Rorschach’s Journal,
The Spidey adventures continue! Just like the professor said, Marvel makes it a point to attract its readers. The front cover quickly establishes that. You get the eight legs of a spider with several images underneath them to show what’s to come. You also notice in the left cover it says “Marvel Pop Art productions”. I thought that was very clever. Even the lettering in the first page that introduces the script, artwork and lettering at followed by some sort of fancy term to describe the artists. Very sly Marvel, very sly. One thing I noticed about Spider Man comics are the words that they use. It’s not the fancy words but how the words make the readers react. For example “awesome”, “scant” and “incredible”. Using words like these make the reader more interested especially if that reader is a young boy or girl. The artist is writing it in the mindset of what any young kid would say if they saw this in real life.
Spider Man comics, especially #31 also have strong message behind it. I’m talking about the message of taking care those around you. In this case, when aunt May falls ill, Peter starts to think how he’s taking advantage of her. Even Aunt May tells us that she’s hiding it from her in order to satisfy him. I felt that Stan Lee did this in order to make boys think of their parents or simply just mothers.
One thing that I noticed was a sex symbol that I saw. Maybe it was nothing but when in Spider Man #33, he lifts up the heavy object from him while water spills all over his body. In Secret Skin essay, I remember it talks about how some costumes look painted on. In this particular scene, Spider Man’s costume does look painted on and it looks like a muscular man lifting weights in a sexy pose. Like I said, maybe it’s nothing but that’s what I got out of it.
Another thing that I have noticed from most superhero comics is the colors. Now colors may not mean a lot to some people but they actually represent a lot. In my Child Literature class, we learned about why children’s books have certain colors and what they represent. For example, black is supposed to be scary or mysterious which is why I think Batman wears a black costume in the Dark Knight Returns. Red is supposed to symbolize blood or fire. Usually it’s meant to fear children but because Spider-Man, Superman and Wonder Woman all have the same colors, it doesn’t give of that effect.
The Spidey adventures continue! Just like the professor said, Marvel makes it a point to attract its readers. The front cover quickly establishes that. You get the eight legs of a spider with several images underneath them to show what’s to come. You also notice in the left cover it says “Marvel Pop Art productions”. I thought that was very clever. Even the lettering in the first page that introduces the script, artwork and lettering at followed by some sort of fancy term to describe the artists. Very sly Marvel, very sly. One thing I noticed about Spider Man comics are the words that they use. It’s not the fancy words but how the words make the readers react. For example “awesome”, “scant” and “incredible”. Using words like these make the reader more interested especially if that reader is a young boy or girl. The artist is writing it in the mindset of what any young kid would say if they saw this in real life.
Spider Man comics, especially #31 also have strong message behind it. I’m talking about the message of taking care those around you. In this case, when aunt May falls ill, Peter starts to think how he’s taking advantage of her. Even Aunt May tells us that she’s hiding it from her in order to satisfy him. I felt that Stan Lee did this in order to make boys think of their parents or simply just mothers.
One thing that I noticed was a sex symbol that I saw. Maybe it was nothing but when in Spider Man #33, he lifts up the heavy object from him while water spills all over his body. In Secret Skin essay, I remember it talks about how some costumes look painted on. In this particular scene, Spider Man’s costume does look painted on and it looks like a muscular man lifting weights in a sexy pose. Like I said, maybe it’s nothing but that’s what I got out of it.
Another thing that I have noticed from most superhero comics is the colors. Now colors may not mean a lot to some people but they actually represent a lot. In my Child Literature class, we learned about why children’s books have certain colors and what they represent. For example, black is supposed to be scary or mysterious which is why I think Batman wears a black costume in the Dark Knight Returns. Red is supposed to symbolize blood or fire. Usually it’s meant to fear children but because Spider-Man, Superman and Wonder Woman all have the same colors, it doesn’t give of that effect.