Art Spiegelman's Jack Cole and Plastic Man

Art Spiegelman's Plastic Man series of comic book bended the rules of a regular super hero. When going into reading this comic book I was expecting a generic super hero and a common scenario were this man saves the day. Though I was surprised to find out what this Plastic Man really was. Plastic Man is a man that can shift into anything that he needs. For example he can stretch him self like a rubber band from panel to panel, or he can shift into an object like a ball. He can even shape shift into a female. It was interesting take on a super hero, and how his powers changed out the layout of a comic book. It also gave leading lines and movement when he stretched himself, making the viewer know where to look next or where to look. It standard traditional color scheme did not hold back the red jumpsuit and yellow belt though. The reading was great, but my only negative about this comic was that its scenarios were border lining predictable and commonly seen in other comics. The new super power of this hero defiantly helped the comic in the long run. 

Herge created many comic book series of Tintin and his adventures. Tintin travels to exotic places in every comic book. Tintin is a famous reporter with Le Petit Vingtieme. In one of his comics he departs for the USSR with his faithful friend Snowy, a white dog. Tintin is on a mission to find out, and report to his young readers back home, in one of his comics, the state of affairs in Soviet Russia. This adventure was the birth of a legend and the first edition of the book that had achieved legendary status among collectors. 

While in class, we read a few comics of Carl Bark's work. Carl is the creator of all of Donald Ducks comic series and his adventures. In one of the comics that I read Donald and his nephews are competing on who can catching animals. Donald says he can catch anything and to prove it he will catch a fox. His nephews though decide to prank their uncle and have him catch a faux fox scarf he gave daisy. Donald though catches his nephews in their little act and decides to find a "wolf" from the pound and claim he caught it. The nephews are shocked from this catch and try to catch themselves one. Though Donald seems to get caught by their trap when trying to show his nephews that their trap stinks. When the nephews go for help they get caught in Donald's other trap. leading them later to be cut down later by bystanders. Then a mouse sales man tries to sell Donald a mouse trap and Donald does not find this funny, slams the door and leave the sells man confused. 

Carl Bark's gives these little critters many gestural poses and facial expressions that  bring the characters alive. The bright colors adds a cartoony feel, and less realistic colors like some comics we saw about wars or batman by DC Comics. The jokes found in the comic are generic, but still makes me crack a few chuckles here and there still. Lets face it you can not beat a classic joke.