I recently watched “In Time“, that sci-fi movie with Justin Timberlake. The main concept in that movie is that time is the new currency: you don’t pay with money or gold, you pay with a little bit of your lifetime. And I immediately thought, “wait a minute… this reminds me of something…”
I knew exactly when and where I had seen that before: in Mandrake. When I was a kid. In Le Journal de Mickey. Believe it or not, they had exactly the same concept there, in that short story published in 1982.
A trip to my mother’s place and a quick search in the basement revealed the following pages (click on them for larger versions). I have been completely unable to find a trace of this story online - if somebody knows its name or when and where it’s been originally published, please tell me.
July 18th, 2012 at 11:56 am
Yeah, that is typical for the movie industry.
For example, do you know that “Reservoir dogs” is a rip of from “City of Fire”.
They call it inspiration, I call it stealing.
That is my opinion.
September 3rd, 2012 at 5:48 pm
AHAH !
I saw In Time not long ago, and I knew I had read about that in some of our comics when we were young, but I couldn’t put a name on it, thanks for doing it ! BUT, I also remember reading about that kind of stuff in another comic book, can’t remember which one, of course.
Anyway, i’m happy to see this post.
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Olivier Terdiman
October 23rd, 2012 at 1:00 am
Hey why you guys are gone and not making anymore mods for Oni?
November 18th, 2012 at 6:41 am
@Buru David: off-topic, but yeah! very good question! xD You might want to know that Pierre has a little baby now, so it’s useless to say that he’s not going to have much time for that many posts as in the past.