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Mobile Suits And Gundam Styles: A Discussion of Mobile Suit Gundam, Part 2

03 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith in Comics/Graphic Novels, Guest Authors, science fiction, The Comics Classroom

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You’re back and ready for more conversations about giant robots fighting in space and my opinions about them.  Or else you’re just killing time because you’ve got some friends on the way and there isn’t enough time to play video games, but there is plenty of time to skim through a blog post while you wait.  Whatever your reasons, just know that I respect them, and you need to start helping your partner do the dishes more often.

This second post continues in much the same format as the previous, however this time around Michael will be asking me the questions and I’ll be providing my thoughts and insights about the first volume of the Manga Mobile Suit Gundam.  It’s been a fascinating enterprize and already the pair of us are formulating a sequel to this work, perhaps something by Grant Morrison.  For the time being it’s been a delight exploring a topic through a mutual exchange rather than the lens of my own psyche.

Mobile Suit Gundam is an incredible manga, but I’ll let the discourse speak for itself.

Hope you enjoy.

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MY QUESTIONS FOR YOU:

1. I know there are tends within some circles to see Gundam as a ‘giant robot’ series, and that isn’t wrong, but as I re-read this series I am always struck by the other elements at play, issues like politics and history and rights. What would you say serves as the more interesting angle for you so far: the setting or the machines?MSG 3

It’s been a while since I finished the first manga in the series, but honestly based upon my reflection so much of the work was action driven.  Tomino often has lengthy passages of shit blowing up, tanks firing their weapons, and of course the Gundam suits fighting back and forth in-between firing massive firearms.  Now having read the second book I understand that there is significant development but looking at the first volume alone it felt to me that there was a far greater emphasis placed upon the machines, specifically their capabilities.  Now given that the work was coming out of the 1970s the giant robot aesthetic doesn’t hurt the book at all, and to give it the credit that it does I was impressed by how well the work was able to convey not just violence, but action period.

In my own writing and comics, I try to emphasize physical action more because it feels more important and so my reading is likely biased by that aesthetic.Mobile Gundam

Tomino creates a setting that feels both believable, and every time I was in the command center of a ship, or inside one of the Gundam suits, or even simply on one of the terra-forming space colonies I felt I was seeing a real world, however there was not enough detail to really make me feel like I was in this world.  There was more emphasis played upon the physical action as well as the dramatic tension.  Therefore, personally I tended to follow that more than the set-up of the mythos, politics, or setting.

 

  1. I have never made light of my dislike for Amuro Ray, but that is also because I am more invested in Char and his history. Gundam The Origin is a complex re-release of the original Gundam story, so I sort of know what to expect going in. As a new reader, what characters do you find yourself most interested in and why? Or, if not05b558fe862346ebbba7c6a5f2c4467dcharacters, what concepts or conflicts interest you the most?

What’s fascinating is having just started the series I completely agree as well, Amuro is not an interesting character to me.  It’s not that he doesn’t have a conflict it’s just that he doesn’t compel me as a reader.  There’s nothing really apart from the fact that he’s operating the Gundam that keeps me interested in his particular and individual struggle.  Also, he’s kinda of a dick to the women which immediately turns me off.

Honestly, and this is the strange part, Char was a far more dynamic character because, as you so excellently pointed it out, he seems to be far more complex.  His motivations are not clear, and he has a history that provides me, as a reader, with a feeling that this character has some depth.  I’m compelled to keep reading to figure out more about his character.

