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“Post–Ostalgie 'Retro' in Graupner and Wüstefeld’s Das UPgrade, at Retro! Time, Memory, Nostalgia: The Ninth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference 2018, Bournemouth, UK, Thursday, June 28, 2018

 

Das UPgrade is a projected ten-volume series—now three volumes in—about the only superhero of the now-defunct German Democratic Republic. Ronny Knäusel is born in Dresden in 1967; thanks to alien intervention five millennia ago, an experimental GDR fertility pill, and an American surf-rock song playing on the radio, Ronny can teleport himself and others—but only when he hears the Beach Lords' hit "Palms in Sorrow." As a young man, he uses his ability...

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