Marvel Comics

Squad and Man of Steel. Together these movies alone account for $1.64 billion in sales ("DC Comics" Boxofficemojo.com). As can be seen, DC Entertainment has acquired a large fan base. Lastly, DC Entertainment has already created a storyline that Disney can adopt. This includes well-known heroes and villains such as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Joker. A weakness faced is brand confusion between Marvel superheroes and DC superheroes. This is a major challenge that DC Entertainment must…

history. While many of these heroes have been alive on the pages of comics for decades, the recent progression of more racially and gender diverse characters on screen have shed light on the evolution of a superhero and the complexity of their roles in society. Comic books have been around since the 1800s, but the superheroes that audiences know and love today date back to the 1930s, an era commonly referred to as the Golden Age of Comics (according to Johnson, Jamahl). During this time period,…

of years, then moved to California when he was about six years old. They would occasionally have a few comics around their house, but he would mostly get them when he was sick. His mother would go the the drugstore to get medicine and he would usual ask for her to get some comics. Once he got older and had an allowance he would spend some of his money on comics. He didn’t get seriously into comics until he was 12 or 13 years old. His first serious exposure to super-heroes was in Adam West Batman…

and Away The recent popularity of DC comics’ movie “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” has turned heads at the box office at a whopping $424.1 million its opening week. So what is a superhero? Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines as a fictional hero having extraordinary or superhuman powers; also: an exceptionally skillful or successful person (Superhero, n.d.). The Important question to be answered is why are superheroes so appealing? History Superhero comics came to prominence in the…

believe can do with some unpacking is a comic book character’s role in rhetoric. Since the genesis of Marvel and DC the…

Comic have been one of the newest forms of literature, with the first comic strips being introduced nearly 120 years ago. One cartoonist who has been instrumental to comics gaining notoriety in recent years is Art Spiegelman, who drew and wrote Maus: A Survivors Tale. This series of comics gives a detailed account of Art’s Father, Vladek Spiegelman and his survival of the Holocaust. While the world is no stranger to Holocaust literature, Maus brought the genre to comics in a manner which takes…

father and her husbands affairs. The color scheme that a graphic novelist uses in his or her narratives go a long way in describing the setting and tone of the story. Ware uses a different color scheme for the two separate pages of his comic. On the first page of the comic, for instance, the colors are more bright and vivid; giving it a happier, more relaxed tone. Ware uses a bright panel when he illustrates the grandmother and the little girl bonding in the kitchen while cooking pancakes (Ware…

If there was one article that really stuck out to me throughout the semester, it has to be Nagel’s “What Is It Like to Be a Bat”. It’s concept and philosophy fixed itself into me and I tried applying those ideas to other articles as we went on. This article addresses one of the big questions of consciousness that tends to float around when discussing philosophy, which is what is it like to be something other than yourself? It isn’t too often that you debate on whether or not something or someone…

Scott Mccloud’s discussion in Chapter 7 identifies comics as one of the various forms of “self-expression and communication” (Mccloud 162). Mccloud elaborates on his ideology by denoting art is anything that does not involve reproduction or survival (Mccloud 165). For example, making music or dancing is not imperative for our survival, however they strengthen our mental statues and overall health (i.e. exercise). Lastly, Scott states there are six steps that every work in every medium will…

Comics, graphic novels and manga can tie generations together, can start a trend or a give a group of friends a place just to hang out. And the store that houses them can make a difference. Going into a mainstream store as opposed to a smaller-in the hole-comics/graphic novel store is a bit different. For instance, you really have to dig deep within the comic locator or friends of friends to find these small-tucked in the corner of nowhere-places. The mainstream bookstore that I went to was…