Sayla Mass is also interesting to me, partly because I like any book that doesn’t shoe-horn female characters to one side or else turn them simply into ditzes and/or sidekicks.  But looking at her she has a real presence, confidence, and dynamic that makes her enjoyable to read.17484067970_0b899dc6d4_b

Honestly thought, I’ve saved him for last but the most interesting character to me personally is Bright Noa.  From the start of the book he seemed to have so much stacked against him and as the first volume went through he evolved incredibly to me as a character that, while not always sympathetic, was someone that I could believe in and hope for.  There is a fascinating dynamic in his character where he has to play the young military figure who must assume command, but rather than become a simple two-dimensional figure in a nice suit he’s complicated.  The reader can see him constantly struggling to maintain his calm in the face of almost certain oblivion, and he struggles to be a real leader.  It might be because I personally am NOT a leader by any means, I avoid power and influence in any sort of professional capacity, and so I think what’s fascinating as a reader of this series is observing this character struggling to be the leader everyone needs him to be.  The toll that this takes on him, and his fight to survive and save his crew is almost admirable.  I just loved Bright Noa, even when he was an asshole.

 

  1. The US has no real tradition of giant robots, outside of material that (funny enough) is honoring shows and stories LIKE Gundam. Without feeling like you need to worry about understanding any kind of Japanese vs Western conventions, what things ‘work’ for you, as Western reader, to find this universe worth reading about?MSG 2

To be honest, after finishing the first volume I couldn’t tell you.  I’m not sure why I honestly continued reading to the second volume.  Despite my previous praise of the characters in the story there wasn’t much to the book in terms of personal interest.  Like I said the book was fascinating to observe because it has an interesting approach on presenting physical action without sacrificing the detail.  Too often I’ve read Manga that just devolves into talking heads with occasional bursts of physical displays of power.

I think part of what kept me going was that I recognized that this book continues to exist through sheer force of influence and recognition.  It’s a book that’s laid a foundation and it’s been around for ages and therefore it’s worth reading if only to understand why it has survived this long.  I think there’s also some part of me who watched five minutes of the anime series when I was just a teenager who could stay up late and watched a few minutes of the show before saying “what the fuck was that?” and then promptly changing the channel.gundam-1

I was tempted to say I’m not really a “western reader,” but a simple analysis reveals this as bullshit.  I am STEEPED in the Western tradition, and the fact that I’m trying to read every play by William Shakespeare is enough to prove this.  I suspect then what’s keeping me reading the balance of concern for character, the trope of the hero overcoming a great evil.  I suspect there’s also some cowboy in my who simply enjoys watching shit blow up and watching giant robots fight to the death.

I don’t feel like I’ve answered this question efficiently because, really, theChar 3reputation of the book is more what’s going to keep me reading past the first volume.  I hate saying it like that, and I’m not implying the book has no merit, but as an introduction the first book does not really seem, to me, to be much inspiration to continue reading.

 

  1. If you can, has this manga subverted, exceeded or met your expectations? Can you explain why?

Having read at least few Mangas in my time (Black Lagoon, Akira, and at least two volumes of Lone Wolfe and Cub being my favorites) Mobile Suit Gundam met my general expectations but after going through these questions I’ve begun to really re-assess my reading of the first book.  I’m fortunate to not be too knowledgeable about the lasting impact of the series, and there wasn’t any real hype pre-reading.  I simply saw the books come through the library over and over again while I was shelving them.  And because the first volume has a great big robot on the cover I thought, “Fuck it.  Let’s give it a try.”

Mobile Gundam 3The first volume more-or-less met my expectations because there really wasn’t much in the book that veered away from the more traditional narrative structures of Manga.  And while there was much more emphasis on space and place, by the end of the book I wasn’t left with a feeling that I had read something greater than any previous Eastern comic I had ever read.

This is all just a way of saying, my reaction was by no means “meh,” but it was not “That was amazing.”

 

  1. What sorts of things do you hope will develop and occur in the future Gundam stories, if you should keep reading?

I would like to find some reason to give a damn about Amuro.  I mean, really that’s it.  Char, Sayla, and Bright are what’s keeping me reading, and to some extent the3dd0aeaf85608c4dd2df9bc20c7a92d643eedb33_hq military drama that’s taking place.  I would like a little more interaction with the planet Earth as a territory for narrative because I honestly am not too much of a fan of High Sci-Fi.  I like the speculative fiction element that is grounded in the reality that mankind is distancing itself from Earth but is not entirely divorced from the home-planet.

