Lit. Comics - Emory Widman

Question 1.)  I was quite please with what I have just read, it is a powerful story with insightful writing, The Killing Joke is widely regarded as one of the best Batman stories to date especially within the comic community. I believe that The Killing Joke is one of the reasons we really have the Joker we have today, a fully three dimensional character that is truly scary at times. Having read this before I was able to pick up on things that I had not noticed the first time particularly within the art. I would say for certain that this is a great comic to read and will continue to be praised as one of the greatest Batman comics. Question 2.)  Within this story I really connected to the idea that both the hero and villain are still in the end just fallible people as much as anyone else and can die just like anyone else too. The Joker and Batman are almost like a really bad marriage they loath each other yet neither one seems to budge one way or another, typically when two f...

The Fountain has had some of the most interesting and beautiful art in any comic I have seen in some time recently, Kent Williams employs very similar artistic embellishment as to Gustav Klimt. Kent starkly contrasts very simple designs against elegantly detailed watercolors. The story is surreal and non-linear, which is to be expected from the director of 'Mother!' Alice in Sunderland Alice in Sunderland is a very strange comic which uses multiple methods of storytelling sometimes with panels, sometimes without, almost collage-like arrays of imagery strewn across the page with reckless abandon to give to more context into what the narrator is talking about, the story covers a huge spread of subjects from dinosaurs to doctor who. There is very little telling what this story is entirely about, but one thing's for certain it sure as hell feels like the chaos and mayhem of wonderland. 'Why I hate Saturn' seems to assume the reader knows about the beatnik generatio...