Sunday, October 10, 2010

I have mixed feeling about the MAD spoofs on batman and superman, and i think the other one we were supposed to read was Lone Stranger, though the numbers were off....
anyway, they were funny in some ways it seems a little over the top and it was hard to get into.
Batman: Robin dies at Dawn, was ... interesting. I liked how they showed batman with a weakness of emotion there, being so distraught that Robin might have died he can't preform and then risking it at the end to save robin's life anyway. Its a cool idea, and even if it has been used a lot.
I really liked Melvin the Monster, it was probably my favorite in this run. The story line was cute, and inventive when it came to the monsters and what they do as a everyday thing that we would take as very weird. i also like how innocent Melvin was. he didn't really care what people did to him, he all thought it was a game. Like when the little girl let him out of the cage at the 'zoo' and helped him escape only to find him back in it the next because he 'liked the food'. hee

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  1. I agree, I really loved Melvin the Monster. It had a lot of really cute recurring jokes, but it never got boring and didn't feel as repetitive as a lot of its contemporaries. I especially enjoyed the jokes about school and about Cleopatra the hungry alligator (or crocodile? I don't remember). And all the jokes about being such a bad monster because he was good… I also vastly enjoyed the Mummy's character. I usually really don't like the depictions of female characters in older comics, but she was very amusing. She had a very particular personality.

    But I also really loved the story of Herbie. I thought he was just the funniest little superhero type… boy… something… ever. It was a lot of fun to read because it was so different. The boy who can do anything but does nothing at all! I thought it was very clever.

    So it's actually a tie between them… I wish I could recommend them both -- recommend both of these instead of something from last week. But I don't think I can do that… (if I can, awesome!) so from last week, I would have to recommend Shazam! because, once again, I really enjoyed Billy Batson. I think I would have liked the Best Crime Comics better if we had different selections from them… they were enjoyable, but… not at the same time. I found them a bit hard to get into, like they were trying to push me away. However, I think they are good to look at from a standpoint of seeing the moralizing side of horror comics.

    As for other comics… I also had mixed feelings about the MAD Archives. They were both funny and disgusting at the same time and the art both intrigued and repelled me. Of course, I know this is the nature of a lot of the MAD stuff… repelling the reader but bringing them back. Very odd combination. As for the selections, I think the SUPERDUPERMAN was the best one. I didn't really like the punchline for the Batboy one very much -- it was pretty hackneyed and I like Robin/Rubin best when he's alive. But Superduperman did have some interesting points -- honestly, Clark Kent isn't so bad… if he were, he'd be like Clark Bent.

    I enjoyed the Batman comics. I found them a lot more enjoyable than some of the Batman and Superman comics we read earlier -- probably because it made the relationships between the characters more tangible and it seemed a bit less hokey than usual… a bit… ish.

    As for the Challengers… I still don't really enjoy them. I hate what June has turned into and I still can't even distinguish the Challengers from one another. They all just seem like four versions of the same person. Their personalities don't separate (for me) enough for me to distinguish them.

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