More from the same.
The Artful Readers Club for March
The Walking Dead Compendium One by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard { and some other folks} Charlie Adlard recently admitted in an interview that he often makes up his characters on the page. A fact which can cause any serious character designer to bow in admiration. As you can see the likeness of the graphic novel with the AMC show is very close. Tweet Review: A long, arduous display of how a few people can entertain the masses. Since I am reading and watching The Walking Dead simultaneously, I am constantly comparing the two. Fans of the television series will be pleased to know that the graphic novel is just as interesting, if not more so. The details are very different in the first 48 issues of the graphic novel, for example, Carl is a lot younger and has a playmate Sophie..whose fate in the television series is quite astonishing. There are endless differences, but the overall storyline remains consistent in both versions which is; what happens to people during a...
My favorite of these is the third. However, I want to make a comment about the selection of images rather than the images themselves this time.
ReplyDeleteThere are three images. I am reading page down and assuming this is the same order as the selection.
The first image is a woman, somewhat of a Medieval style about her. Importantly, she appears to be blind (although her eyes may simply be downcast). She seems to be sad, rather than shy. A rainbow of colour sits against her dress. The holding of flowers/the secret mermaid captured on her blue dress like water (the green tail) - the sun on the water which dazzles us. The beautiful blindness of rapture.
Now the second image. Now the angel looks down at us, from a vantage that we cannot share. We literally can't catch his height. Again, he is blue, like the dress before.
And now, the third image: the third sight that we cannot share. It is first of all, rosy pink and not blue. Less ethereal, less cerulean... Less innocent. And this time, the look is being forcefully blinded by an evil looking man. The male gaze dominates the female gaze.
Three interesting variations on blindness, each with different meanings...