Watchmen was awesome.
There were so many intertwining and subtle elements that made me respect the hell out of this graphic novel. I thought the overlapping of narration between Shea's comic book along with the conversations held amongst the individuals at the news stand fit so perfect and showed an awesome parallel between the insanity of both worlds. The whole overlapping of two different story lines was also clever when Dan and Laurie were attempting to get it on and the news was playing in the background. It reminded me of Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 with sexual narration going on from an outside source. Kind of humorous, but also, pretty embarrassing for Dan.
After Thursday's class, when we talked about whether the graphics of the panels were better analyzed when there was no text, I started to pay more attention to the art. I noticed that in many of these chapters, there were several pages that included no text at all. At first I made a conscious effort to study these panels, but as I continued reading it became natural. I also noticed that throughout random conversations in the novel, certain words were in bold. I tried pathetically to draw a connection between the words, however, I'm still hella confused. Overall, I really really really hope the next graphic novels we read resemble more of Watchmen and no more pathetic girly men like sad old Craig.
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I'm almost done with it, only two more chapters left. I've never really read many comic books before this, and it's pretty amazing stuff. The careful attention to detail, in the art, the diologue, the self reference, it's all pretty amazing. Glad I read it.
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