Red cape man

Clark is starting to grow and hes at the end of his high school year. Clark is noticing that he can do things other normal people cant do and pa and ma kent are realizing that they need to tell him. Pa and Ma kent are scared because they dont know what clark might end up doing with his powers, if he will use it for the good or bad. Clark is scared because he realizes that hes not normal after hearing his father talk with his mom, also his experience at the barber shop were the guy tries to cut his hair and ends up breaking the scissors, then he went home running fast, and just stared out with questions that are unanswered.

Super Powers

I would love to have powers of super intelligence so that I can create new things that can help people, cure diseases, and other things. This power might bring problems because people might try use me for there bad plans since I know everything and they don't.

Assessment Graphic Novels

In this blog I will be comparing and contrasting two comic books, named “Witch”, and “Wolverine”. I will be comparing and contrasting the colors, shadow, and panel size of both stories. “Witch” is about a girl that hears voices in her head which ends up being her familiar, a monster cat that is under her command with great power. Once she found out her powers she used it to escape from criminals, save her boyfriend, and save her uncle which at the end died. Hunters are the people chasing her trying to take away her familiar. “Wolverine” is about a man mutated with powers of healing, and metal claws that were inserted by the scientist. He then becomes a super hero working in the group called X-men, but throughout the whole story he tries to save a girl that he has strong feelings towards.

            In both comic books one of the important things is the color being used. In “Witch”, and “Wolverine” one thing that compares is how they use their color to go with the actions , as well as the mood that is taking place in the scene. For, example Kylie from “Witch” was walking down an ally the scene was dark almost like a warning to the readers that something bad was going to happen. Which it did, a man with a knife tried to steal her belonging. The colors used were purple, brown, black, setting a tense mood; this led to know the readers that there are dangerous problems. In “Wolverine” it’s almost the same message when dark colors are used. Logan walked into a cave looking for a monster that has been bothering people, the scene got dark because there was going to be action happening, even his words went with the dark mood, he said “perfect for an ambush. Better let him come to me”. So the author uses color to convey the mood and actions to the readers. The contrasting part is that “Witch” is pretty dark throughout the whole story, as “Wolverine” is not; some scenes have bright colors that represent Logan’s image. Also in “Witch” colors are well colored in, in “Wolverine” the colors are not to well colored in the comic book.

            Another important element is the panel size used in both comic books. In” witch” and in “Wolverine” panels can be compared together. Panel sizes are used in both to state the importance of the scene and let you focus on what’s happening throughout the scene. For example, In “Witch” the scene were Kylie falls into the ground and her inner familiar comes out to attack the criminal, the panel takes half the page. In “Wolverine” the scene were Logan walked into the apartment that he and his girlfriend lived in, and found his long time friend dead in the floor, realizing that his wife had killed him but he didn’t know why. The panel size also takes half the page, to let the readers know that this is important part of the comic book. A difference between both their panels is that the small panels in “witch” aren’t usually important, and in “Wolverine” each panel are important and follow up each moment of the story. Another difference is that in “Wolverine” the really small panel size are used to express what Logan is thinking in his head.

            The last important key to the comic book is the shadow that’s being used in both. In “Witch” last volume, page 17, second panel the author made Kylie’s face one sided shadow, and behind her bright colors. The side of the shadow of her face represented a dark side of evilness that’s inside her because she wanted to kill the man that hurt her uncle, and had taken away her mother. Another clue is that inside the shadow of her face Kylie had a red dot inside her eyes. In “Wolverine”, page 21, first panel, were Logan just killed the father of his loved one, and the lord daughter walks in to see. The artist used shadow to represent the dark mood that is occurring in that scene. The biggest shadow is the guy’s daughter Mariko, she takes half the panel. This is to represent the importance of the scene, because she was clueless of what was happening. The artist also shadowed Logan to almost hide his feelings of killing her father, or even to represent that it wasn’t in an importance to him.

            In Conclusion, I’ve compared both the “Witch”, and the “Wolverine”. I compared the color, panel size, and shadow that are in each comic book. Each one of these elements makes up the comic book, and shows its importance to the readers. If some of these parts weren’t in the comic book you might not be able to understand it. The color brings out the characters, the panel size show the importance of the scene, and the shadow bring out the importance of both the character and scene.