I am also interested in seeing how the female characters will develop as the text continues because I’ve too often read stories where female characters in Manga have been reduced into giggly sex-dolls.  Neither of the women in the book thus far have devolved into that particular stereotype and it leaves me hopeful that the book will balance a concern for their characters and not just be a patriarchal action-movie book.

And finally, I would like to see how the presentation of physical action and warfare develops if it develops at all.  Sometimes the fights are just dramatic lines on the page and I would like to see if the art becomes a little more nuanced and detailed.  I would understand if it doesn’t, but I still enjoy artists that try to create their world, and realism can heighten violence and action dramatically.

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About the Authors:

Michael Hale

Michael Hale is currently a PhD Candidate for the University of Texas at Arlington. He publishes for Comicosity through the Comics Classroom column series.

If you would like to read more work by Michael, and I most certainly recomend you do, you can find many of his essays by following the link below:

http://www.comicosity.com/category/special-features/columns/the-comics-classroom/

 

Joshua “Jammer” Smith

Really?  Really?  REALLY?!  We’re really doing this bit again?  I’m the goddamned head writer for this site and you people STILL don’t know who I am.  I’m Jammer.  Jammer.  What?  No I’m not the guy who writes FrameRate.  That’s TJ Rankin.  Here’s a link to his site.

https://frameratesite.wordpress.com

Now if you’re interested in my opinion about Fun Home or the writing of Albert Camus I can, wait, where are go-.

[Door slams as reader pursues more worthwhile, or at least far less tedious content]

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Mobile Suit Gundam: An Exchange of Ideas, Opinions, and Intellectual Observations of Giant Robot Warriors Blowing S**t Up in Space, PART 1

12 Sunday Aug 2018

Posted by Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith in Book Review, Comics/Graphic Novels, Guest Authors, science fiction, The Comics Classroom

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I’m the sort of person who, when asked if I would like to participate in a back-and-forth text-based dialogue dedicated to intellectualizing and examining a genre-defining manga with a former college classmate my immediate response is: Hell fuckin’ yeah that sounds fucking amazing.  I’m fortunate enough to have friends who suggest such amazing enterprises, and so when my friend Michael Greenhale saw through my regular GoodReads-Facebook posts that I was reading the first volume of Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin, he proposed this dialogue in what I assume was a melodic tone.  I’m honestly not much of a fan of the Manga genre of comics (it’s the uniformity of the artwork that nerves on me), but at the same time I try open myself to new ideas and new art-forms,MSG 3and so this back-and-forth exchange seemed a chance to open my doors to Manga once more.

I asked Michael if he would mind if I published our exchange here on White Tower Musings and he magnanimously said yes.  Michael began by asking me to compose five questions about the series Mobile Suit Gundam, and these questions were designed to get the conversation going about the series, as well as to determine “where I was” in terms of my knowledge of the series and the genre.  He answered each of these questions, demonstrating his capacity to reveal intellectual insight into almost anything, and also making me realize I should have added a few more three-syllabic words in my questions.  What follows then is the first half of our exchange of Volume 1.  Please enjoy, and please also forgive my woefully pathetic responses.  Michael’s the true genius here and it should probably become apparent.

Also before my reader objects, yes I’m publishing my correspondence as content here.  The end of the letter-based, paper-based communication strategies has created a desert for future historians to understand how people communicated and so I’m doing my part for the future scholars.  What are you doing with your Instagraming and Face-timing?  Huh?  Answer me that.

Please enjoy.

