This is the first final page of THE FORMIDABLES short story. Art and color by Stephane Oiry.

HERCULES AND THE CAPTIVE WOMAN (1961) is another Sword & Sandal masterpiece. You need a piece of evidence ? It was edited in France on DVD by Jean-Pierre Dionnet, who runned a small label called CINÉMA DE QUARTIER. Jean-Pierre Dionnet is one of the best pop culture specialist and an emperor of good taste. One more time don’t listen to the stupid people who will tell you that it is a bad bad movie! The Queen of Atlantis is gorgeous and the pictures are fabulous. And the whole story is a fable about the atomic menace…

HERCULES AGAINST THE MOON MEN (1964) is a masterpiece. Don’t believe the people who tell you that it is a very bad movie… It’s not true! This Sword and Sandal movie has sci-fi elements, and it is quite unusual. It also mixes different mythologies, from Ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt. It is an Italian/French coproduction and it was made during the Golden Sixties, in a time where European cinema was strong… Buy it! For a review, please see wikipedia.