{"id":573,"date":"2008-10-08T08:33:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T12:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/?p=573"},"modified":"2008-10-08T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T12:33:35","slug":"blog-on-comics-jason-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/10\/08\/blog-on-comics-jason-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog on Comics & Jason Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Understanding Comics<\/em>, pages 138-215<\/p>\n

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First I wanted to comment on what one student said yesterday\u2014that for Japan comics to be \u201creal\u201d comics and not inferior, they could not use color, I did not know that and found that very interesting\u2014could that also be why nearly 95% of this book is in black and white? <\/span>One note on page 152, the author suggests both words and pictures can have great powers when authors exploit them both. <\/span>The six steps are noted on page 170 as: idea\/purpose, form, idiom, structure, craft and surface. <\/span>I must say chapter 8 was my favorite chapter; while I do not mind reading about comics or comics themselves say in a newspaper, I think the medium has a part to play with how you read this book. <\/span>Knowing that there are colors at the end makes me very interested in the ending; whereas when you read a newspaper (in the old days) many of the comics were black and white and the newspaper itself as a grayish color where as this book\u2019s background is typically stark white. <\/span>On page 188 it states the color began to symbolize the character, such as blue with Superman or blue\/yellow with Wolverine, I find this very true\u2014from the earliest days when I saw some X-Men comics, Wolverine had always been dressed in a yellow and blue costume. <\/span>When the series came out as a cartoon on television, Wolverine had a different costume, this time brown and an orange color. <\/span>I would have preferred it to stay the same, what I always had known. <\/span>The juxtaposition of b&w and color on page 192 is very good example that helps to express his key points and ideas. <\/span>For the final pages of the book, after reviewing the Buffy comic book, I think more contemporary comic books follow the sequential art theme; however, the \u201cMous\u201d comic book also inherited some of the traits, such as the various spacing between the slides and how the gutter is used. <\/span>However, with the Buffy comic, one could clearly see all sorts of sequential art and use of the gutter that was not typical of older comics, particularly \u201cMous,\u201d which was the first comic book we reviewed.<\/p>\n

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Jason Nelson, The Bomar Gene<\/a> and game, game, game and again game<\/a><\/p>\n

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I have reviewed and written a paper or blog about the Bomar gene previously; so I will not say too much about it. <\/span>Much of it was revealed and discussed in one of the English 325 recitations or classes in reference to what it actually meant\u2014however, that was a while ago\u2014so I do not want to reveal what I think I know, as it may not be very accurate as it occurred a while ago.<\/p>\n

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Regarding Game, Game, Game and Again Game.<\/p>\n

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Unlike the Bomar Gene, we have some nice clear instructions and an about and it suggests you read them before starting, well sound advice indeed! <\/span>The game was interesting, different music tracks for each level but I felt like I wanted to complete and win the game and that is what I focused on; however, I did notice when you progress in the game lots of words and phrases pop up in various places. <\/span>My first and obvious question though is what is icon\/sprite that \u201cyou\u201d are in this game supposed to represent? <\/span>To me, the sprite resembles a hairball. <\/span>I did click one of the bull\u2019s-eye buttons that said \u201cclick here\u201d and it plays an embedded video within the flash medium itself. <\/span>I finished it and I like how it ends, with cold-hard reality in the line at the bottom\u2014but the comment at the top right, I am not sure what the author is portraying there. <\/span>At the end you are also presented with a video \u201cPossible Evolution,\u201d the words \u201cLARGE WINNINGS\u201d are shown above it\u2014so, well, I clicked this one. <\/span>The author is filming potatoes and glasses; he is talking like a vampire or something and talking about orange juice. <\/span>Then he starts playing with some seeds, he makes a mess, they fall all over his kitchen floor. <\/span>Two of the seeds or one of them goes into the freezer, all which is left of their species. <\/span>When that is happening, you also see the author likes multi-grain bread in the freezer, certainly an odd video. <\/span>It is supposed to be the story of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Understanding Comics, pages 138-215 First I wanted to comment on what one student said yesterday\u2014that for Japan comics to be \u201creal\u201d comics and not inferior, they could not use color, I did not know that and found that very interesting\u2014could that also be why nearly 95% of this book is in black and white? One … Continue reading Blog on Comics & Jason Nelson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}