Most of us have at least seen an Archie comic in a grocery store if we haven’t actually read one. I grew up reading Archie, Archie and Jughead, and Betty and Veronica comics. The general plotline of the comics when I read them as a child was that a teenage boy, Archie, was kind of goofy and involved in a… Read more →
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An Enemy of Desire: The Beginning of The Sandman saga
Have you ever wondered what purpose your dreams serve? Are they instruction? A vision of a parallel world? Maybe they show you what you secretly desire. In Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman saga, Dream is a bipedal representation of where our minds wander in the dark waters of sleep. Dream walks amongst us, and he observes, only engaging when his interests… Read more →
Death is the Only Escape in Watchmen
For the past couple weeks, I’ve been reading Watchmen for the first time, and I must say that I’m totally captivated by how dark the graphic novel is. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons have a unique way of creating beauty through rather morbid storytelling—I can see how Watchmen sort of kick started the “Dark Age” of comic books in the… Read more →
Americas Superheroes: Traumatic experiences lead to heroism?
There are five Super Heroes in America who are commonly recognized for their popular standings at the top of the original Marvel and DC comic industries. The five Hero’s I studied were Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America and The Green Hornet. Each one has some sort of catalyst that turns them from an average person into the heroes we know… Read more →