The Killing Joke - 1. What is your reaction to the text you just read? I know little to nothing about the Marvel/DC superhero universes. I've truly only seen the Tobey Maguire spiderman series on top of random movies here and there. I've also watched Joker 2019. So Joker 2019/Spiderman are the only ones i have any relatively good knowledge of. I feel like both of these pieces of media both go into the reasons as to why they are who they are. The comic goes into more detail since it doesn't have any major restrictions. You almost start to feel bad for the Joker since he was created when he was the most mentaly broken. His wife dies with a baby randomly, the mob tricks him then he falls into radioactive goop that permanently deforms him all in an afternoon. This shift within the batman universe has definitely helped give depth to these normally good or bad heroes especially in this time period. But even with these good bits there is a lot of bad as well. 2. What...
This week I've read Lone wolf and cub by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima . I've constantly seen this manga being recommended to me by many but had never had the chance to read it myself. I normally would like the stories of older men taking care of children and adventuring around. Lone wolf and cub are just like that storyline and I liked it a lot. Normally the child is a tenager and helps with the fighting in a large way. But this one Daigoro, the child, is one years old. I Loved how the one year old would pee on someone to start a duel. Or him throwing a coin at the women fighter to distacter her while Ogami fights. It's such a cute dynamic. I enjoy seeing little Daigoro and what small action he will do to help his father. Now the father or Ogami Itto. Ogami used to be the Kaishakunin of the person who enforces the will of the shogun. I didn't know the details about the details of what a kaishakunin position was before reading into this flashback arc. I...
I really enjoy how detailed yet soft the marksmanship is compared to the comic topic of the hardships of imigration into america. I feel like the environment using a whimsical semi realistic take on his journey to assimilating to america really makes it easier to understand how it feels to be an immigrant at this time period. I also enjoyed how the author used small squares to signify the small actions the main character was taking. The small squares help you focus on small details on the main character that help create more of a story without having to rely on just using facial expressions to tell the story. I also love how any words that would be in english are basically wingdings or a group of random symbols. The one frame i really enjoy is the frame where a person is getting his beard cut and there are a bunch of snails on the ground. All of them have point hats that contrast the rounded shapes of the snails. To me this frame shows how strange it must be for the main characte...
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