Rhodes Of Our Lives Commic Strip
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2:23 AM
Saturday, October 18, 2008
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Your comic is interesting. Your story is easy to follow because your pictures are very accurate. The way use your characters is interesting. The villain is the guy who cheats on his girlfriend. When he enters the club everyone starts talking showing that to him cheating on his girlfriend is the equilibrium. That's perfect. Your disruption requires more work, the emotion is not enough.
Your princess is rescued by a stranger who has no knowledge of what is happening. The princess is safe and a new equilibrium is created when she breaks up with the player. However, this new equilibrium is created at the expense of the helper/hero who was caught with the boyfriend or maybe she is also a villain, we don't know. You should have made that clear.
Your story is not original, you find similar narratives everywhere nowadays. You should have tried something fresh. Good attempt.
Howzit guys
I liked your comic as it the story line shows a very real and very harsh reality of our world today, even though the photos were a bit boring. This narrative demonstrates how easy it is to do something that you and someone else will regret for the rest of your lives. In this case your villain breaks a girl’s heart by cheating on her and wreck’s another girl’s (the princess according to Proppian characters) life by making her pregnant. According to Todorov this is the disruption in the narrative. Now that the villain knows he has made someone pregnant, it will be interesting to see if he remains a villain and avoids responsibility or if he turns into a hero by doing the responsible thing and taking care of the pregnant princess and reinstating a new equilibrium.
Cheers Gabi
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Well done! The meaning of the story and pictures are very clear. The storyline is not very original but that is what makes it brilliant. An old story theme is used to highlight the issue of seal clubbing as well as cheating and the consequences thereof. The story is used to highlight issues relevant to first years in a university context. The story draws from Todorov's model of narrative. The equilibrium is the happy couple, the disruption is the infidelity, the recognition thereof is the girlfriend finding out and the new equilibrium is the pregnancy and the man's intention to change and take responsibility. The Proppian characters are the villain who cheated, the princess who found out and was rescued by the break-up. However, there seems to be a double narrative coming into play as the girl who was impregnated is also a princess and is rescued when the man decides to take responsibility. Interesting use of genre and narrative theory.
A bit on the unoriginal stride, but a well put together piece of work. I do feel, however, that the story is incomplete.
The Russian folklorist Propp said that a story should have certain character functions: a hero, a villain, someone in need of rescue, a magical agent… Where are these? Your villain is clear, and so are his victims (the girls he preys off) but who is the hero, and how does this hero seek to restore the equilibrium that Tolorov describes?
The pictures are clear, leaving no doubt as to what is happening in the story. Another strong point of this comic strip is the fact that the dialogue is concise; helping more the story along effectively without becoming cluttered.
The comic highlights the disturbing behaviour of many students who seem to think that promiscuity is “fun” and who are unwilling to accept the consequences. But what happens next? What does the young man (perhaps a flawed or anti-hero?) decide to do about the consequences of a one night stand?
Fiction is fiction, and reality is reality. Very often, though, the strength of a fictional narrative lies in its incorporation of realistic elements into the plot. This comic achieves this incredibly well since it addresses pertinent issues affecting Rhodents on a daily basis. The specific topic of relationships, I believe, was well-chosen and subsequently well-handled.
Your use of different settings, complemented by the excellent quality of the photographs, lent the comic a certain genuineness and authenticity that could only be found on Days of Our Lives. Kudos.
Being the little feminist that I am, I especially enjoyed your choices of hero and villain. The man is the perpetrator while the women are the objects of his philandering. I do believe, though, that the female characters were victimised excessively when in reality both males and females can be at fault. All in all, a brilliant effort :)
Hey Guys
I am not taken away by your comic guys. I think that taking the ‘soapie’ route did not work for this piece. There was nothing fresh, exciting and captivating about the story, it never provided the element of surprise that I would expect a comic strip to have.
When I read the first three blocks, I could already tell where the story was headed as the title also gave it away. What I liked about it though is the characters that were in the comic strip. There was the guy who started off looking like a nice guy which made him a hero and then later the story shifted and he was a villain in the eyes of the girls.
Kind regards!
Mazet
Wow, "Rhodes Of Our Lives"... I like the title, it really does sum up the comic strip.
I see that in the first frame there are to lovebirds and a girl in the backround, that gave me an impression that there will be a triangle of come sort. This Tom character is such a typical kinda guy and I dislike the fact that there was no exciting element about him. He is a playa who ends up being a father at a young age. The plot is not bad, I like the fact that it is scandalous but yet typical. I really wish you guys payed attention to the girl who got cheated on since she is the victim of this villian named Tom. Who is the hero? Was the intention not to have a hero?
I think the original equilibruim was the two happy couple. The disruption is when he cheats. The new equilibrium is when he finds out two months later that the other lady is pregnant. Poor Tom...
I enjoyed the comic very much. Great layout and well done!
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