Week 4 Comic Book

This week I started out with Tin Tin, Explorers on the moon. I use to watch Tin Tin when I was little on TV; I haven’t seen the newish movie though. The panels are the normal square and rectangles that I normally see in comics. The colors are saturated but not too saturated. I don’t remember the show enough to compare writing but overall I thought it was good.

Tales from the Crypt is something I loved to watch as a kid but ive never extensively read the comics. I got some of the DVD seasons a few years ago and the behind the scenes with the comics, was really cool and hearing about the censorship stuff. It also had normal panels that I would expect as well as very saturated colors. The colors add creepy-ness and excitement I think and normally when I think of comics this is the kind I think about with really saturated colors. Tales from the Crypt is a lot more graphic style than Tin Tin with darker shading and brighter colors. I like the little short stories they do instead of one overarching plot thing; it reminds me of a Twilight Zone type thing. Overall I really liked what I read of it.

For my Carl Barks reading I read some Donald Duck, he first thing I noticed right away was that the panels are really wacky shapes and not like the other comics I had just read. The colors were saturated but not to the degree of Tales from the Crypt I think. I think that the panel layout is really nice and dynamic with the different shapes it uses, I really like that its more than just boxes, its funnier to look at. I really like Donald Duck so I really enjoyed reading it.

I also read some Bugs Bunny just because it was under week 4 with the course resources, it was interesting not as colorful and box panels but it was good.

Overall I like comic books being an all at once thing rather than having to wait a week for the news paper, its super convenient. I also really like when colors is comics are more saturated like in Tales from the crypt but I like the non box panels from Donald Duck.