Les Nombrils at 20

  

The very existence of Les Nombrils stays a mystery. It looks to be something that went made for a joke from some cartoon nerds in their basement by waiting too many years to get out. When this very "dismal" (Yeah! I still hate it) series own twenty years this month, and when the origins of all this came from their first official appearences on the old humor magazine Safarir, it became later a Dupuis property. Anyway, you have very unlikable characters does despicable things just for be edgy and cool, at a time when be "edgy" has worn already its welcome, in the mid-00s.

Over the years, I getting tons of flaks by social media and anywhere else of my hatred from what made me thinking of something that came like a Cartoon Network reject. My opinions towards are more aesthetic than mere hate. It was a combnination of everything I learning through schools, life and home, on a very vulnerable time that is adolescence, and then, when you seen pretty and mean girls doing stupid things for no reason at all, I want to says "GUYS! WE'RE NO MORE IN THE 40S ANYMORE!". Even Child Molestor creator John Krickfalusi, by his many ramblings from cartoons that don't stick his mind, would vomiting by looking anything from this.

Like with Lou! released the same month, Les Nombrils is not free of a very erratic and awkward sense of dialogues, something that came out that it's a middle-age man and his wife (Delaf and Dubuc) who have wrote this for make them young, except that it's hard to be related to girls characters who only been opportunistic and flattening their self-centered ego. And anyway, how's this can pass to Dupuis, a comic book editor label that have to release stories for childrens and pre-teens?

Just for says that something that came out adult don't meant that it's mature. It's the same mistake from too many stuffs that are labelled at "adult material" like anything from Ralph Bakshi to Family Guy. When the series finally reached its line in the end-10s, we could finally own a sigh of relief. Because 15 years of nothing, but Porn Humor only deteriorate what the artform need to stays entertaining and intuitive to youths.

In this Post-Nombrils time, things went a little more normal, except the Manga and Netflix popularity only revealed us the reality that the artform of made comics is eventually done for a very old audience, whether the age or gender it seems. While Delaf (or Marc Lafontaine. Why he can't just sign by his own name?) now took his reigns to the Gaston Lagaffe reboot, he has made big time with these characters, merchandising including, but actually, it's a footnote to the involvement of Francophonie comic like a real, serious artform. Here, you read this, not for mere laughs, but to think yourself "What the hell do I reading?".

And thankfully for us, these creepy Teletoon take-offs never will own an Generational book like Lou! will ever have!