Metal Hurlant (66 pgs)

Well of course i look a the illustrations first and i thought that the drawings were very strong and i really enjoyed the style reminds me of my illustration teachers style... I had to really zoom into the comic because it was very hard to read the text, maybe if i had it in person it would be easier to read but on the computer it just didnt work for me.. or maybe i just need glasses.  but then againafter i zoomed in i noticed that it was not even in english. haha

But it must be about goblins or maybe his form of aliens where they are playing in outerspace or blowing things up .. maybe even there is a war between two species...Some of the characters will give me nightmares and some were pretty funny to enjoy.  I noticed that the artist was not afraid to show nudity, which i mean i think some of the comic books do good with great story, drama, good characters, and some nudity.  I just felt that i was in this whole other world and i actually kind of believed that it could be real... the way the environments worked with the characters and everything else just worked out.  It was believable.  One section was where two aliens were getting it on and flirting with each other and finding that sexual connection.. and i mean seemed pretty legit, i never think about aliens having sex.. but this was funny to see.  It definitely has a twist, after they were doing it then they were running away from these two large creatures and as he was running holding her hand the person stepped on her and she was dead.. only thing left was her arm which was attached to his hand still.  I did NOT expect that at all!!

I really thought this comic was pretty cool just because of the creatures/characters he does in the environments. I am an illustrator and i know that i could not pull this off, i am really not that good at making a complete different unique new environment especially with aliens because lets just say i have a phobia of aliens.  But i enjoyed someone else take of an alien/creature that was definitely unique!

Superheros Reconisdered:Preacher 1-7

Starting with the cover i thought the illustration was awesome. showed how dark and disturbing the comic is and i just enjoyed the coloring of it.  I noticed that all the people in the comic had long faces and most had long features as well.  The illustrations were awesome i never got bored reading this comic because the illustrations lead me through the writing of it.

The story is about how the preacher tells us the story of Jesse Custer who is a preacher in a town Annville in Texas.  He was by accident possessed by Genesis which killed his entire congregation and flattened his church... He seems like he is battling his faith with God and so is he is on an adventure of trying to find Him, God. 

This preacher is definetely not right with himself or God, i mean he was in a place looked like a dinner and told people out loud what their secrets were since he is the one that hears it all the time, which is completely wrong, and some of those secrets were cracked out.  And he smokes cigareets and drinks where he does say things like that out loud, which portrays him as a dark and disturbed preacher.  Even the dim lighting of each panel gives off that way. 


Some of the story lines were gory which i thought were cool.  When the girl decides to blow away this guys mouth while he was in the car with two other people was just awesome.  The coloring of the panels were sick because they were cold illustrations with the use of blues and greens, and then when she shot the gun, and the outside of the car was orange and yellow and reds and inside the car was blues and greens still.  I just think that the artist really depicts what is going on with the choosing of his colors. 

Woman Comics: Molly Kiely Diary of a Dominatrix

I thought it was interesting where she would like to go for comics, i mean i never thought a comic would be about a dominatrix woman would be one of them.  But i love her illustrations, i love the style with line work and blocking things in with black.  The black and white and some with a little bit of color such as her nail polish and lips make them so much stronger to my eye.  I liked how in the beginning of the comic she had a poster portraying a dominatrix and she is all tied up and on the side its a ad with the number to call is you want to get with her over the phone like phone dominatrix sex.  I thought it was original just because i have never seen this and for a woman to do this is surprising just because it seems more like a males fantasy than a woman's.  I wonder if she was into this kind of stuff or it just amused her to do it, or maybe saw a market for the use of doing this. 

The comic has humor in it that i enjoyed, i mean saying she is your friendly neighborhood dominatrix is pretty funny and how she portrays it as not a bad job where she enjoys what she does like dressing up everyday and maybe beating the shit out of your boss ( which is hilarious.)  It got a little raunchy with the butt plugs and dildos or your fist, and then showing a guy put one of those props up his butt. I mean i guess i know now that dominatrix doesn't mean just whips but crazy ass things that involve stretching a guys balls. ouch. 

The panels i thought were interesting, the use of showing her prepping up her appearance and the other three panels on the same page shows her doing other stuff like popping a pimple, and teasing her eyebrows... i thought the close up's were a great way to go into more depth of an outsiders look of a panel.  Also some of the pages where things that she needs/wants to do.  As in, what she needs to do to get ready, what kind of make up, what should she wear, what would she need to bring for props, and she makes it like a dress up kit doll so you could cut her out and put the outfit you want on her.  i thought that was very creative on her part.

i liked how the panels of the comics were not just the only thing she did but when she did ad's or posters, or a huge panel that just showed how normal they could be when they are in public shopping for food compared to the panels that are just all over the place and showing how many ways you can do something to a guy.  Some of the panels on a page would be a little stressful to try and understand, there would be just so much to try and read into the illustrations and the props and objects on the side would just overwhelm my eyes. 

