Thank you boys, now I am clean
Renovating really does seep the juices from you. We spent the whole day washing walls (and ceilings, and floors), afted having spent much of yesterday doing the exact same thing. Apparently the previous tenants weren't very keen on keeping the place clean; we though one of the walls in the living room was painted with two different shades of white (the whole place has been a bit haphazardly painted, so it wouldn't be a surprise if they had just ran out of paint mid-wall). But it turned out that the part we thought was painted with a darker shade was just incredibly dirty. Not a pretty sight. Until now that we've washed the place, of course.
Next up will be filling the various holes in the walls and after that finally repainting the walls in something more attractive than mustard and brown.
On a completely unrelated note, the list from my last entry is now out-of-date as I went and bought Il y a un sorcier à Champignac, L'ombre du Z and Panade à Champignac (I had of course read the middle one before, but that was ages ago). I'm not quite sure about Sorcier and Panade though... the former felt still like the series was still very much in development and Franquin hadn't found the final, ideal form for it, while in the latter Franquin seemed bored with Spirou and Fantasio. The extensive usage of Gaston Lagaffe in both of the stories in Panade also seems to indicate this, him being Franquin's original character (unfortunately for me, I don't particularly like Gaston). Similarly the way cars are used in the story could be sympton of Franquin's boredom. Franquin being a car enthustiast, the fact that Spirou now drives a random Honda (instead of Turbot 2) and the way an even more random old Mercedes is introduced strongly seems to hint at Franquin looking for something - anything - that would interest him more than just drawing another S&F story. Which in case of the actual Panade à Champignac story is a bit of a shame, as the actual story of a former Zorman trying to capture Zorglub and restore him to glory is actually quite interesting as an idea, but the realisation doesn't really reach the full potential of the idea.
In related news, I'm contemplating bara-esque Zorglub fanart. A beefed-up younger Zorglub advertising a protein supplement called Zrubol G... or something along those lines anyway.
Next up will be filling the various holes in the walls and after that finally repainting the walls in something more attractive than mustard and brown.
On a completely unrelated note, the list from my last entry is now out-of-date as I went and bought Il y a un sorcier à Champignac, L'ombre du Z and Panade à Champignac (I had of course read the middle one before, but that was ages ago). I'm not quite sure about Sorcier and Panade though... the former felt still like the series was still very much in development and Franquin hadn't found the final, ideal form for it, while in the latter Franquin seemed bored with Spirou and Fantasio. The extensive usage of Gaston Lagaffe in both of the stories in Panade also seems to indicate this, him being Franquin's original character (unfortunately for me, I don't particularly like Gaston). Similarly the way cars are used in the story could be sympton of Franquin's boredom. Franquin being a car enthustiast, the fact that Spirou now drives a random Honda (instead of Turbot 2) and the way an even more random old Mercedes is introduced strongly seems to hint at Franquin looking for something - anything - that would interest him more than just drawing another S&F story. Which in case of the actual Panade à Champignac story is a bit of a shame, as the actual story of a former Zorman trying to capture Zorglub and restore him to glory is actually quite interesting as an idea, but the realisation doesn't really reach the full potential of the idea.
In related news, I'm contemplating bara-esque Zorglub fanart. A beefed-up younger Zorglub advertising a protein supplement called Zrubol G... or something along those lines anyway.