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  1. Oct 2016
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    Watchmen:The Graphic Novel as Trauma Fiction
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    1. megan_liz 01 Oct 2016
      The images of Jon Osterman in the story after he has rebuilt his body &ndash his blueness, his blank eyes, and his nakedness &ndash represent his difference from everyone around him, his alienation from society and his literal removal from humanity. Even the very first picture of his reconstituted body accentuates his separation

      I think it's interesting how this image not only separates him from the rest of humanity, but does so by making him seem god-like, which is not the same kind of separation that I think most trauma victims experience.

    2. megan_liz 01 Oct 2016
      The combination of words and images provide many opportunities for illustrating the impact of traumatic experience

      Graphic novels basically combine the different portrayal benefits of movies and novels.

    3. megan_liz 01 Oct 2016
      mimicking its forms and symptoms, so that temporality and chronology collapse, and narratives are characterized by repetition and indirection

      This technique was definitely apparent in Watchmen - the repetition of certain items in different scenes (the bottle of nostalgia, the smiley face, etc.), and even the panel structures seem to mimic symptoms of the character's traumas.

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  3. Sep 2016
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    Imagetextuality: 'Cutting Up' Again, pt. III
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    1. megan_liz 19 Sep 2016
      This fragmentation of the gaze allows comics to participate in two different ontological and semiotic fields at once

      This kind of reminds me of Schrodinger's cat - a character exists in multiple places simultaneously, and is everywhere at once until we look at a single image at a time and pin the character down there for a while.

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  5. Aug 2016
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    AmericanHeritage.com / THE GERNSBACK CONTINUUM
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    1. megan_liz 31 Aug 2016
      “That’s right,” I said, “or even worse, it could be perfect.”

      I think this is my favorite sentence of this story. It gets right to the heart of what the story is talking about in such a simple way.

    3. megan_liz 31 Aug 2016
      He burped.

      Coming right after the disturbing description of a floating bear head, this phrase caught me off guard and made me laugh, because it seems so normal in comparison to what the man is talking about.

    4. megan_liz 31 Aug 2016
      You’d sit there with a peanut butter sandwich and a glass of milk, and a static-ridden Hollywood baritone would tell you that there was A Flying Car in Your Future

      I noticed immediately that the writer takes a very familiar tone in this - making the reader feel like they've experienced the exact things he's talking about. The tone is also quite poetic despite the format and subject, which I like.

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    The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck
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    1. megan_liz 30 Aug 2016
      The noise waking up the rival, he hears the cries for help, hastens to see what is the matter, and recaptures the beloved one.

      She's a very passive character - not putting up any fight whatsoever regardless of who captures her or how many times she is captured

    6. megan_liz 30 Aug 2016
      His suit being approved

      I also noticed that although his suit is apparently approved of by the woman's parents, the woman herself seems sad, since her head is down in the illustration

    7. megan_liz 30 Aug 2016
      Mr. Oldbuck drinks ass's milk.

      This line/illustration struck me as funny in that it seems so random, even though I'm guessing it's supposed to be part of the doctor's remedy

    8. megan_liz 30 Aug 2016
      Third interview-declaration-sighs-hopes.

      The love story is really interesting - they don't seem to know each other well at all, and yet he is so devastated by her refusal of him, that he tries to kill himself

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