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Week Fifteen; Calvin and Hobbes This little comic is so captivating. It's funny, innocent, clever, witty, intelligent, fast pace you can look at the strip for sixty seconds, reread the whole strip and leave in a better mood. I especially love how defined the two worlds are between the adults and Calvin. He is obviously a child with child like thought processes and the adults have their reasons as adults usually do, but unlike most depictions of children Calvin is actually very intelligent in an adult manner. The questions he asks, the thoughts he wrestles with, and just the realization and understanding that yes he has these questions but he doesn't always have the mental capacity or life experience to answer those questions. Where that would drive a lot of us crazy he is ok with the little answers he is capable of conjuring and since no one is able to answer him or thinks he's beneath knowing the answers that's where he is content to stay. I love too how wild his min

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