Goodbye Graphic Novels!!!

i just want to say thank you to Dr. Clemente, his class was very good i learned a lot about something i didnt previously know, i liked the way his class ran and feel that overall it was a good semester.

Sincerly,

Sean Wenzel

Recent Activities

War crimes cases are starting to pop up more and more as some of these criminals are being apprehended. here are some of the recent cases

Heads of state & government
To date, the former heads of state and heads of government that have been charged with war crimes include:
Germany Großadmiral Karl Dönitz and Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo of the Empire of Japan in the aftermath of World War II.
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević was brought to trial for war crimes and genocide, but died in custody on March 11, 2006, before the trial could be concluded.
Former Liberian President Charles G. Taylor was also brought to the Hague charged with war crimes; his trial was provisionally scheduled to begin in April 2007, but was postponed until June 2007 to allow the defense more time to prepare, and is now ongoing.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade on 18 July 2008 and brought before Belgrade’s War Crimes Court a few days after. He was extradited to the Netherlands, and is currently in The Hague, in the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He has not yet entered a plea; his next appearance is scheduled for 29 August 2008.
Other prominent indictees
Hermann Göring - Reichsmarschall, Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) and designated successor to Adolf Hitler (until 1945)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner - highest ranking SS leader to face trial.
Adolf Eichmann - senior member of the SS and the "the architect of the Holocaust"
Wilhelm Keitel - Generalfeldmarschall, head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces)
Erich Raeder - Großadmiral, Commander in Chief of the Kriegsmarine from 1928 until his retirement in 1943

The book Maus describes the Holocaust, and its events a great place to find out more or even to make donations is the United States Holocaust Memorial Muesem here is a adress to the page

http://www.ushmm.org/

11 Steps To Survival

Here's 11 Steps to Survival in case of The Big One... I think this is out of Canada, check it out.

http://www.ki4u.com/survive/index.htm

Annoying

This doesn't really have to do with anything... but I have this little pet peeve and it drives me crazy when people pronounce nuclear nukeular... Grrrrr.....

America's First Choice in Post Nuclear Simulation

http://fallout.bethsoft.com/index.html

Apparently this is a really good video game. You have to type in your birthday to enter this site.

Fallout

Here is the trailer/Intro to a movie about Fallout. Check it out. It's kinda weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkBNKa2KXZE

Update

Wow look at this great pick of an abonded motel in North Korea, what was supposed to be the biggest hotel ever is left hollow and unfished and will never be torn down do to the riducouls pride of the North Korean Government.

Sean..

I'm so Ronery

Heres a clip from Team America on You Tube... Kim Jong Il singing I'm so Ronery. If you haven't seen Team America, I definately recommend it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apyB93-1FHk

"Black Friday"

Heres some info I found about Black Friday:
Black Friday was named after the protests that occured on September 8, 1978 in Zhaleh Square, Tehran, Iran. The Iranian Government declared martial law in response to protests against the Shah's rule. The military used deadly forced, including tanks and helicopter gunships to break up the largely peaceful demonstrations. The death toll was at 88 to 89, including 3 women.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5755xzFSbY

*s

Watchmen= Amazing

finished it this week, thought the combination of multiple stories in one allows many thoughts and personal response by the reader. Mr. Manhatten personal transformation, and the reveling of Rorshach and his inner personalities, its a great book.

Watchmen

I just wanted to make this comment: I find the wording in the comic within this comic really good. For example, on page 2 of Chapter 3 it says: "Bosun Ridley lay nearby. Birds were eating his thoughts and memories."

What a nice way to explain someone's brains being pecked out by birds, huh?

Watchmen

finally got it, first few chapters are amazing really pushing to read it. hoping to put pics up this week

sincerely,
Sean

Is it just me?

Is it just me or is it a joke that the batmen series has not explored the shear rivarlry/hatred between Batman vs Superman b4, i mean in the next movie, would that not be a great setup for the next batman, if u want to look read pages 165-199 in depth it shows their in depth love/hate relationship.

P.S. still waiting on watchmen, i hate feeling behind so when i get it im staying up all night trying to read it

Sincerly,

Sean Wenzel

One Hell of an Ending

Watchmen is a very intriguing graphic novel. We were told to read the first two chapters of the novel for Mondays class, but i was so caught up in the reading I read the whole thing this weekend. I have to say i liked "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller alot better than this one. I think that is just because i like the way Frank Miller lays things out. Watchmen is a little slower read, but the differences between the two are very interesting. I think watchmen makes up for the slow start with one hell of an ending though.

*Jake

Batman!!

We got batman last week finally... It was kick ass! We actually got a few of our friends to read it! We both loved it. When this started I thought that a graphic novel would be difficult to follow, but it wasn't! I am hooked! My husband read both Batman: The Return of the Dark Knight and Watchmen this weekend. I want to get Sin City now, too.

Batman

The bookstore here is worthless. They still do not have Batman. We got sick of waiting, so yesterday we just ordered it online and got overnight shipping... With $17 in shipping it still cost the same as what the bookstore charges! Grrr.... We're really behind now, but by next Monday, we'll be right on track.

Graphic Novel Newbie

Hello, i'm a graphic novel newbie and i just wanted to drop a line saying that if you've never read one i suggest you do. There fantastic, the visual projection they give allows more to the reader than a regular novel, just the first few pages of Batman the Dark Night Returns is fantastic. I'm throughly enjoying the book.

Frank Miller's Sin City

I just put this picture up to see if I could figure out how to do it, and because although I've never read the Graphic Novel, I love the movie!

Dr. Nevitt's Graphic Novel

Hello All!
Since some people in our class were curious about Dr. Nevitt's Graphic Novel, I went and talked to him about it. I am borrowing a copy of it, and when I get home, I'm gonna try to scan some of it so you can see a little of it.
It's called "The Autumn King Murders" (sounds sweet, huh?), and as you can imagine, it is about murders near a college campus, called Black Mounds State University. Hmmmm... Dr. Nevitt is using it for his Analysis of Evil I class, which I intend to take if I can.
You can check out a copy of it a the library here on campus if you're interested in reading the whole thing, which I recommend. Not only is it a Graphic Novel, you can learn a little about the psychology of a serial killer if you read it. Good stuff.
In the beginning you are warned "CAUTION YOU ARE ENTERING A DARK FANTASY ENVIRONMENT", if that peaks anyone's interest. Check it out.
Stacey

Graphic Novel Virgins

As I'm sure you may have guessed, the three of us are comic book virgins. We don't know much about them and we haven't read them. However, we find them very interesting and we want to know more about them. (We aren't very good with computers either, so any help with this blog will be greatly appreciated).
We have seen a lot of movies and we are really into Frank Miller (Sin City and The 300 were kick a**!), so we're looking forward to Batman. (Of course, that's assuming that our books get here soon).
Looking forward to becoming part of the wonderful and mysterious world of the Graphic Novel.