There is a legit problem with organized crime and gang affiliations with predominantly immigrant leadership that recruit children for hits and are difficult to bring down.

Ah yes, thanks, I do recall reading about that, but wasn’t sure if that was in Sweden or other Nordic nation. (or all of them to some extent, perhaps?)

As for the rest; it’s remarkable (and very sad) how SWE seems to be sharing that broken approach to immigrants, as with USA. Just that it’s not as completely insane there, at this point.

Edit: lemvotes.org, linked below by another comment.

Aw, shoot. It doesn’t seem to work for PieFed. For example, here’s a link straight to the original instance and thread: https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/1701717/

Changing that “p” to “post” didn’t seem to work, either.

Wait, there’s an actual NAZI party in Sweden? oO

Chariot race from "The Eagles of Rome" T2

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-16560-BD-Aigles-de-Rome.html

Super-impressive job on this series by Swiss-Italian writer-artist Enrico Marini. As a bonus for reading this far, here’s three more half-pages, with a short introduction: (3rd pic is NSFW)

https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/1701717/three-splash-pages-from-the-eagles-of-rome-series-nsfw-3rd-image

If immigration is down in recent years, what then is the point of all this? Just for right-wingers to make political hay?

Haha, Steve’s sort of in that ‘Frank Burns from M*A*S*H’ realm. Even when he’s not in the room, you can smell his jackassery somewhere nearby. :P

Oh-ho, Dream Weasel
I believe you can get me through the night…
Ooh-ooh, Dream Weasel
I believe we can reach the morning light…

Haha…

Haha, qu’est-ce que tu as ? J’adore les jeux.

Thanks to you both, @zer0_f0x@lemmy.world and @gordonzhang@sh.itjust.works! These photos make a person think… and then keep thinking! :S

Here’s a little song for you both, if that works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_gsctWHtQ

Sorry, my French is terrible. You’re asking what fun we had last week, is that correct?

Well, to start the game, I really like this Swiss singer, Charline Mignot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTx7Skm30uQ

Sunday Supplemental: when in doubt, put on your pith helmet, whilst clutching a can of crab meat and a totem. Knife to support your 2A rights, and a wire-fox terrier to round out the look. (Loisel)

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/loisel.htm

Always fun to see famous artists do little tributes like this.

Thanks for taking this project on, OP. I love TOS, so you’re doing the cosmos’ work!

In the Kelvin movies, Uhura got her start on the Enterprise working down below, and was moved to the bridge in a moment of crisis…

No idea what that “Kelvin” stuff is about, but I mostly stopped watching ST after the… 5th series, I guess ("Voyager"). I did kinda get in to a very recent one, with either Cpt. Pike or April, which seemed really good, but I believe it got cancelled early?

…Not a very good story (one of the first scripts Gene penned), but a competent telling of it, and a good, solid message that is still relevant today.

Appreciate your analysis, and pretty much agree. This series was trying to do things never quite seen before, so it’s completely unsurprising that there would be some relative clunkers. That said, Carmel was brilliant as Mudd, and I’m so glad they kept him, as he went on to do the ‘android’ ep and even a TAS ep, far as I recall.

They should recognise Steve Dallas’ car by now!

Thanks for the extensive reply! Yeah, I’m one of those weirdos who loved the Silmarillion, even as a teenager. I guess I’ve read it about 4x over the years, and I generally found it way more rational and absorbing than something like Le Morte d’Arthur.

Trying to cover the whole book seems insane to me, but as mentioned above, I feel like major stories and chapters could very easily be turned in to some kind of effective adaptation. They more or less stand alone, compared to the brutal, endless slog of the overall elves against Morgoth arcs.

The time seems (and has seemed) really ripe for such stories to be told, that I hope the Estate can move forward in some useful way upon such stuff. That said, I can very much understand their unhappiness with Jackson’s TLotR movies, which were good, but way too ‘Hollywood’ for my taste across various scenes. I actually enjoyed the ‘making of’ mini-movies in the deluxe set far more than the movies themselves…

Three splash pages from "The Eagles of Rome" series [NSFW 3rd image]

After having gloriously annexed the Alps region with his brother Tiberius, Drusus was sent to Germania. His father-in-law, the emperor Augustus, had given him a difficult task: to defeat the barbarian tribes, and explore their unknown territories. About which, the most horrible legends circulated in Rome.

Three years of fierce campaigns followed, until the day the Sicambri, the Tencteri, the Usipetes, and the Cherusci were defeated by Drusus’ legions.

(right-click as needed)

Above we see young Germanic princes and nobles being offered to the Romans in order to ensure the tribes’ allegiances. These hostages would be well-treated, and helped to seal a permanent alliance, in which Germanic troops would serve in Roman armies.

After some years living in the empire and undergoing rigorous war training, the two lead characters have reached adolescence, and are now exploring some of the more colorful areas of Rome.

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-16560-BD-Aigles-de-Rome.html

Oh yeah, this is one of my favorite Euro comics series dealing with ancient Rome and related matters. Incredibly, it was fully conceived and drawn by artist-writer, Swiss-Italian Enrico Marini.

It’s also a very small ‘thank you’ to @PugJesus@piefed.social for all the amazing, tireless sharing of history media. If there’s interest, I can try to upload more of these as I catch up with this classic series…

Okay, I see, but… is there some reason they wouldn’t be open to the idea of doing Silmarillion stories?

languages that lack a set of rules to correctly pronounce every word ever are mental illnesses.

Yeah, I don’t know enough about French grammar and pronunciation rules, but I think part of the problem comes from them trying to maintain a written language that got left in the dust by the spoken language ages ago. So instead of updating the written one, they chose to ‘preserve history’ and add a landslide of little rules explaining separate cases, not just for pronunciation, but in a hugely systemic way. Native French-speakers have actually complained to me about that occasionally.

I could give you any Spanish word you don’t know and you wouldn’t miss pronounce it.

I love that about Castellano, just that some regions speed it up so much that I can barely catch it.

Pélisse discovers some new friends (Regis Loisel)

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-5-BD-Quete-de-l-oiseau-du-temps.html

She’s known as “Roxanne” in English versions.

"Oh no, not again!"

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-500-BD-Blacksad.html

Blaksad is one of the most beloved series in modern BD, bursting to life with gorgeous art, and fun versions of classic noir detective tales. The poster above is titled “Red Buick.”

That beard is boss!