At the University of Mary Washington
In class today, we talked a little bit about graphic novels and how their stories can be represented and shared through multiple sources of media: TV shows, movies, literature, and even videogames. Many video games have been created from comics and graphic novels, a notable example being any marvel comic turned into action packed games […]
Five years ago, one of the post popular actual play podcasts came into existence. The Adventure Zone is an podcast hosted on the Maximum Fun Network centered around the McElroy family playing dungeons and dragons. The DM (or dungeon master) is Griffin and the players are his brothers Justin and Travis and their father Clint. […]
The Internet is a place of many fanworks, with fans from around the world taking the established properties they love and paying tribute to them through fanart, fanfiction, and various other creations. Some of these fanworks take on a life of their own, transcending their tributary origins to become something original. One such fanwork is […]
Jillian Tamaki’s online webcomic about supermutant teens captures the existential crisis of the teenage years and the ridiculousness of being a teenager.
Disclaimer: Due to the sheer length and depth of both of these works, I have had to skip over some details of plot and character development involving Ozymandias and Griffith. Also spoilers ahead for Watchmen and Berserk. One of the essential parts of any story is the antagonist, someone with bad intentions for the reader to root […]
Some comics just stand out a little too much.
Fantasy and science are often compared due to the radical concepts that can be employed for their respective genres. Eventually, you’ll reach a point where they’re indistinguishable from each other. Fantasy allows us to break the mold of reality and delve into new worlds without being halted by scientific impossibilities. While I prefer fantasy to […]
When I was younger, my mom made me read for an hour a day during the summer. She didn’t care what I read so long as I read something. I used to hate reading, I could never get into anything I picked up. That was until I discovered graphic novels. […]
A discussion of villains and popular villain tropes that may or may not make them interesting to watch.