Awesome! Awesome to the MAXX!

I don't know if any of you actually read these things... In fact, I'll be brutally honest and say that I often tend to "forget" about this blog, and that we are supposed to contribute to it on a regular basis. Perhaps, it's an age thing. I have no idea. I think that it's kind of stupid to continually tell your story and thoughts on the web, in the hopes that someone will read it. But then again, I prefer to bitch and moan in public. HA HA!!! Anyway, on to the academia!

For any of you nerds and geeks out there, hopefully you recognize my title from an episode of Futurama. When I read comics as a kid (Damn, do I miss the 80's and being a kid!), comics were very 2D. They would flow from left to right, and once in a while you would get a point of view shot. Granted, that a lot of comics were around back then, I was limited to what I could and could not read. (My mom forbade me from watching the Simpsons and Bevis and Butthead.)

But as time progressed, and I was able to sneak around my mom's eagle eye, I started to get into a lot of comics that were dark and full of stories of moral and ethical trials and tribulations. The stories were very in-depth where you started to associate yourself with the characters and their adventures. But more importantly, at least for me, comics were evolving into short films. They started to use different angels, lighting, framing, and other techniques that I found not only fascinating, but inspiring. This inspiration is what would eventually lead me to getting a degree in Film/TV/Radio production, but I digress. As I became more educated and older, I started to realize that comics were and are, able to do things that film and TV could never hope to achieve. Not only out of the lack of technology (at the time), but also the costs of making such productions. The way comics were able to tell the story, was beyond anything that could be found on film or TV. But as technology progressed, the "Comic Nerds" were able to put their concepts into a new medium. With movie adaptations of such comics (or in this case "Graphic Novels" to all you uber-nerds) as 300, The Watchmen, and others, it is becoming apparent that ideas and concepts that seemed to be impossible to produce, are now a regular expectation. I think that the more both mediums are able to combine their individual techniques into a shared platform, the deeper our understanding, response, appreciation, and reverence of these stories will become.

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