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"As soon as he was gone, he was everywhere, regaining a flashy, bewitching agility he hadn't had since the early Eighties when he really was a kind of king," writes Paul Morley in the Observer. "You could take your pick as to which Jackson you want to remember, which version of the monster, or the genius, or the dissolving man behind the mask."
"Michael Jackson was neither a monster nor an extraterrestrial but a mutant," argues French daily Libération. For Holland's NRC Handelsblad, he was more "Slave of Pop" than King, shackled by the showbiz industry, the tabloids and indeed by his audience. The Dutch daily slams the public for having reduced this "great songwriter and showman...to a socially handicapped state."
MJ's fans are on Cristian Tudor Popescu's mind in Romania's Gandul. As members of the "Childrenet", they are a generation that have a greater affinity to cyberspace than their own families and who feel they have lost one of their own. "When someone like Michael Jackson dies," the columnist believes, "we really feel that we are mortal and that tomorrow we also be carried off in a little black hearse."
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