Jack Cole and Plastic Man, Asterix the Gladiator and Chasing Amy

I really enjoyed the humor in this book, it was very much my style in that way. Art wise it seemed like just the average costumed hero, nothing special there. I found some of the stories to be kind of dry, nothing was very interesting, they were very basic to me, the only thing that made it more than average was some on the humor included in it.

I also read Asterix the Gladiator this week, which was a little more interesting to me. The stroy was more refreshing because I never really got to see the other side of the story of Rome, it was always about the Romans in the movies and this was a nice change. I found the characters to be unique and all interesting in their own way. The art style was also more interesting to me that Plastic Man.

This week I also watch the movie Chasing Amy. I really love Kevin Smith films and this was no exception. I had seen it once awhile ago but I had forgotten much of the story so it was nice to go back and watch it again. This is a movie about a comic book creator, Holden, who falls in love with another comic creator, Alyssa. soon after he starts having feeling for her he finds out she is actually a lesbian. This is very hard for him to over come and he ends up telling her anyways that he has deep feeling for her. They start to date but Holden soon realizes he can't deal with some of Alyssa's past sexual exploits and goes crazy. At the end he proposes having a 3 way with his friend Banky then Alyssa leaves him. My favorite part of the movie is actually the very beginning when a fan is calling Banky a tracer, I just love the dialogue there.

Little Nemo in the Palace of Ice

For the second week of class I read Little Nemo in the Palace of Ice, among other comic books. From just the cover I didn't think I would like it very much but once I got into the actual book I was surprised that I actually liked the idea quite a bit. I liked how it really played with the readers imagination, in slumberland anything could happen. The adventures that Nemo and his friends went on were very whimsical and I enjoyed the transitions, they were very dream like and fit the story well. The biggest problem I had with this comic book was that the characters were extremely flat. Nemo, the main character of the story, never really says much or does anything for that matter, he is just... there. The only time he actually does anything is it the last panel, when he wakes up, which I'll elaborate on later. Then there is his friend Flip who is the mischief maker of the comic, always getting into trouble some how. I would say that I didn't read enough of the strip to see changes in the characters but it was an entire story arch contained within the book so I am a little disappointed. One part of Little Nemo I found interesting and I feel the need to elaborate on is how the last plane of every comic is him waking up in bed.

Each comic ends with Nemo waking up in bed, usually in a different way. There were a few comics in which he was falling in slumberland and when he would wake up he would be on the floor. I found this transition between the sleeping world and his reality very interesting. I think the transitions form different scenes and places within the book are done amazing and waking up has to be my favorite.