Reading Response #3

This Week - On The Night of Melvin's Murder
I enjoy the non-linear storyline of Melvin's Murder, how different perspectives exist simultaneously and imply a plethora of sensation, perception and experience that loops endlessly in upon itself. I also enjoy the drawings that are simplistic and seem geared more towards implying a mood rather than a reality of the physical appearance of the subjects. I enjoy the prominence of longer texts and narrative pieces in this work, as I find the short, choppy language of most comics to be over-simplistic and distracting. Very interesting.

Last Week - Pup 15
Pup 15 from September 11 is pretty interesting to me in its lack of boxes and closure points for the images themselves - I like the atmosphere of open space and timeless that surrounds this comic whose timeline and imagery is literally floating in black space. I like the realism of the backdrop as compared with the simple pup omnipresent observer - it seems to me to exemplify amplification through simplification for me, most especially a cross-breeding between the Japanese manga styles that McCloud brings up for their structural differences. It feels to me like a continual film reel telling a story at once linear and non-linear, as some of the frames seem as if they could be reassembled almost into a different whole. I love Pup's tumultuous and wordless tumble through the cosmos, and his return to a simplified universe.