“The Internet User,” Netflix successfully adapts a landmark of Argentine comics
The series based on the legendary Argentinian comic book "The Eternaut" was released on Netflix on April 30th. The adaptation of this landmark of science fiction literature was highly anticipated in its home country. It did not disappoint the press, who hailed it as a challenge met and an updated version of the post-apocalyptic tale.
“Is it possible?” This question, which concludes the country’s most famous comic strip, is running through the Argentine press. “Is it possible to turn Héctor Oesterheld’s classic work [translated into French by Vertige Graphic] into a film or series that captures its narrative ambition, philosophical depth, ethical dilemmas, and technological complexity?” asks the website Micropsiacine .
Since its release in 1957, many producers, directors and screenwriters have struggled with this project, as the daily Página 12 recalls . The latter even calls it an “odyssey” : “The desire to adapt this work, during all this time, has been unattainable. From the 1960s, when several cartoon projects were hatched, to the numerous attempts in Argentine and international cinema, the franchise of The Eternaut has represented a technical and creative challenge.”
Expectations for this adaptation were commensurate with these difficulties, and with the cult that is devoted to the comic in Argentina. It is the story of an alien invasion in Buenos Aires and the resistance of a handful of Argentines, led by the emblematic character of Juan Salvo, who becomes
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