The fourth focuses on the highly-read but now defunct Poompatta magazine by Pai & Co, which had its golden run from 1979-89. The third episode comprises the Phantom comics, along with Mandrake and Flash Gordon. Other detective comics such as CID Nazeer and CID Madhu form the epicentre of the upcoming second episode, with crime fiction as the major theme. Joshy Benedict(Bose Thomas, son of Toms and CEO of Toms comics)Īrun Prasad, Vineeth Abraham, Aroon Kalandy, Narayan Radhakrishnan(Comic collectors and enthusiasts) Venu Variath(former Poompatta subeditor and Balabhoomi editor) R Gopalakrishnan(former Poompatta editor) They were extremely cordial and spoke volumes about their work, despite barely having any records of the same,” says Tony. He wasn’t perturbed by the fact that the current generation didn’t know him. “He was a tailor by day, and a comic artist by night. The first episode features Kannadi Vishwanathan, creator of the CID Moosa comics. Many of us didn’t know about the comic character just its successor played by Dileep in the 2003 movie,” says Tony, who is the director of the series. Narayan had done an interview with the creator years ago. I happened to meet Narayan Radhakrishnan, an advocate and avid collector of comics in Thiruvananthapuram, who mentioned the detective character ‘CID Moosa’. Regal Publishers had informed us that they were planning a reprint of older comics. Even though the library closed down, the Comic Collective community grew. Our library comprised older collections and we conducted events including the Indie Comic Fest. “I had started a comic library in Kochi a few years ago with San Ramshanker out of pure enthusiasm for comics and graphic novels. Co-created by Tony Davis and Sreeram K V, the travelogue, possibly the first of its kind in the state, is an eyeopener to those who’ve been influenced by the comic genre. To celebrate them and comic collectors in the state who have painstakingly preserved comic strips and magazines, Comic Collective has launched its first episode of the eight-part documentary ‘Kadha Vara Kadhakal’, a travelogue that traces Malayalam comic history and its impact through many interviews with the pioneers of comic culture in Kerala. Malayalam comics had an enormous influence on an entire generation that loved the comics as a primary medium of entertainment.įast forward to now and several of these creators who shaped Malayalam comic culture are almost forgotten. Mayavi, the tooth fairy, was a favourite in the 80s with his saviour spirit. Being able to play with that duality as an actor? Oh my God! I got to have so much fun on set every day.If Kerala’s detective genre comics ‘CID Moosa’ by Kannadi Viswanathan won the minds of 70s readers, characters Boban and Molly won their hearts. Finding the differences between the Flash and Impulse is, contextually, a very different layer than finding the differences and similarities between Bart and his father. That was something my version of Bart specifically set out to do so that he wasn't like Barry. No one can figure out what he's going to do, which I think is what makes him as cool as he is. He does everything based off of instinct. I think that Barry is a little more calculated, whereas Bart specifically is not a calculative person. "Or if I have to kick this guy over the head, how can I do that and look like Jackie Chan at the same time?" That's Bart, and I think that is so relatable.
But Bart wants to be cool, wants to figure out what would be the coolest way to enter into a fight. I think my version of Bart going into this was, "What would Bart do?" He would probably take some of the cool things that his dad did, but he probably doesn't think that everything his dad does is cool. You know when you have superpowers in your dreams or what have you, when you're just having fun, that is what I imagine Bart would be like in real life. He's like, "Watch this real quick!" and then jumps off the wall and flips in the air and does parkour. When you watch Impulse fight, he's laughing and smiling and cracking jokes. He knows that he is so cool! He knows what he can do is awesome, and he has fun with it. The fact that this dude is one of the fastest people in the history of mankind and can do all these really, really cool things and he's as young as he is.
I think that his compassion, his love, his heart for his family, how much fun he has being a superhero - that's the thing that's probably so relatable, that you can really sink your teeth into. I think his impulsivity is something people either have in spades or wish they had more of. I think that there's so much real-life, actual humanity in Bart that we can all relate to. What I found, honestly, is that Impulse is 1,000 percent one of my all-time favorite superheroes.