Love and rockets by Hernandez Bros.

i liked how it is very contemporary because i could relate to the comic more. It portrayed how teenagers are "rebels" towards their parents where they do not show any respect to them, they show sex hints in the background, for instance, usage of posters on their walls, and there was drinking and smoking cigarettes with swear words in the mix.  Even in the beginning a character referred his sister as a bitch.  Also this comic portrayed the drama that comes with being a teenager, it had a "love" story sort of, maybe more of crushes, and then how joey wanted to find his record really bad but it kept being handed off to another person and every time he went to that person they handed it off to someone else.  The only thing was that i got so interested into the story about all the characters and it ended so abruptly and very confusing. I will never know if joey will find his record, i will never know what happens to joey and tom tom, and i will never know if izzy and the girls will find a new house since they are being kicked out.  But i really enjoyed the simple illustrations, the black and white worked out, normally i do not like black and white comics i chose color over it, but i had no complaints about reading this comic.  I was very amused and satisfied besides the ending.

Wide World of Comics

Blacksad Quelque part entre les onbres


As an illustrator, ( which i feel like i always say, but it's true) i cannot help but just watch the visuals more than the text.  But the good thing about this, is that it is in Spanish, so i really cannot pay attention to the text, since i am not fluent in spanish.  BUT, the illustrations are sweet.  I like the style, and i like how the characters are sometimes animals such as a cat or dog.  Which i s weird seeing a cat and a dog work together... since in real life most of them do not.  Without knowing the text, i think its about a criminal investigation in the beginning where the dog and cat are talking about how she died, but seems to argue about what happened. The panels i think are really set up nicely, but as i keep going back looking through what i experienced through this comic, i just cannot get over the illustrations, i am becoming a fan of these.  I am confused at some parts in the comic, one minute the main detective is investigating people  that could of been related to the crime and then one minuet doing some girl showing up with a rose from the guy he was investigating.  Or maybe he was stealing a rose from him and putting a gun in his mouth, i will never know, but i highly doubt that scenario. But i really got lost, i keep coming up with a million things in my head of what the story could be but none of them seem right. I would like to know what this comic is about and what each scene is saying... but other than that i am in love with illustrations and i think this comic is fresh and clean looking that keeps it orderly.

Rumiko Takahashi—Ranma Book 1& 2

I decided to read a little bit of this comic over break because i wanted to go out of my element and read something that i am not aware or familiar with.  Well at first, while i was reading i was getting incredibly confused about how the wording was and who was talking.. it just felt very jumpy and i didn't know where to begin.  But after awhile i started to catch on how the wording was going and got on their level of the jumpiness, so i started to enjoy it better. 

For the most part i felt that this comic was weird, i mean i liked how different it is from most comics, but trying to keep up with if Ranma Saotome was a girl or boy.  And it was like in the second chapter they were going to tell what was the deal with Ranma, but instead they started fighting and then the panda turned up again.  So now i figured out that Ranma's father is the panda due to maybe chinese training?  But i feel like i totally missed out why or how Ranma is portrayed as a girl and boy.  It seemed like it was resolved but i still am not clear about it.


For the comic, i didnt care too much about the character designs, i am not really a fan of anime, maybe the only person that doesn't... hopefully not.  But, it seemed to me to have an anime feel to it, and the text was sometimes confusing when the would jump from one panel to the next panel. 


I liked this comic, just because it was different to my comfort, and i liked leaving that comfort that i have been doing in the beginning of the semester, but it took me awhile to catch on and i am still trying to.

King: Ho Che Anderson

WOW. these illustrations i just loved so much.  I mean i was having a hard time reading than actually looking in detail at each and every illustration. I kept looking at how they used newspaper photos in the composition in a orderly manner way.  I thought it was cool how in my American Creativity class which is held on tuesday mornings, we were just talking about Dr. Marting Luther King and the bus boycotts and his "I have a dream speech,"  and to be reading this as well i feel like this week i learned so much about him.  The pictures of him getting through what he had to do which he knew was right and to see him beaten up was just astonishing.  Another thing that i was thinking, these illustrations kind of reminded me of a jagged edge, very straight edged, like Braque or Picasso.  Not broken up like how they did, but in some sort of way it does remind me of that.  Anyways, I have to say this was a moving comic about his biography and it definitely kept me interested in reading.  Lastely, i notcied that Anderson gave each person in this a unique, creative voice, which makes the movement in this narrative so much stronger.  But i really enjoyed reading this and viewing the illustrations, it was very motivating to maybe try a style like that as an illustrator.