Bommel Radioplay Ends
Better late than never. I had fallen behind with listening to the Bommel radioplay a bit, so this weekend I spent some time catching up and I was a little saddened by the fact that the last episode was aired March 27th of this year.
Of course the podcasts are still available and that’s a good thing, because damn it, I have grown to love the stories of Olivier B. Bommel and Tom Poes. I was never really a big fan of the comic strip as it appeared in newspapers. I tried reading it but at the time I didn’t appreciate it. I read two or so of the comic books later but they didn’t work for me. More recently I’ve taken another look at the concept of text below the drawn panels (old example). It has its charms!
And what the audioplay did for me was make the stories accessible after I had discarded them in my mind back when I couldn’t appreciate them. I was used to Disney stuff no doubt! How foolish…!
All in all, I’ll enjoy these audioplays for quite some time still, but no more new stories for now. A shame.