 

Mobile Suit Gundam Q&A Volume 1


1. It seems that the story largely follows the struggle of a “post-Earth” society warring mostly through animatronic suits. A kinda of uber-Iron-Man mechanization. Why is the size of these suits so significant? Or put it another way, why does the technology have to increase the body so that it becomes greater.Mobile Gundam 3

ANSWER: I think one of the neat things within the Gundam UC (Universal Century) setting is that while, yes there are mobile suits such as Gundams and Guntanks and similar tools, there are also what could be classified as ‘conventional’ space-ships. There are also the units such as the RB-Ball unit ships, right? These things are big spheres with arms and thrusters, they look like something more closely related to what you might see in today’s space construction operations. I think part of the idea within the setting is that war has different tools for different jobs, although the book we’re talking about, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin #1 obviously has the highlight be, surprise (!), the Gundam unit. Still, there is obviously a tremendous amount of ship-to-ship combat, along with conventional land-based vehicles being used against mobile units, etc…

So, I’ll mention something about the ‘size’ issue in a meta and then a non-meta manner. In terms of the nature of the story, back when this series was first made in the 70s, manga robot stories were inspired by, I am dead serious, Marvel comics. There was a Spider-Man giant robot called Leopardon that aired in 1978/79. Gundam came about in 79/80, so some of the convention about the issue of size, I think, was that Tomino and Yatate wanted to capitalize on something fun. I mean, look, there are things you do because they ‘make sense,’ and there are things you do to make a story interesting. AMobile Gundam 2serious story with space colonies and war will sell better and be more interesting to watch if, hey, they have giant robots. Gundam was an anime first and a manga second, so the initial idea always revolved around making something that young kids and teens would want to watch.

Gundam: The Origin is a very beautiful kind of ‘HD Remix’ of the original Gundam story from the 70s. While there are a lot of superficial changes, the idea is still the same and the plot is ‘the same, but expanded,’ if that makes sense? Think of it as the Deluxe Game of the Year Edition, with all the narrative DLC packs installed so you get the Char Backstory DLC, the Zeon/Federation Lore DCL, etc… So, in a ‘meta’ sense, there are these things called Minovsky Particles which are mentioned but not explained thoroughly until later in the manga. They’re sort of an answer to the idea that, if you’re in space, why would you want to let yourself be targeted by long range missiles or lasers? Minovsky Particles jam radar and disable ‘lock on’ technology. The meta answer to why these things exist is because Tomino said there’d be no reason for giant robots to exist if there could be long range weapons that worked all the time. Mobile suits, in a ‘meta’9781935654872_books-Gundam,-Mobile-Suit-The-Origin-Graphic-Novel-1-Hardcoversense, exist to fill a combat role where there is 1) no ability to have tracking weapons that are reliable and 2) where you’re dealing with vehicles that need to transition from a zero-g to gravity impacted environment. The design being based around a human, I believe, helps facilitate a ‘human’ flow to combat between mechs. You need a multi-terrain capable weapon delivery system that can, feasibly, traverse artificial mountains or barriers, go inside and outside ships and colonies, and also be suitable to repair and salvage operations. The issue of size is more that, to accommodate the supposedly ‘large’ power cores these things carry, they’re around as big as a modern tank in terms of mass, but they walk upright to accommodate the mobility that bipedal legs affords.

2. The art seems to balance between a kinda of realism and cartoony elements. Is this just because of the manga elements?

ANSWER: I am not sure what you might mean by ‘cartoony,’ exactly, but I’ll pick two examples of what I believe purpose is. There are instances where, say, characters make exaggerated faces or sort of ‘devolve’ into more comical moments. Fraw has some of these early on, as does Bright. One thing to keep in mind is that Gundam The Origin isMSG Manga 2still an adaption of the original Gundam story which was a 1970s genre anime. Tomino was very sure that kids were his target audience, but that didn’t mean he was going to ignore older audiences. There are a pack of kid characters in the anime who are extremely, uh, ‘cartoonish,’ but that is also because young kids were watching. The idea of exaggerated faces is a holdover from early animation anime needing to produce lots of results on short budgets and limited time, this it was just easier to show characters with stylized, exaggerated expressions and faces so audiences could know ‘oh, ok, that character is happy’ or ‘that character is being comical.’

I also think that life can be a mixture of things which are both lighthearted and serious, so the narrative’s ability to keep the levity that some characters bring to the story, like Bright’s attitude sort of showing he’s a young officer not suited to the situation he is put into, contrasts with the ‘real life’ nature of what, I argue, makes Gundam an enduring story.

