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Week Fifteen; Whiteout This was a fascinating comic. I opened it just to see what it was but as I started reading it I became more and more engrossed. Even about half way through I still wasn't entirely sure what was going on. The author really keeps you lost up until the very end of the story which is really quite an interesting way of telling the narrative. The characters are by no means perfect and even our main character is deeply flawed with her own secrets and her own past. This is refreshing in a world that loves having a highly perfect hero and a devilish villain. What was really interesting about this comic book was how much it reminded me of the classic Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mystery stories. I think the only difference is how violent and graphic(pun fully intended hehe) the comics were in comparison. It was fun, enthralling, entertaining, engaging, and suspenseful.

Week Fifteen; Superman Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Reading this comic was entertaining is so many ways. Superman is the stereotypical perfect ideal hero. He can only be harmed by a select few elements that don't really exist on earth making him near immortal, he is the perfect moral human, doesn't kill, tries to be all that's good in the world in one individual. Honestly this makes him almost agitating as a personality. Get the stick out of your butt for heavens sake!!! He is a very unrelatable character, and in today's age he is almost undesirable because very few people want to be that perfect. I think though that he remains an icon because if you don't want to be Superman as a whole then you can definitely take him as a grain of salt. You want to be honest, he's got you. You want to be dependable, he's got you. You want to be brave, he's got you. This story is interesting because it forces Superman to become everything he didn't wa

1) What is your reaction to the text you just read? To be honest I don't think I've ever read anything so dark before. I think the best way to describe it is there is a little knot in my stomach. Batman is my favorite male super hero and the Joker my favorite male villain, and to see this version of them was unnerving. Honestly I'm not entirely certain why either, it's not like they were doing anything out of the ordinary. 2) What connections did you make with the story? Discuss the elements of the story with which you were able to connect. They were having the same struggle they always have "Do we kill each other? If so who pulls the trigger first, and is that even necessary?"  so it's not like there was anything earth shatteringly disturbing about it. I think the way Allen wrote it and the way the artist drew it adds to the punch of the comic. You have some really beautiful transitions between "scenes" flash backs and such. It's a v

I've been looking forward to this week all semester. I wasn't permitted to grow up reading comic books so this week was exciting. When I looked at the list Black Panther stuck out because of the recently released movie. I don't know much about the comic books themself or the story that they follow but I was excited to dip my toes in here. The introduction was short, to the point, very concise. within a page or two they had explained the entire struggle, what happened until now, and what the plan was to try to resolve it. The villain was intriguing, you couldn't quite take her seriously simply because of how outlandish her ability is pull out hatred. Strange ability, not at all realistic, but at the same time where you can't quite take her seriously, the weight is reinforced by Te-Chala's struggles. He is trying to be a good king, he has lost his sister, and feels like he is loosing his footing, his home, his family, and you feel as truly lost as he is. It felt g

Week Eleven; WHY I HATE SATURN This comic is something interesting. While a lot of the comics we’ve read have been very emotion in a deeper way dealing with love and loss, or just down right humorous in other cases, this comic was more just a simple relational piece with a great deal of conversation between the characters. It was pessimistic, EXTREMELY negative, and yet, through these features and use of our langue very very relatable. I think we have all sat in a restaurant and silently, or vocally judged passers by who we feel are superior to us. Very amusing, and real.

This story was quite interesting.you felt very confused while reading it because it felt like you were watching something in someone’s dream or in outer space but never really sure where or with whom you were. As you continue to read the sense of characters and their connection becomes a bit more clear. There is always a man and a women, and they seem to meet back at this tree but the tree continues to die and be reborn and so do the couple. Each new body and face they appear in is new and in a new age over and over again. But they always come together in whatever life or form they take and they are bound together by a wedding ring which they draw a great amount of attention to no matter the life they enter. You have a real sense of a fast pass, a fleetingness if you will, they are always running out of time together and each life is spent loving each other and trying to survive long enough to continue to love each other. It’s frantic and desperate in its search for a way to live. It’