- Oct 2016
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The images of Jon Osterman in the story after he has rebuilt his body &ndash his blueness, his blank eyes, and his nakedness &ndash represent his difference from everyone around him, his alienation from society and his literal removal from humanity. Even the very first picture of his reconstituted body accentuates his separation
I think it's interesting how this image not only separates him from the rest of humanity, but does so by making him seem god-like, which is not the same kind of separation that I think most trauma victims experience.
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The combination of words and images provide many opportunities for illustrating the impact of traumatic experience
Graphic novels basically combine the different portrayal benefits of movies and novels.
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mimicking its forms and symptoms, so that temporality and chronology collapse, and narratives are characterized by repetition and indirection
This technique was definitely apparent in Watchmen - the repetition of certain items in different scenes (the bottle of nostalgia, the smiley face, etc.), and even the panel structures seem to mimic symptoms of the character's traumas.
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- Sep 2016
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This fragmentation of the gaze allows comics to participate in two different ontological and semiotic fields at once
This kind of reminds me of Schrodinger's cat - a character exists in multiple places simultaneously, and is everywhere at once until we look at a single image at a time and pin the character down there for a while.
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- Aug 2016
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“That’s right,” I said, “or even worse, it could be perfect.”
I think this is my favorite sentence of this story. It gets right to the heart of what the story is talking about in such a simple way.
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The diet pill had given up.
This is the second time he's personified the diet pill - I find that emphasis pretty interesting.
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He burped.
Coming right after the disturbing description of a floating bear head, this phrase caught me off guard and made me laugh, because it seems so normal in comparison to what the man is talking about.
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You’d sit there with a peanut butter sandwich and a glass of milk, and a static-ridden Hollywood baritone would tell you that there was A Flying Car in Your Future
I noticed immediately that the writer takes a very familiar tone in this - making the reader feel like they've experienced the exact things he's talking about. The tone is also quite poetic despite the format and subject, which I like.
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The noise waking up the rival, he hears the cries for help, hastens to see what is the matter, and recaptures the beloved one.
She's a very passive character - not putting up any fight whatsoever regardless of who captures her or how many times she is captured
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Mr. Oldbuck increasing his speed, advances at the rate of ten leagues an hour.
So his dog finally did get off the roof!
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Mr. Oldbuck breaks a hole in the roof and disappears.
I'm really concerned about this poor dog... He's just been left on the roof again!
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At a loss to know what has happened to them, the family give themselves up to profound grief.
Why couldn't they just climb down from the roof?
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As he enters the church, Mr. Oldbuck remembers that he has shut his dog at home, and goes back to let him out.
Seems like a bad time to leave!
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His suit being approved
I also noticed that although his suit is apparently approved of by the woman's parents, the woman herself seems sad, since her head is down in the illustration
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Mr. Oldbuck drinks ass's milk.
This line/illustration struck me as funny in that it seems so random, even though I'm guessing it's supposed to be part of the doctor's remedy
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Third interview-declaration-sighs-hopes.
The love story is really interesting - they don't seem to know each other well at all, and yet he is so devastated by her refusal of him, that he tries to kill himself
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He rushes to the street, but she has vanished
There is more emotion in the illustrations for the story than in the captions that accompany them
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