3. The character Char is a bit of an oddity and I worry he fits the cliché model of a manga villain. He sees traditionally handsome in a European sense, and he often acts aloof,Char 2 hidden by a face mark thus allowing a mystery element to him. Is his introduction a satisfactory opening, or does it reek of the traditional manga narrative model?

ANSWER: I think answering this brings up another issue where, in a way, the 1970s story needs to be commented on. Back when Gundam was a TV series, and this was before I believe many of the more conventional anime trends had cooled into ‘genre habits,’ you could think of Char as one of the first prototype ‘handsome villains.’ I am loath to call Char a ‘villain’ since he is as much the heart of the Gundam story as Amuro, but I get why he’d be called such since he antagonizes White Base and the Gundam for a large part of the first manga volume. In a sense, the clichés you might be concerned about are more than likely due to other villains over the decades copying trends set by CharChar 1himself. I am only going to keep things to the first volume since that’s the story we’re talking about, but the idea of a masked enemy character is not really an oddity, I’d think, it’s just a style. A cliché might be what a masked villain would tend to do, and those things are not what Char really does. Consider his actions throughout the manga, for example and consider who and what he is.

Char’s a young character surrounded by grizzled, older war vets or those younger than himself. His superiors like Dozle are part of an upper-crust society, and there are also side figures like Gadem (blink and you’ll miss him, that’s how unimportant he is). Most of the top Zeon fighters who appear later are two Char’s age, so he’s a character who is meant to be more relatable to young boys and girls. He is threatening to Amuro since he is older and more experienced, yet he is young enough to not be leading the Zeon in battle. His looks also sort of serve as an aesthetic thing, right? Who is more likely to be ‘BAAAAAD,’ a scared up, scowl-faced dude with a cape, or Char? I think his looks are meant to make you wonder why somebody handsome and charismatic would beMobile Gundamworking with Zeon. Sure, there are a few other characters on the Zeon side who are attractive and young (one in particular is important because is Char’s age), but again: Char is young and his ‘non-grizzled’ appearance in contrast to virtually EVERY other Zeon character makes you at least say ‘hey, what’s his deal?’ I would argue he is the actual star of Gundam Origin because, compared to Amuro anyway, he has a far more interesting history and ‘story.’

I would also put forth that Char sets a lot of bars which many anime villains, and even Western ones, don’t follow. Char is formidable, but he isn’t stupid. He knows when to fight and when to leave. I won’t spoil anything, but keeping just with his actions in Vol. 1, he is certainly less interested in ‘defeating his enemy, Amuro,’ than he is doing to his job. He has a lot of missions to complete and he is actually less concerned with revenge as he is either doing his duty or winning in the way that is most efficient.Char 3

As for the mask, he removed it quickly enough, so you know there are other reasons perhaps for wearing it. I know what they are and readers who stick with the story will learn in time, but I think his removal of the mask in Vol. 1 when confronted is sort of proof that he isn’t above taking it off and showing his face. I think that is more interesting than, say, him never removing it at all. If he is using the mask as an aesthetic, does it play into the fact that he is a young up-and-comer in the Zeon ranks and is being flashy? Is it misdirection?

I think Char is great because he doesn’t twirl a mustache or brood. He has arrogance and he is prone to playing with his enemies, but he also actually tends to be the best combatant in all confrontations he engages in so … there is a lot of ‘proof’ in this villainous pudding. He laughs, he gets annoyed, he worries, he thinks his way out of bad situations and he acts very human. I don’t think enough manga or anime villains act like Char, and what tends to get copied is the aesthetic alone, the idea of custom weapons or uniforms or masks being enough to make a villain effective. Char is actually a rare kind of character.

