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By the way, you might want to adjust your link so it goes to the beginning page, rather than the last one, to avoid spoilers.
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I read through it. It was pretty good. I never would have imagined the world of cereal characters to be as dark as that is.
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I was able to follow this, and it made me realize why I don't read comics. Not because they're too basic; because they have conventions I don't understand and that stop me from understanding the story. (Order of pictures on the page; unstated things about the characters.)
I'll eagerly be awaiting the next twist of Tony's fate...even thought there's no way I'll eat his cereal.
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Will B - Many of my friends have run into the same problem. They were really hesitant about reading comics because it can take some getting used to the format - plus there are a night infinite number of possible variations on the format.
Sequential art is a language, and just like learning any language it takes some practice and exposure to increase your fluency. Some artists are better than others, but when I got back into comics it took me a few books to get back into the flow of taking in the pictures, dialogue, and captions simultaneously and naturally.
It really does get easier after reading a few books.
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Yeah. There's also a book (I had to read it for my Anime and Manga class this semester) that is called Understanding Comics, which deals with how sequential art works as a language. It's pretty neat. I understand the trouble with reading comics though. I didn't have as much trouble with American comics (since I've been reading them forever), but it did take me a bit to get used to reading manga (which has a different order and sort of language and symbols attached to it).
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