COMICS COMICS COMICS!

I am probably one of the few people that has actually read comics in the last four years. This type of writing has always been associated with being something in the Sunday paper or for little kids. However, never thought I would be reading comics and graphic novels in a college English class. Comics don’t always have to be superheroes and punch lines. As McCloud had a hard time defining, comics are a juztaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence. This can mean a lot of things. For instance, I really love Marvel’s Civil War series. Ok, so though it does have every marvel superhero fighting against each other over a superhero registration act (which is completely amazing!), but is also a political allegory to 9/11 and the Patriot Act. Graphic novels and comics can go a lot deeper than just words and pictures. After reading this article and comic, I am excited to further dissect and learn what else this medium has to offer.