Archetypes in comic books add value

[qorinda]

Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Superman

Comments

[hyperbard]

Hey, great post!! My husband and I both know the value of comics -- sociologically and for other purposes. You know I tend to play computer games to help play out ideas I have for writing, and he in turn writes music for them at times as well as getting ideas for his own compositions... to us comics are a different version of these, and they're just as useful. Hell, my brother who's 24 reads "The Green Lantern" when he can.

[qorinda]

Exactly! Comic books are simply another art form, another medium. It's one that has both words AND pictures, and so appeals to different learning styles. I am ever amazed at the way that comic books can say so little with such impact!