Comics Books

I'm not really one for superhero comics, so I wasn't really too enthusiastic about the Superman comic I read in class. Although despite my personal feelings towards the genre, I think that the specific issue I got just happened to be really expositiony and boring. The entire time I was reading it (we switched before I could finish), it was just explaining the entire plot of what was happening, rather than showing any of it. The one I read was about Superman getting an award that was really a bomb, and he lost his memory of who he was and where he came from. He finds some army fatigues and figures he's a part of the army. The whole time this is happening, the frames just show portraits of Superman thinking, or shots of Superman in a field thinking about what is happening. It feels like the panels served no real artistic purpose, and solely existed for the comic to be considered a comic, instead of just some expository words on a page. My favorite part of the comic was the Batman Hostess ad. I just really enjoy old ads and think they are funny. Maybe I just happened to get a comic that wasn't written as well as others, but it didn't leave a very good impression.

The second round of comics I felt much better about though. They had more of a narrative to them, and the panels actually served a storytelling purpose. I read two of the comics in the EC Comics issue that I got, and I don't know if it was just the type of series, or just how comics were at that time, but all of the comics were about women who hated their husbands? It was some fun and cheesy drama, and I enjoyed reading it for the most part, but it just seemed weird that that was such a prominent theme. I think it definitely is of-the-time, but despite that, I think it still holds up pretty well.

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