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<DIV><SPAN class=187355807-07062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Fabio
and Frank gave very accurate descriptions why Franquins Marsupilami is so much
better than the Disney version. The Marsupilami looks like a cuddly pet but eats
living piranhas, it is innocent and childlike but a fierce fighter, it can use
it's enormously long tail to pick fruits and also to knock out tigers, it is a
loving father and husband and a relentless enemy, it is hurt if its wife is
angry at him but cannot be hurt by a mad rhinoceros. This is funny and
quite serious at the same time which does not contradict but fits perfectly
together. I think that is one of the major characteristics of Franquins work
(more obvious in his later works), which might be called an equivalent of a
crying clown - funny and sad simultaneously. Take away one side - and you
get a one-sided character.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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