To me, the greatest mark of success in a collaborative work is when each piece is able stand out without the others. With the writer-artist teams behind Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, I think we witnessed that success. With many earlier comics, though, I feel like the final visions were not fully achieved in..
Author: sclement
One line that really stuck out to me in Watchmen was when Rorschach is captured and imprisoned for the murder of Moloch. As the arresting police officers rip off his mask, he screams, “No! My face! Give it back!” (page 172, row 3, panel 1). Rorschach seems to identify more with his superhero identity than..
Something I noticed while reading Batman was the frequent use of puns and wordplay. This gimmicky element of the writing made the comics feel very innocent and childish. I know we read some of this style in other early comics such as Superman and X-Men, but here it felt like a lot more intrinsic part..
Stephen Clement, Daniel Berrick, Ona Griffin
When reading Good-Bye, I noticed that Tatsumi uses water in two different ways: one to represent pain and anxiety, and the other to represent redemption. As we discussed a bit in class today, the rain in the first story, Hell, helps set its dreary mood in the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It..
As we saw in Tintin, the bande dessinée art style in Adèle Blanc-Sec depicts characters’ bodies and faces in close detail. Something I noticed more this time, though, was how some characters are portrayed right from our introduction to them, which gives us an understanding of who they are before we really know how they..
One thing I noticed while reading X-Men, especially the second of the two early issues, was that scenes detailing a lot of action seem to disregard the concepts of time and space. On page 204, for instance, everything in the large semi-splash panel looked like it was occurring simultaneously. I couldn’t figure out if there..
During our trip to the library on Monday, I was surprised by how easily I understood certain political editorial cartoons and how unclear others were. I think that a lot of the power of such cartoons lies in knowledge held beforehand. For example, for one Puck cartoon about political corruption and fragmented parties, I was able to..