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WEEK TEN; Jodorowsky Moebius The Black Incal This story was a welcome change of pace as far as our stories are concerned. We've been delving pretty deeply into stories with real life parallels which have been eye opening don't get me wrong, I personally never realized how heavy comics books could be, and I certainly never realized they could be close to biographical. The Black Incal was a welcome diversion though. It felt like I was reading about a character that would be played by Harrison Ford, bitter, salty, not on any particular side merely out to serve himself. It was fun, really out there, crazy ridiculous, and a lot of fun. The design of the comic was fascinating as well. You look at the first few panels and you think you are set in the seventeen hundreds, next think you know you are falling off of a bridge titled Suicide Bridge, and the further you fall the more you see about the off planet world and just how strange and twisted it is. It was an incredible intro to th

Week Nine; March This story was powerful in a different way than some of the stories we've read over this semester. While Maus was powerful, since it had all of it's characters depicted as animals, you as the reader were able to disconnect to a certain degree because it felt like you were reading a fairy tale. This is gave Maus it's power because it was made more palatable to a wider audience. March didn't have the buffer layer of design. This story, even though Maus had the harsher subject matter, felt much more raw and real because of it's truer to life and real person design. Perhaps it had something to do with the recentness of the events with took place in March too. We see clothing, cars, homes, familiar faces and places and this makes us more comfortable and open to what the we are seeing on the page. As for what happens in the tale its self we are confronted with a subject matter which almost completely mirrors what is going on now to a degree. Perhaps no