My own comic

So in class we were asked to create our own comic, modeled after the 24 page comic in 24 hours contest thats hosted every year. Well mine was the 2 page comic in 2 hours. I had no idea of a topic in which I could create a comic about, so i used my inspiration from the Stephen Lynch song Superhero. I basically just made drawings to go along with the lyrics, and while I think it's clever and funny, others might find it unoriginal. So here it is hope you enjoy!

X-Men..... the dark piece of crap

I was not fully prepared for what was in store when I started to read x-men. It was basically a soap opera in book form, with a hint of 7th heaven. I hated ever second I spent reading this book, and while I am probably being very dramatic when I say hate, I just could not get through it. There was so much narrative that I wanted to pull out my hair every time I was informed that someone was running. I KNOW THEY ARE RUNNING I CAN SEE THE PICTURE. There was a point in the story where I just stopped reading the book and just looked at the pictures. Even though I didn't know what they were saying to each other I still got the gist of the story. It just amazed me that the author thought 11 year olds could read this, I mean bing a sophomore in college I had trouble with the wording at times. Using big words doesn't make the comic any better.

I also hated how I was just thrown into this story knowing nothing about the characters and there background. I have seen all three x-men movies which did help me to identify most of the characters and who they were, but some of the time I was just plain confused. I was just not happy with this book at all, and it really has turned me away from other x-men comics.

Understanding Comics

SOOOOOO..... I was not a fan of this quote on quote textbook. I was really just confused the whole time by a lot of his wording and lengthy explanations. A comic is a comic not a juxtaposition definition. I feel like he was kind of mocking me the whole time, telling me that he knew more about comics then I did and not to mention he kind of made me feel dumb. I think he may have written the book soul to listen to himself talk.... in well book form. He also was in cartoon form which made me not want to take him seriously. It would have been better if he were somewhat real looking, HE DIDNT HAVE A NECK or EYES.... kinda creepy. The whole pyramid thing really just made me want to reach through the book and punch him, I don't believe that the whole visual arts can be placed inside that pyramid. I also didn't like how he wanted the artists and the writers to be separate to master their skills, I would think that they should be together and master their skills as a whole so that they can work of each other.

Now that I have just bashed McCloud here are some of the things I did like about him and his book:

I loved his semi interesting humor
I loved his definition of art (the whole strip about cavemen, survival and reproduction)
I loved the fact that it was a comic book itself; it kept my attention a lot more then if it was just writing
Finally I liked his drawings they were pretty nice

I feel like I will get a lot more out of this book as the semester goes on and we read more and discuss the graphic novels, but as of right now I'm just not a fan of this book. So if I later make a post about how I connected this book with another graphic novel that we read later then you can disregard this random rant.

It's raining/snowing....this is why i hate maine

So i'm sitting in the 3rd floor lounge of my building listening to the freezing rain on the window and I think about how warm it is in California and how I could very well be swimming right now. Getting away from the horrible Maine weather however, I wanted to share my favorite comic site. Now the comics featured here aren't ones that we would read about in our class or along the lines of them whatsoever, butttttt there fun nevertheless. Calvin and Hobbes is and always will be my favorite comic, and this site just lets me read as much of them as I want, along with more favorites.....dilbert, foxtrot, zits, and yes I'm a sucker for adam@home. Basically I love the Sunday comics. They are never about violence (unless you consider dilbert violence) and for some reason can almost always bring a smile to my face. So if you want a comic relieve from comics check out mycomicspage.com