Friday, October 21, 2011

The Witch And Wolverine

The graphic novel The Witch has alot more fresh colors such as it seems more up to date as in the graphic novel Wolverine the colors or more dull and don't pop out as much to show the oldness of the comic itself. In Wolverine 1 panel 5 you can see the artist didn't close in the panel so you can see the action such as wolverine fighting the bear an the bear standind up on its legs against wolverine then after he kills the bear all you see is a shadow of wolverine an just a blood colored background.

The artist for Wolverine shows how the before and after effect of wolverine cutting through someone such as in panel 16 wolverine2 theres a great effect of before an after when wolverine clashes with a samurai and the panel after shows the samurai drop dead so thats also a great way the artist portrayed a fight scene in the graphic novel in Wolverine, Also in the novel Witch the artist aslo does the before an after effect when Kylie gets mugged for her money and she falls an in a slight moment of fear he familiar comes out an beats up the guy in 2 different panels.


The difference in the two novels is that in Wolverine there is more shadow and dull colors due to the date of the comic and all the action in this comic usually takes place at night, theres more shadow textures in the cuts and blood that comes out when Wolverine cuts down his enemies. In The Witch Kylie doesnt have more shadowy textures since she has scenes that don't invole any fighting or action but more of her trying to understand her new found powers of being a witch. The panel sizes are much bigger in The Witch and I believe that is because artist wants the reader to see the full size of familair and him fighting for Kylie.

In conclusion the two graphic novels that I have read share few similarities a towards the colors that the atrists chose to used because of the dates that both graphic novels were released. The shadow textures that were used are partially the same but only when Kylie summoned her familiar is when the shadow textures came out unlike in Wolverine since he's always in action and constanly killing at around night time there was always a shadowy texture for that graphic novel. They both shared a big panel size because of the atrist wanting to show all the action and scenes to what happened and how the fighting looks.

1 comment:

  1. I think you have it in you to do much better work than is currently being shown. The essay is passable. It would have been great if you fleshed out your ideas. You compare and contrast the basic elements of what was asked, but you don't really analyze the works. For example, I wanted to know why you thought the effect of Wolverine and the Samurai was great. Also, you need to work on your intro paragraph...it feels like I walked into a conversation half way through. An intro should lay it out clearly for the reader...18 out of 25

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