My graphic novel is about the release of a monster named Doomsday and the justice leagues attempt to thwart his desire to kill. The main characters are doomsday who is almost impossible to kill, and even when it is killed it respawns shortly afterwards, and cannot be killed the same way again, and superman who has super strength endurance heat vision and several other superpowers. The other characters are part of the justice league but they are not main characters. The main theme of this novel is self-sacrifice, this can be seen by the fact that throughout the novel the justice league and especially superman put themselves in harms way to defeat doomsday. Superman even eventually dies in the process of killing doomsday. The main conflict of this novel was the attempt to stop doomsday, who wanted nothing more than to destroy everything. My favorite part of this book was when superman died because I feel that he is overpowered, and acts to perfect. To me he is a very annoying character, and I was pleased to finally see him lose. The people who read this book are people who, want to see superman be defeated, and anyone who enjoys and action filled comic ending in “tragedy”.

 

The story begins with superman helping a race of people underground and then going to a news report. Mean while the monster begins rampaging through a city, and the justice league tries to fight him but can’t defeat him. Then superman is called to help and by then the justice league is defeated. Superman then battles with the creature, and they eventually kill each other at the same time.

 

1) My graphic novel takes place during the present time , and i know this from the clothing and style of society. My graphic novel takes place over a short period of time, because there isn't even a transformation from night to day, and the time of year is spring/summer based on the foliage.

2)My main character superman represents present day ideals by showing: selflessness (sacrifices himself to kill doomsday), caring (saves the people of metropolis), strength (fights doomsday).

3)I don't feel that the story would be altered that much. If the story was written in a different time period the the art style would change, and plot would change (superman wouldn't die) but the story changing time periods wouldn't change much of the story.

4) This story is real fictional because metropolis is a knock off of new york city and all of earths laws hold true other than the super creatures. If the setting were change it would change what superman would do to battle doomsday, but the fighting would more than likely still occur in much the same fashion.

1. The protagonist in my novel is superman, and other characters in the justice league. 

2. The antagonist in my novel is doomsday.

3.1 Superman's powers revealed in this novel are super-strength, increased stamina and health, heat-vision, super hearing, and super vision./Superman's weakness's are emotion, and kryptonite

3.2 Doomsday's powers are super-strength, the ability to leap enormous distances, and bone protrusions that can be used as weapons/ Doomsday has no weakness. 

4. People are drawn into superman's character because he is the perfect "do-gooder", and they are drawn into doomsday's character because he is a representation of unadulterated power.

5. This story is aimed at teens, and young adults. This can be seen because it has little to no childish story elements, and it isn't as mature as many comic books aimed at older generations. The characters portray this by there actions and speech

6. This character is familiar only in the way that we all faces challenges everyday, sometimes against nearly impossible odds.

The drawing is very stylized, this is to seperate them from normal people even more and make them seem more "super". The colors are bright and dont seem to change much throughout the novel. The colors help to determine the mood of the novel and give me a sense of what is happening.

My graphic novel ranges anywhere from three panels per page to one. it varies quite regulary but it does generally follow the rule of thirds. The dialoge tends to have smaller pannels while the action seems to take up more space. This pattern is formed so that the action pannels can be more detailed. This draws my attention more into the action and less to the dialoge than most readings.

SIlver age: lasted from roughly the late 1950's to the early 1970's. This type of comic followed the golden age and helped to bring comics back from a decline. Within this time period the magic was replaced with science fiction, and it was the first time that heroes were self doubting (Flash)

Bronze age: lasted from early 1970's to the middle of the 1980's. This type of comic book followed the silver age and although it still contained bright colors, it began to include darker themes and real world problems. (The self destruct of superman.)

Golden age: lasted from the early 1930's to the late 1940's. This type of comic was when the comic entered a mainstream art form, and it was also when many main comic characters were formed. this includes superman and batman from the dc comics. (superman, batman)

Modern age: lasted from the middle of the 1980's until present day. This type of comic often times is more complex, especially the characters. This type of comics is often a much darker type of comic and is also known as the Dark Age of comic books. (Watchman)

Platinum age: Began after the Victorian age. This is when the comic book began to take the form that we know of today. (yellow kid)