This was so cool to read! I love that it has an old school feel to it like the art style is from the 80's but it was made so recently! The style is so convincing that I thought these were just scans of an old comic book at first, but when I read these stories and how it talks about artists like LL Cool J and Dr. Dre as if we were looking at them in the past I knew it had to be somewhat more recent. It was so cool to get a look in on the early days of the hip hop industry and see these "cool" rappers in their not-so-cool beginnings. Especially Dr. Dre the World Class Wreckin' Cru is kind of lame in comparison to N.W.A and it's just funny to see that he wasn't always portrayed as a gangster. LL Cool J definitely never had as much swag as Dr. Dre but it was interesting to see him as a kid as well. I had never really heard of Scott La Rock but I enjoyed how at the end of each comic there were clips to watch of each artist performing. That is definitely an added p...
Right off the bat the first thing that stuck out to me was the use of color in The Long Tomorrow. After reading Maus, and March, it was refreshing to see such vibrant use of colors in this comic. The sci-fi theme and plot of the story reminded me of an episode of Love, Death, and Robots that followed a similar plot line. I was shocked out how in you face the sexuality was. It was very real and honest for lack of a better word. I don't think that it was done in a erotic or pornographic way however. It just came off as realistic. It's very cool to see how the medium was taken more seriously in Europe than in America at that time an that Adults were open to reading comics. Silver Surfer was a great read, it was a longer story than The Long Tomorrow and it had more depth. At first, I was a bit lost because I didn't have much backstory on who the Prophet was or why his sister chose to escape and steal a helicopter but it started to make more sense as I read along. The langu...
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