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Broadly correct. Franquin was a grassroots leftist by his peak in the '70s and even now a lot of his comics would generate a lot of "Gaston goes woke???" youtube thumbnails. His comics included a lot of overt anticapitalist & ecologist messaging in particular. Idées Noires (apparently reedited as "Die Laughing" in English) has his most politically charged stuff and is what happened when Franquin didn't try to draw for mass appeal:    I did however find some [racist colonial stuff](https://www.bfmtv.com/people/bandes-dessinees/accusations-de-racisme-pourquoi-les-aventures-de-spirou-sont-si-longtemps-passees-sous-les-radars_AN-202411050418.html) from his very early works (1950). I won't like, it's quite bad. However the 1950 stuff is ignorant & insensitive racist colonial fuckery from a then 26 year old author who later denounced it and tried to make up for it, while the 2023 stuff is very intentional dogwhistling to modern day racists from boomers who should really know better. It's unfathomable that Dupuis would have greenlighted such backwards stuff in the modern age.

There is, though I can't tell you how fun it is because I haven't played it and never cared for the original games' battle system.

Not a very hot take, only corpo bootlickers pretend that Nintendo isn't squandering the franchise. It's supremely frustrating that franchises like these get enshittified to hell and there's fuck-all anyone can do about it if they are not willing to work completely for free. Same with the Star Wars content mill which also went to shit while we're forced to watch. Or LoTR which in the past 20 years only gave us The Hobbit (🤮) and the Amazon show (🤮🤮). Human stories were meant to be evolved and expanded on; that's how all of our ancestors built a rich tapestry of myths and folklore over generations, constantly retelling and updating stories. But we aren't allowed to. I'm Belgian. My grandparents, my parents, my cousins and my cousin's children all grew up reading Belgian comics such as Tintin, Spirou&Fantasio, Lucky Luke, the Smurfs, etc, which were written in the mid-20th century. Yet if any of them publishes anything set in those universes they'll get sued into the ground, so instead these important cultural works are left to rot and wither and be slowly forgotten by each subsequent generation while the Estate shits out a soulless ([if not outright racist and sexist which shits on everything that Franquin ever stood for](https://www.belganewsagency.eu/dupuis-halts-sales-of-spirou-comic-album-after-criticism-of-racism-and-sexism)) reboot that no-one cares about every 15 years or so. Such a sad end for such important cultural landmarks that used to be the pride of our country. Copyright should last 25 years, just like patents. That's more than enough time to recoup your initial investment and doesn't prevent you from making money after then, you'll just have to compete for it on the marketplace of ideas. Isn't that what capitalists *should* want?

 Cobblemon is a pokémon mod for minecraft, and definitely has a charm to it and fits weirdly well into the minecraft-pixel-art-with-shaders esthetic IMO. Plus the "gotta catch em all" basic gameplay loop meshes well with Minecraft's incentive to explore the world. Of course it's a free mod so it's a bit rough around the edges and there doesn't seem to be much to do beyond collect pokémon and build minecraft houses, but in my online circles it certainly has captured a lot more attention than any pokémon game released in the last forever. I would like to think Nintendo is taking notes, but we all know they Don't Give A Fuck. They'll pump out any asset flip and people will buy it because they're nostalgic and Nintendo has a legally enforced monopoly on the franchise.