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 for this week I read Meg and Mogg. right away i was struck by the strong, unique visuals. The imagery was extremely trippy, utilizing a lot of strange colors and nonsensical perspective. but these patterns and colors are not used in a way that's necessarily confusing. I could see and tell what I was seeing, the narrative of the image didn't translate, but I knew who was where in space. it gave the vibes of a music poster. Moving into the comic itself, it was clear this trippy imagery was designed to be trippy imagery, as we see the characters smoking weed in the first page. I really love this style. The patterns and look of it is extremely expressive. It reminds me of the work of Pendleton Ward. not only in an adventure time kind of way, it's actually a lot closer than that. I've seen original artwork by Ward and it looks a lot like this. like extremely similar, like the only difference is he colors his with markers. The character designs also support this tryppy feeli

 1. my reaction to the killing joke is not really anything too extreme. However I'm not going to view this as any fault of the comic itself, this more comes from the fact that these concepts and this story has been told through so many different means over the years that it's effect on modern audiences just won't be that strong. we've seen all this before, through people referencing it. 2. I'm a little confused about what this question is asking. I didn't feel really that connected with the ideas. The characters were entertaining I guess, but again this story just can't wow me any more. These ideas of breaking someone and making them a villain and the differences between good guys and bad guys started with the killing joke, however they are much better explored in the dark knight, mostly because unlike the killing joke, that movie shows how one bad day was about to break Harvey Dent. 3. any changes i would make would be to essentially push it more. I found i

 It is impossible to cover the work and wonders female comic artists have done in one simple lesson, however I do see the sad necessity in needing to dedicate and focus on the topic of female artists because of how far into the background they have been pushed. with that out of the way, i read "Pretty ink." I feel as though this is a little harder to analyze because it is more of a collection of comics and a history book with art in it as opposed to a comic itself, but I would still talk to talk about the stuff I read and what I learned about. i knew a bit about Rose O'Neil before this, but i never realized the uphill batter she had to face to become the artist that she would become, and not only that but how screwed she was once she became that. i also never realized how earlier she was in the history of the comics, coming around at about the same time as the yellow kid. while it wasn't very much, she was still there at the start which is pretty impressive. The creat