for mrbalihai

[rone]

Add lucha, noir, dream sequences, and fantastic elements, and you get Sonámbulo, a comic book about of a Mexican wrestler who is beaten by mobsters and left for dead; when, decades later, he awakens, he finds that he can see the dreams of others, but cannot sleep. He leaves wrestling, but keeps his mask as he becomes a private detective.

Comments

[erikred.livejournal.com]

That's way cool. Should that be "Somnabulo"?

By the bye, I'm liking Miracle of Science (http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos000.html), but it's a bit slow-going. It'll go faster when I learn to stop reading the annotations at the bottom.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks for the link, i naturally managed to blow away the note i tried leaving on my phone.

And the spelling is correct, although yours is an acceptable variation, according to the Real Academia Española's dictionary (http://buscon.rae.es/diccionario/drae.htm).

[pennyhill.livejournal.com]

"Add lucha..."

Whazzat?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Literally, lucha means 'fight' or 'struggle', but in this case it means 'wrestling', specifically Mexican professional wrestling, where wearing full-face masks is a tradition.

Also see ¡Mucha Lucha! (http://www2.warnerbros.com/lucha/home.html).

[pennyhill.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha. Mascaritas.
Why are "lucha" and "mascaritas" female ("a")?

Right. Luchar. Doi.
Does this meaning extend to the name Lucho? I either subconsciously or inadvertently named a character in my book Lucho. He is a very bad person.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Usually, but not always, 'a' at the end means the word's gender is female.

Lucho is the nickname for Luis. However, i've never heard of a Luisa called Lucha. I have an aunt Lucha, but her name is Luz. As far as strange nicknames go, i'm not sure how Pepe comes out of José (or, analogously, Beppo from Giuseppe).

[sambushell.livejournal.com]

Do you have these? I see that the first three issues are sold out.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I do not. A coworker told me about it.

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

Hah! Thanks for the dedication to Yours Truly. I've seen this comic before, possibly on the Fwak! weblog. I'm definitely going to try and attend an actual Lucha match when I go to LA over Christmas.