4. The notion of terraforming and “off-world” living is a common sci-fi thread, however Mobile Suit Gundam is rather fascinating for the way it presents the terraforming very much in a domestic fashion. The story emphasizes the fact that human are terraforming, rather than trying to explain how the technology works. Does this make it a successful Sci-fi manga or does this actually work against the plot?gundam-1

ANSWER: I was VERY fortunate to have gotten to hear Tomino speak at the University of Houston back in the mid 2000s, around 2005 when I worked for ADV Films. One of the questions he was asked was what inspired him, and he said NASA and the state of modern technology was deeply ingrained in him and his work. He presents space stations that are using what is called an O’Neil Cylinder design, and (if we assume time is based on the Gundam universe advancing from when Tomino plotted the universe) the date is (in our terms) 2158 AD. In a sense, Tomino wrote a universe that was 179 years in the future back in 1978/1979. He was trying to think of how far we’d come, but that out advances would still be limited to conventional issues relating to things like a Lagrane Point, etc… Nothing in Gundam is actually unfeasible, save for the power units of Gundams and mobile suits which are nuclear, and the Minvosky particles themselves. Much of the technology in Gundam doesn’t have to be explained because it’s based on conventional theories that17484067970_0b899dc6d4_b have already been established to work, we’d just need time to get things together. So, the story says ‘shoot, let’s just skip ahead a few decades and say this stuff works so the REAL story can get going.’ I think it is no different than the way the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series worked, for example.

5. The women in the story are very different, creating a split personality almost. One the one side there is the blonde bombshell who is a clean-cut stoic military figure, while on the other there is a ditzy brunette. Do these women seem to have a personality, or do they just follow the more traditional manga gender constructions?

ANSWER: I think limiting the dynamic to just Sayla and Fraw does a disservice to Mirai, who sort of helps set up a good ‘three part’ model of female heroism alongside the male trinity which would be Amuro, Noa and Char. Sayla and Char are older, more confident3dd0aeaf85608c4dd2df9bc20c7a92d643eedb33_hq characters because they’re in that age range where they’re experienced enough to take command and be confident, yet still young enough to not be ‘unrelatable’ to the target reading audience. Sayla, a medic, speaks her mind the same way Fraw does, but she also isn’t a teen. Fraw’s emotional responses to Amuro’s attitude or the horrors of war seem fitting when you consider her age. Sayla, obviously, as a medic, would have seen some STUFF so it would be weird to have her and Fraw behave in the same way. Saya is supposed to be 17 while Fraw is 14 or 15.

You then have Mirai, a confident younger woman who would be a few years older than Fraw and is also older than Sayla. I think she is 18 or 19, thereabouts. She is a character who is as professional as Sayla, but more well suited to the military. She is less open than Sayla or Fraw, but she is also a foil for Noa, who is her parallel. They’re the same age, but she is more assured and emotionally stable than him.

All three women have enough personality that we can tell who they are by their actions. Fraw is a kid who frets and fusses over her friend’s attitude, but who also cries and laughs and acts like a very young teen. Sayla is a more confident character who totallyMSG !pulls a gun on Char and who slaps ignorant dudes. Full stop. Sayla is awesome, but that isn’t to say she is ‘better’ than Fraw or Mirai. Mirao and Sayla both pick up the slack on White Base and hold their own while poor Bright is just trying to keep his head on. I pity Bright, but he also grows into a great character on his own because he has very confident women civilians serving on White Base to make the whole operation function.

If we consider what other kinds of female anime clichés were being cultivated in the 70s, Tomino could be said to have been pioneering a class of very strong female characters who were also human. Believe me, Sayla isn’t all guns and bad-assitude, she has her own share of emotional issues, but it isn’t without logic. Mirai, for example is uniquely meant to come from a Japanese family, while characters like Sayla and Fraw are not, thus their attitudes and mannerisms are different.

 

 

 

 

About the Authors:

Michael Hale

Michael Hale is currently a PhD Candidate for the University of Texas at Arlington. He publishes for Comicosity through the Comics Classroom column series.

