Welcome to Comix in the Classroom!

For the record this was all Frances' idea.  She wanted to do Twitter at first and then decided my job wasn't hard enough dealing with the classroom's tech issues so she made us all create a blog...yay! And now she informed me that we are still going to do Twitter...yay!

Anyway, it seems like a great idea for all of us in the Graphic Novel class to use our Blogs as a way of communicating our ideas and interpretations of the coolest form of media out there....Comic Book Graphic Novels! Don't think they are cool?  Where else can you read and "see" everything from Batman beating the crap out of Superman to the recently dead coming back to life and eating the flesh of the living.  Or better yet read a story about a woman with a monster face who eats children and seduces men to protect her.  Comics are awesome....!

As for you, the students, prepare yourself to read and interpret the many different worlds found in Graphic Novels.  We will find ourselves in horror.  We will watch a man stop at nothing to avenge his loved ones.  We will witness the last Batman story ever written.  So get ready for a journey boys and girls, one which will expand our minds and entertain our imaginations.

Oh, one final thing.  My favorite Graphic Novel of all time is...Wait I forgot to say why I like Graphic Novels.  First, the artwork is what I appreciate the most. Second, the stories are for a lack of a better words...cool.  Actually, they are deeper than most people think taking us readers to places that books don't often do.  So, my favorite character from a Graphic Novel is...

The Crow.  The Graphic Novel the Crow is an awesome piece of fiction, art, poetry and lyrics.  It is a personal journey that deals with the sorrow of loss and the search for redemption.  The work forces you to think about what justice really is and whether or not there is any such thing at all.  If you let it, the Graphic Novel will stay in your head way after you have finished reading it.  So welcome to Graphic Novels...and lets get to work!