Antonio's lit and media of comics blog

Week 14 This week I read the Perry Bible Fellowship, and It was a fun read. I read a lot of webcomics such as owl turd, and it very much radiated the same energy. It required not a lot of thought process, the humor was very clever, and they were really quick reads. It saddens me to say this, but in our society of ever-shortening attention spans, people just don’t have the patience anymore to read epic comics like Bones, Marvel, and Manga. People want their entertainment instantly, and if they have to read something lengthy, and they aren’t immediately laughing then they are very quick to pass it by. It sucks that that is the reason they have a place, but for the sake of webcomics, I only see them increasing in popularity. However, even though I presented a big negative, it's not all bad. What's kind of fun about this style of comics is that anyone can make them, so you do not have to be the best artist. And sometimes, the shittier the drawing the funnier it is. So now, as

Assessment Blog: I’ve read the Killing joke before, so, unfortunately, I cannot have a genuine reaction of shock or excitement. I will say that the text holds up really well, and in fact, I feel like in a way, it got better the second time I read it. My overarching reaction was just how well structured the story was, because it cuts so cleanly between the past and the present Joker due to parallelisms of his life of crime. To me, it was also interesting how we all know Joker as this iconic villain, but yet we can not help but feel sorry for him because we know what he has been through. I’m not justifying him doing all the shitty things he has done, but it does bring some enlightenment to his entire situation. Alan Moore does a brilliant job of depicting the iconic villain in a way that makes them more human, so we as readers can identify with. It is kind of weird to say, but I was able to connect with the Joker, and really empathize with how he felt in his earlier life. The idea o

Week 13:  So, this week I had the privilege of reading Arkham Asylum and First off, great read. I could talk about all the aspects that I think make this reading so objectively successful. But, honestly, I'm going to start with the common trend of my blog posts and stick with panel orientation and page layout. It’s not because I’m incapable of any other type of analysis. But, because every week I’ve been trying to choose stories that specifically can only be told by the paper medium in order to reinforce my support for the medium. Anyways, Arkham Asylum once again is a piece that is, in my opinion, only optimally successful if it is absorbed in a paper medium. So, the panel orientation is confusing as fuck, however, they are purposefully like that. From my interpretation, the reading attempts to simulate you going mad and crazy. You are supposed to experience it as if you were going through the asylum going mad and crazy. The orientation of the panels and the dark confusing pain

Week 12:  T his week I read My Favorite Things is Monsters, and I liked it a lot. Immediately, I noticed the interesting way it was drawn. It was drawn on a background that looks like a spiral notebook, and the drawings appeared to have been done in a ballpoint pen. In my opinion, these were really strong stylistic choices because it makes the reading come off as if it were someone’s journal. Because it felt like we were reading someone's journal, it creates this false sense of reality where I felt like I was snooping on juicy secrets, which made it easier to be immersed in the reading. This is a prime example where there is no other medium that can execute this piece to this level. For example, if this were a film, we wouldn’t get that feeling of us reading someone else's personal secrets. We would probably be watching a flashback of those moments, so again, very effective use of the medium. The other thing I noticed, which was very interesting, was the fact that the h