Little Talks

After reading Watchmen  by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in my pop lit class, I understood why this comic series, though I had never heard of it, was a total classic. It has so much substance to it. And the visual medium was entirely necessary to make the points that this graphic novel makes. Without the illustrations, the story could never have this kind of depth to it. The novel poses this most interesting question: what if superheroes really did exist in our world? But what if most of them were more like Batman: ordinary people who use their talents to go about in disguise and help the helpless? Yet, in some sense, they admit that this could never happen in our own world, and so there are subtle changes (which become more obvious as the story progresses) which prove that these events are happening in an alternate timeline. The addition of overly vibrant and somewhat unusual colours plays into the fictional atmosphere of the whole thing. At the same time, they use the paratext to c

[This is a piece I wrote at work, but as these events are no longer current and I doubt that this post will get through the publishing process anytime soon, I've decided to share it here.] No pun intended. On October 7, journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing after going to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. On October 9, President (can’t believe that’s his title) Trump responded to allegations that the Saudi Arabian government is responsible. Here is his statement to the Associated Press : “I think we have to find out what happened first. Here we go again with, you know, you’re guilty until proven innocent. I don’t like that. We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh and he was innocent all the way as far as I’m concerned.” And I think, in part, he’s right! It’s not that straightforward For starters, I think the Kavanaugh comment was intentionally inflammatory and totally out of line. Knowing the cultural temperature at the moment with the #MeToo movement, a