradis is really all down to Prevert.
