Sydnie's Blog

While I was reading  Batman the Killing Joke  my main reaction was a lot of empathy for the Joker to be honest. I never really got into superhero comics when I was younger and had only seen glimpses of movies my older brother would watch about them but I had never seen or heard of the backstory of the Joker or how his whole criminal career began with Batman. I ended up needing more time than everyone else to read because I was trying to soak in the images but also the words because they felt really important to the story and I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything I could use to make connections in different parts of the storyline. I really enjoyed the visuals and how the flashbacks were in black and white and how easily you could distinguish characters even with their younger selves. I think Joker's backstory is really sad and he was just trying to give his significant other and their child a fighting chance for a better life. A life he thought they deserved... Who doesn

For this week's blog post, I read  Astro City  Volume #4. I've never really gotten into super hero comics and I still don't think they're my favorite if I'm being honest. I'm not really sure why I don't like them that much I think it's just that I prefer other types of comics whether that's more love story comics or more humorous comics. I liked reading this comic but since I read "She-Hulk" last week it was hard not to make comparisons. I think one thing that bugged me was that the cover depicts this strong, female hero and then in the end the main character gets saved by who? A man. Of course.. I would've LOVED to have seen a female hero see that creep basically insinuating that he's going to rape this lady and just beat him to a pulp buttttttt that's just me. I did like how the females in this comic were drawn and how some had very distinct facial features and that there was a range when it came to race represented in this c

For this week's blog post, I read some of the "She-Hulk" comics along with some of the comics we were reading from in class but for this post, I'll be focusing more on the "She-Hulk" comics. I want to focus more on these because I can compare them to man-made comics that star women heroes. The biggest difference you can immediately notice is the style and body proportions. In most comics with just well any woman in it really, you'd see super unrealistic body proportions. You know which ones I'm talking about. The tiny tiny waist, the giant boobs, the similar facial features to all other women heroes in comics, and the lack of variety of shapes and sizes within the comics in general. Yes, in this comic She-Hulk does have fairly big boobs but the difference here was that they were more natural in shape AND you couldn't see her nipples 24/7 and they didn't look like they could stab your eye out because in men's comics those ones are clearly

For this week's blog post, I read "Alice in Sunderland" on my own time, "Bone" and "Every Girl is the End of the World for Me" in class. So all of these comics were so different in comparison to each other. "Alice in Sunderland" was not even close to what I was expecting. Like at all. Like I talked about in class discussion it was super historical and very odd. I didn't really enjoy it that much but that's because of how historical it was but not like about one event in history, it was like jumping from one historical thing to another and it was a lot of information to take in. That comic kind of just made my head hurt to be honest so I got over halfway through it and then decided I didn't really care to see the ending. The other two comics I at least enjoyed reading. I think I liked reading "Bone" the best out of the three. I liked the style of the drawings. Even though they were simple and heavily stylized, the read r

For this week's blog post, I read "Cinderella Boy." at first it was really hard to get into the groove with reading just because I've never read Manga before and the panels read backwards from what I'm used to reading which is completely normal for Manga. After I got past the way of reading I did find it fairly entertaining. It wasn't my favorite thing to read but it was terrible either. I kind of wish since the style is more simple that it would've been in color but that's just personal preference. I think the comic was slightly cliché and not super action packed so it made for a more laid back read. It didn't have me at the edge of my seat with anticipation so I found it slightly boring in a way.  I did like that the main character was female even though she was pretending to be a guy... in a boy band lol but of course she had to start falling in love with one of the other boy band members. I can't even remember his name. The one part wher

For this week's blog post, I read one of the "Blacksad" comics. The one I read was "Amarillo." I think personally this ended up being one of my favorite comics I've read this semester. It was full of action, color, and entertaining as hell. I kind of liked that the comic was done like "Maus" and the people were animals. I liked it even better because there were way more different types of animals than in "Maus." I've only done a couple illustrations with stylized human-like animals and they are not always easy to portray emotions with and I think this comic artist did a fantastic job with the balance of human emotion and movements with animalistic features. I think the story telling was done really well and the action panels were especially successful. The movement within the panels translated really well in my opinion and it was almost like watching a movie but with one of those old view masters so it's only one frame at a time