If you would like to read more work by Michael, and I most certainly recomend you do, you can find many of his essays by following the link below:

http://www.comicosity.com/category/special-features/columns/the-comics-classroom/

 

Joshua “Jammer” Smith

What do you mean, who am I?  I write, run, and operate this shitty blog all the time.  Jeez thanks for noticing…and thanks for not coming to my birthday party.  Jerks!

[Author leaves in a huff slamming the door behind him]

 

 

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The Comics Classroom Presents BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM

28 Wednesday Sep 2016

Posted by Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith in Book Review, Comics/Graphic Novels, mythology, The Comics Classroom

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This is the first publication I have to my credit.  When this essay was written I was still working on my B.A. and the idea that anything I wrote could be published was a bit of a revelation.  I had given a presentation over Arkham Asylum at a school event alongside several other students who had created presentations about Graphic Novels, and a year later, when given the opportunity to write about anything I wanted to, I decided to write down my ideas about Grant Morrison and Dave McKean’s beautiful graphic novel.

My friend Michael Greenhale, who regularly writes a post entitled The Comics Classroom for the site Comicsosity, offered to publish it, and it stands as I said before as the first published essay of mine anywhere on the internet.

If you want to read the entire article simply follow the link below

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The Comics Classroom Presents BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM

Batman Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth remains in my mind the greatest graphic novel ever written due to its complexity, its classical tradition, the way it helped re-create the character of Batman to ensure his cultural relevance to a new generation, and the flawless execution by both the writer Grant Morrison and the artist Dave McKean.

Recently I was given the opportunity to present my views concerning the graphic novel and in this presentation I explained why I felt this work stands as such a triumph by comparing it to the classical oral traditional structure. I will attempt to condense my ideas here and demonstrate that one of the core themes of the work is the journey, and its role in re-creating Batman for a new age.

 

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If you want to read the entire article simply follow the link below:

The Comics Classroom Presents BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM

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The Comics Classroom:Trotsky, The Greatest Evil Hero Genius Monster in Comics History

09 Tuesday Aug 2016

Posted by Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith in Biography, Book Review, Christopher Hitchens, Comics/Graphic Novels, History, Politics, ReBlogged Articles, The Comics Classroom

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My good friend Michael Ryan Greenhale was the first person who published any of my writing.  Originally he let me publish an essay over Batman Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth on his regular blog post series The Comics Classroom which was part of the larger website Comicosity, and from there I’ve steadily built an online presence.  Recently Michael has returned to writing online essays and even started a podcast online where he discusses comics, comics writers, films based on comics, etc.  Being a regular reader of comics, not to mention a fan of Michael’s series The Comics Classroom, I asked him if I could contribute a work and he said yes.

I decided to write a small review about goals, specifically in relation to The Prophet Trilogy by Issac Deustcher, and a slim graphic novel entitled Trotsky by Rick Geary.

To read the entire article follow the link at the end of this post:

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Trostsky, The Greatest Evil Hero Genius Monster in Comics History

One of the most brilliant maxims in human history was spoken by a Go-Go Dancer named Cherry Darling in the film Planet Terror, a film involving lesbianism, explosions, zombies, and said dancer getting her leg ripped off and having it replaced with an assault rifle.  Rey the mechanic, and secretly ex-super soldier El Rey, he meets his ex-girlfriend Cherry in a Barbeque joint.  He asks her briefly if she ever became that fancy doctor she was always talking about, she says no and when he says that she never stopped talking about she replies simply: images

Cherry: That’s the thing about goals, they become the thing you talk about instead of the thing you do.

I had a goal once this year, at the start of the summer.  I had bought through Amazon the, what now stands as, authoritative biography trilogy of Leon Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher.  Trotsky: The Prophet Armed, Trotsky: The Prophet Unarmed, Trotsky: The Prophet Outcast arrived one by one and when all three were together I confessed to a great many people that my goal for the summer was to read all three books.  It was fun telling people that, but as the summer started I found myself gravitating back towards The Bully Pulpit (which I still haven’t finished) but also a slim little graphic novel simply titled Trotsky by Rick Geary.6600626

 

 

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