#weird detective

[the-bellmont]

“Greetings Lesbians”—Weird Detective (2016)

[mbharestuff]

thinking about Weird Detective fiction. Twin Peaks, Disco Elysium, Umineko, Life on Mars. in a postmodern world of information saturation, being a detective means clinging to reality.

[theartofthecover]

Weird Detective #5 (2016)

Art by: Guiu Vilanova and Maurício Wallace

[alternateworldcomics]

Amusing 2016 horror series Weird Detective from Dark Horse, scripts by Fred Van Lente, art by Guiu Vilanova.

It’s sort of what if J'onn J'onzz Manhunter from Mars had been created by the writing team of H. P. Lovecraft and Ed McBain.

[thefailurecult]

[otakunoculture]

The Lightest Darkness, An Exercise in Neo-Noir

Looking for a mystery? The Lightest Darkness is a Russian made film by Diana Galimzyanova certainly caught my eye. #detective #neonoir It also has a Canadian side distributor!

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By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)

To say The Lightest Darkness is inspired by film noir is an understatement. To connect it with the styling of Franz Kafka is perhaps just as surreal. Whichever the case, the neo-modernist stylings of this Russian made film make the feelings of being entrapped certainly notable. Two suspects (or is that three) are eyed; Private Investigator Musin (

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[theartofthecover]

Weird Detective #4

Art by: Guiu Vilanova and Maurício Wallace

[mbharestuff]

Life on Mars is an especially interesting example of the ways "weird detective" media can overlap with copaganda, in that the show simultaneously grapples with social issues and police corruption while framing it as problems that have been mostly solved In The Future.