ENGB38H3 Lecture 4: Week 4 Lecture Notes
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Week 4 lecture notes: author name, name of comic, anthology, editor, publisher, mla format works cited. The superhero genre: douglas wolk on the superhero. American comics, you are going to encounter superheroes. : origin stories: (cid:498)nobody travels to the extremes of human character,(cid:499) he observes, (cid:498)without great suffering. John carter (1912: philip gordon wylie on the creation of hugo danner (1930, (cid:498)a temperamental consciousness of material force brought (ugo. The frustration of my own muscles by things, and the alarming superiority of machinery started the notion of a man who would be invincible. Then i began to speculate about his future and it seemed to me that a human being thus equipped would be foredoomed to vulgar fame or to a life of fruitless destruction. He would share the isolation of geniuses and with them would learn the inflexibility of man"s slow evolution. Wolverine). balance between power and responsibility: powers: a combination of otherworldly abilities with a weakness.
