When I was a kid (born in the mid 80s), I often consumed old media without knowing it was old media, that is, media that was already old by the time I was consuming it, but that to me was just something that was around. This of course led to some dramatic mental reframing whenever I became aware of the actual chronology of things involved — eg, suddenly realizing that two Disney animated films I thought of in the same breath had actually been made 40 years apart from each other. One such important example is the French-language comic series Spirou & Fantasio, notably the run of the comic made by André Franquin. I didn't quite realize at first that the reason I had access to those comics is because they were my father's comics, which he read as a child, as these stories had been drawn, serialized and eventually published in collected book form between 1946 and 1968. Because those were mostly family-friendly pulp adventure stories set in the here and now but not overtly grounded, often featuring weird inventions and light science-fiction elements, this didn't feel too distant; from a 1980s perspective, the dated car designs or the conspicuous absence of personal computers or cellphones wasn't something I had picked on — the one odd old-timey detail here and there (like a character using a lightbulb socket hanging from the ceiling as an electric socket to power a different appliance instead) were easily rationalized as oddities from a specific character or situation, rather than as Something People Did in the Past. Now the thing is, a bit later on, as a teenager, I got to read the run of the comic made by Tome and Janry, which differed significantly in tone from that Franquin —it was still within the realm of what is considered acceptable family friendliness in western Europe, but it was noticeably hornier, with more risqué humor and more adult themes in general. So I had internalized this as a contrast as the modern Spirou stories, the edgy stuff for the current age. Except it only sort of was: Tome and Janry's run was from 1982 to 1998. While their last stories were indeed coming out as I was reading them, their earlier ones were nearly a decade and half old when I first came across them. One such story notably was Qui arrêtera Cyanure ? (Who Will Stop Cyanid?). In this story, the protagonist are confronted with a female-presenting android, self-named Cyanure, who was created by a lonely inventor to be his ideal companion —but instead she turns evil and destructive, and what more, she can "infect" other robots and electric appliances and take control of them, with which she proceeds to start a tiny robot uprising, which our heroes have to nip in the bud before it becomes unstoppable. Now the thing is, when I read that story I was like "well this is obviously inspired by the Terminator films". Except today, I finally checked the original date of serialization. That story was first published: September 1983 to February 1984. The first Terminator film only came out in October 1984. Mind blown. There are two other fun things about that story. The first is when they compiled it in book form, they made the cover as a homage to the poster for the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only: