Emily Parks

For this class you asked to write our reaction to the Superman comic “Whatever happened to the man of the future?” Along with what connects we made in the story. Reading what was going on without being much a Superman fan, my reaction was pretty overwhelmed. I was bombarded with evil villains I have hardly herd of or seen before this, all breaking the ever famous Superman comic code of never killing anyone ever. This must of been a lot for him having all this happen at once. However the story doesn’t add up in places and I’m sure that was on purpose do to Lois telling the story. In the end of the novel you see Lois kissing her husband with a weird mustache, talking about super man while their son, who literary looks exactly like baby super man, is turning coal into diamonds. It’s obvious to say that superman didnt kill himself but lives on as a normal father. Plus is gold kcyptonite even a thing? I always thought it was green, and why would he just own a room full of it in his secre...

ANIME TIME, the moment we’ve all been waiting for  Well Jesus Christ, was I NOT ever expecting to be writing about good ol anime for a college assignment. My younger 12 year old self is giving me a pat on the back right now saying “this is it, this is what you were training for” and finally many like myself have a sigh of relief knowing all that time wasted in middle school reading shojo, all those days after high school scanning the internet for the newest translation of your favorite manga and drawing terrible giant sparkle eyes was not for nothing. May all this pointless knowledge I have on magical girls and super robot dramas be actually useful!  However I’m not going to pick your average popular series (as much as I would love to rant about inyuasha)  or even one of the more popular Tezuka mangas. As a 12 year old who would grow up continuously willingly to be bombarded with anime, I felt the need to educate myself on every piece of it I could find. It reall...

When it comes to older comics I really prefer European comics as the stories don’t tend to be as typical or censored and carry more fantasy elements. Same thing goes for the art which I’ve found in a lot of the examples shared in the course website to contain A LOT more color then other older comics.  The comic I’m choosing to talk about for the world wide pick will be Blacksad by Juan Diaz and Juanjo Guarnido. The comic contains a world run by anthropomorphic characters, our main character being a regular cat who is a detective. Each comic contains a new mystery he has swindled himself into solving. The interesting dynamic of black sad is it’s style, and how the artist chose to depict characters through animals but still refers to human traits and forms of racism. The time line takes place around Jim crow era and even depicts a black and whites only bathroom, but they are all just animals relying on the reader. This comics amazing art brings up humans history of racism without ...

This comic storytelling was very immersive on this historical social movement. It’s really incredible storytelling of a recently lived historical event. I feel our world now makes it seem like this history was so long ago when in reality it isn’t far in the slightest. Reading March is a great reminder of how modern these issues in America are and how relative they sadly still are to today’s social issues.  I think having this story told through the eyes of some one who lived through the beginning of the movement, and starting from childhood, was a really interesting and moving take. The comic being presented in only black and white, in ink with wash, I think is really symbolic for this story dealing with Jim Crow. I wish this comic was more prevalent in schools, I feel like if this was read in grade school kids (at least where I am from which is a very low education swamp on the edge of Florida full of ignorant people) would of had a better understanding of these issues m...