Topic: A Comic Book Camera Hero.

[charles binns]

I came across this during some random interweb surfing this evening.  An American comic book about photographers from way back when.  I found the article on a Spanish Website so whilst the words are in Spanish, the pictures are in English.  It is just the sort of comic book I would have read when I were a lad - young photographers defeating Nazi spies and all that.

http://www.elhype.com/es/pulp-fiction

[AJShepherd]

On a slight tangent, has anyone read "The Photographer"?
It's the story of Didier Lefevre's journey through Afghanistan with MSF during the Russian occupation in the eighties.
While the story itself is told as a graphic novel, the photographs are the real photographs.

Not an easy read because of the subject matter, but might interest other filmwasters.

[Francois]

You can find the issues on the Digital Comic Book Museum
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=659

And there's a lot of other odd stuff that differs from the DC vs. Marvel world we live in.

[jharr]

Peter Parker was a freelance photojournalist. Okay, he specialized in selfies and uses a GSN, but at least he's a filmwaster...

[Jack Johnson]

Peter Parker was a freelance photojournalist. Okay, he specialized in selfies and uses a GSN, but at least he's a filmwaster...

I remember noticing that, and wondering why he used a GSN. Dad's old camera? Flaking leatherette doesn't get stuck to his hands? It was the camera he could afford at the second-hand store?

[Ed Wenn]

Jack, I do believe we've seen that comic book photographer linked to here in years gone by, but just not in Spanish. They're great, aren't they.

And what's wrong with a GSN? 

[Francois]

Apart from the pod, nothing.

[SLVR]

some could argue size as well.

[Jack Johnson]

I have nothing against it as a camera, but because we're talking about the d!g!t@1 age for the 2012 movie it seems like a strange prop choice to go with a film camera. The camera is a plot element, but it doesn't seem to speak specifically to either the plot or to the character, at least in the movie.

I did some Googling and someone else noted that Tobey Maguire was using a Canon F-1 in the 2002 movie, so same deal.

Is anyone a fan? Maybe Peter Parker is a Filmwaster.

[Late Developer]

The one that made me laugh out loud was the "insurance investigator" one. Who, in their right mind, would create an action comic hero around the role of "insurance investigator"? (....and I say that as someone who has worked in the insurance profession since 1979  )

As Hollyweird is trawling up all the comic book characters and turning them into movies (sometimes for the umpteenth time over) I can definitely wait for this one to hit my local cinema. 

[Francois]

Well, you never know what mystery might lurk inside a sewer backup

[charles binns]

The one that made me laugh out loud was the "insurance investigator" one. Who, in their right mind, would create an action comic hero around the role of "insurance investigator"? (....and I say that as someone who has worked in the insurance profession since 1979  )

As Hollyweird is trawling up all the comic book characters and turning them into movies (sometimes for the umpteenth time over) I can definitely wait for this one to hit my local cinema.

I don't know Paul.  Some of the ones I use have some interesting tales to tell.  Mind you I wouldn't describe any of them as being comic book heroes.