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If you imagine explaining comic and graphic novel genres to an alien, it might look like something out of the Mean Girls lunch tour scene. Webcomics in particular are interesting to look at because they don’t require any capital investment before reading. The author creates the story in front of an audience who consumes the […]
Introduction So, I’ve done my past three blog posts on either the MCU, Marvel in general, or a Marvel franchise. I thought it would be fitting to finish up with another Marvel post. This time I’ll be perusing the Fantastic Four franchise to figure out why it always ends up being terrible movies. I’ve mentioned […]
One of the things that my grandson, PJ, loves to do is to look at his reflection anywhere he can see it. He talks, laughs, dances, and loves doing various poses. Watching his growth changes throughout his short nine years has been a joy. PJ has gone from being reclusive, except with his mother and […]
This semester, I am taking an education class that teaches how to incorporate the different arts into the classroom. Recently, we completed an example lesson where we had to create a dance based on the process of how a cloud is formed. This incorporation of art to teach about the clouds reminded me of an […]
Alison Bechdel’s father, Bruce, is characterized in Fun Home by his passion for historic preservation and obsessive desire to restore their historic home to its original glory. As a historic preservation major, I thought it might be nice to provide some basic background information about the subject. Standards for historic preservation are set by the […]
I have been racking my brain now for hours, trying to decide what to write on this freaking blog. Nothing has yet come to me. I think my mind is slowly leaving me. So young too, I thought I would for sure have another nine years at least before it started to wander off and […]
More like Mean Girls is the tamer version of Heathers, since Heathers after all did come first and stars the amazing Winona Ryder as the main character, Veronica Sawyer. While Mean Girls stars Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron and in many ways the two movies are similar. Of course, Heathers is rated R, so there […]
Alright party people, buckle up for a ride and let’s enter a pointless and misguided thesis this fine evening: visual novels are comics and i dare you to prove me wrong First up, what is a visual novel? Simply put, Visual Novels (VNLs from here on out) are a kind of game marked by minimal […]
TW: Some disturbing images and references, body horror shown It can be easily said that Junji Ito is one of the most, if not the most, recognizable and famous horror manga artists ever. Even if you aren’t into horror manga, the likelihood that you have seen his work before is pretty high, with some of […]