Wolverine

According to the first four pages in the comic book "Wolverine" is a superhero that likes to do his job to leave everything in the world equally balanced, he even says it himself "Now's the time to balance the books". Wolverine also has characteristic of an animal hunting others down, he says " I look, listen, smell, wait" while hes looking for a berserker. He is an expert on his surroundings, "This is my home...Land as stark an elemental as my soul". Wolverine is a good fighter because he ends up killing a monster twice as big a him, and His body is able to withstand anything that comes his way, "My skeletons laced with the same stuff which means it can withstand virtualy any amount of punishment".

                                         

Witch Shocking Moments

In witch there were some shocking moments that left me surprised. One was in page 13 halfway of the comic book Kylie and Roger try to go save Aaron that’s being held as a hostage by the hunters. They walk in and start fighting hitting every hunter, they saw Aaron tied up, but then suddenly everything stopped and Meredith, Rogers’s wife, was there in the hunter’s side pointing a gun at Rogers head. Another shocking moment was at the end of the comic book were the hunters went back to report to their big boss that Kylie escaped with her familiar, you couldn't see who the boss was because it was covered from head to toe, he started walking into a cell room, and then there was a women sitting inside the cell floor, all she says is "Kylie is still alive", and then finish. The woman at the end was Kylie mom apparently because the boss said "her daughter will never find her". Both these scenes are similar because they are very unexpected throughout the whole story nothing led up to these parts, and the clues were hard to find that this would of happened, almost every time something weird was going to happen the scenes got dark. The difference is that they each had their moments of shocking someone, when I saw Meredith holding a gun I thought she was being controlled by the hunters, because I could’ve never thought his wife would do that to him but then I kept reading and found out that she was really a hunter. The end part was hard to understand unless you were really into the book and figured that the few words she said was about Kylie her daughter, so it left you shocked and clueless on what can happen next.

Imaginary Friend

An imaginary friend is someone or something you create with your head to be part of your life that has its own personality. Some people have imaginary friends because they might feel lonely so they need someone to comunicate with or build a relationship with, and even lets them escape from the real world. The girls mom and dad can't see the imaginary friend because its not what they are imagining its only seen threw the little girls eyes because she is the creator, and when your an adult your most likely not to believe in certain things a kid would. The imaginary friend for the little girl doesnt exist for us but it does to her.

Jaws

In "Jaws" in the beginning of the movie a women is running towards the ocean and a man is following her into the water as well. She got into the water and swimed very far, the guy passed out in the shore while she stayed by her self. Then the camera from inside the water comes from down up looking at the girls feet while shes still swimming, and then without her expecting it she gets bitten by a shark, she helplessly screams for help but there was nobody around, the shark drags her all around the water, she grabbed a buoy but wasn't strong enough to hold on. This scene is scary because everyone likes to swim, and when we go into the water we don't think about the shark coming at us to kill us. Another thing that makes the scene scary is the setting it takes place in, her hard screaming, and the music that plays out.

Scariest Scene

In "30 days of night" there’s a scene where it starts to get very scary. In page 22/23 a group vampires start walking to the town, a man and a women look threw binoculars and see so many vampires with blood in their sharp teeth, even a little girl looking hungry and ready to kill people.

 In "Night dance" page 13 one of the scariest moments was when Michael Myers is sitting down in front of a fireplace and has a body that’s burning in the fire, the guy also had a knife stuck in his throat. Michael Myers looks like he’s being entertained by this burning body that’s in front of him, which to us would be very disturbing.

Another scary moment in "Night Dance" page 21 is when a girl is being chased by Michael Myers and she runs in front of  car and ends up killing her. The couple stop and check to make sure she’s ok, but Michal had been following her and sees her dead and comes out from the dark with a knife and stabs the girl that went to check on her. Which she never expected to happen to her, her husband comes out the car and starts to cry. Michael apparently did it for fun and puts her in the guys eyes to see her slowly die.

Compare and Contrast

A contrasting part of stories, Halloween Night Dance, and 30 days of night is that they have different situations of what’s happening. In Halloween Night Dance Michael Myers is just a sick headed person that goes around killing people on the day of Halloween, you can see this in page 20 were he sticks his knife into a women’s chest from behind. As In 30 days of night its about vampires that invade a small town that has been in the dark for days which let the vampires roam around getting ready to kill people, you can see this in page 17, and page 22 where the vampires are starting to walk towards the town in a big group.

Compare and Contrast Art work

There are similarities of art work used in both "30 days of night", and "Halloween Night Dance". In both stories the artist use dark colors every time something bad is going to happen, like in "30 days of night" in page 13 when the vampire walks into the police station the mood got darker even the character itself. As in "Night Dance" in page 8 were the girl is tied up to a door screaming for help. But There are also differences of the art work used in both stories. In "Night Dance" the artist used more detailed drawing even of the surroundings, you can see this in page 7 were the car is driving away and compare it to page 4 of "30 days of night" were the police car is with the siren light. The artist also used brighter colors throughout the story to support the mood or the time of year which is in October. In "30 days of Night" the artwork is not very detailed, its simple sketching maybe to attract the readers more into the words than the picture. The artist also used more dark colors every scene to set a mood of horror or tense.

The bogeyman

The bogeyman is a evil spirit that hides in the closets or underneath the bed waiting to take your sould away. It comes out in the night and when your sleeping. Its a story usually told to kids when they are behaving bad, that if they continue the bogeyman will take them away.

Predator or Parasite

Like a Polar bear eating a seal. Jenifer eats any living thing in her way to survive. Jenifer can be considered more of a predator than parasite. I think Jenifer is a predator because she puts fear into people’s eyes and makes them feel hopeless. But before people see her face they think she’s just a regular girl that needs help, this can be a way towards attacking her pray so that sooner or later she can live of it by eating it. As a human would see a polar bear and think they were so cute that they would want to pet them, would only lead to a mistake. The polar bear doesn’t do anything and just waits for the moment so they can strike and eat you. Almost like Jenifer that stocks its prey and waits till the moment is right. We can see Jenifer act like a predator when she had a body of a man she killed put in her freezer so she can eat when she’s hungry. Also when Jim wanted to give Jenifer up she convinced him by crying and giving him a sad face, which made Jim feel bad and took her back home to the farm, that same time she ended up kidnapping a boy and eating him.

                                  

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Like a Polar bear eating a seal. Jenifer eats any living thing in her way to survive. A predator is an organism that lives by preying on other organism. Jenifer can be considered more of a predator than parasite. I think Jenifer is a predator because she puts fear into people’s eyes and makes them feel hopeless. But before people see her face they think she’s just a regular girl that needs help, this can be a way towards attacking her pray so that sooner or later she can live of it by eating it. As a human would see a polar bear and think they were so cute that they would want to pet them, would only lead to a mistake. The polar bear doesn’t do anything and just waits for the moment so they can strike and eat you. Almost like Jenifer that stocks its prey and waits till the moment is right. We can see Jenifer act like a predator when she had a body of a man she killed put in her freezer so she can eat when she’s hungry. Also when Jim wanted to give Jenifer up she convinced him by crying and giving him a sad face, which made Jim feel bad and took her back home to the farm, that same time she ended up kidnapping a boy and eating him. Jennifer is also like a predator because predators are known to getting rid of their competition that they see is dangerous to them. Clearly, Jenifer got rid of the cat that was in jim house, and she also got rid of jim wife by makin her move out the house with his kids, only leaving her with Jim. That is why Jenifer fits more into the predator category, shes an organism that moves from one to another to live of them, they kill to live.

Isolation pic 3

(Picture don’t post) The meaning of isolation can be found in a scene were Jim is laying down on the floor with the light only surrounding him, and darkness all around him, the artist also added a design to the picture were Jim looks to be trapped in a mouth. This isolation is a sign of Jim being trapped by his own soul, he almost feels guilty about what Jenifer has done to others so he tries to forget about it by drinking and reminiscing that he should’ve never saved her from dying.

Isolation pic 2

(picture doesn't post) When Jim moved into a farm and was standing alone right next to his farm house can be considered isolation. This scene is isolation because Jim moved from the city down to a farm house moving away from people, because he wanted to be alone with Jenifer. Jim even says "We found an abandoned farm house, I hit the bottle, forgot about work. Existence was a muddied montage..." (pg. 8).

Isolation pic 1

(Won’t let me post picture) In the scene, the bed is in the middle of the room everything is dark and Jim is in the bed. The camera view is from the roof of the room looking down on Jim. This scene is isolation because the author put the view of the scenario far to show that Jim is alone in a room away from people. The author also wants to make readers feel they are away from Jim by the view. The room is also dark and Jim covers himself with his blanket so that nobody can see him through the window.

Jenifers Smells...

When you read the comic book of Jenifer and you see her you know shes ugly, regarding to the question of how Jenifer smells, I think she smells attractive to others, it couldn't smell bad because they never complained, the wife never tolled her husband to get her out because she smelled, she just dint want her in the house because she was hideous. Also when the man came threw the woods and saved her, he never complained about Jenifer's smell, he actually thought it was a normal girl until he turned her around.