This week, I began to read the story, "Night" by Elie Wiesel. This book explores the horrifying subject of the holocaust and how it is seen through the eyes of an innocent young boy named Eliezer. This story has given me new light on a subject that I always felt uncomfortable talking about. Throughout multiple class periods, we have learned many more facts about the holocaust in order to understand the book better. Some thing that we researched included the map of conquer for the nazis throughout the war, the role of christians and catholics during the holocaust, ordinary jewish life before the war, and how many jews were involved in the tragic event. In the first 27 pages, we explore characters such as Moishe the Beadle and Eliezer's family. Due to the excellent writing of Elie Wiesel, I was able to grow an emotional connection with the characters which makes me afraid of what will happen to them later on in the story. In conclusion, I believe that this book, along with discoveries made in class, have shined a new light on a horrifying event which will be remembered throughout history.
On Friday, DC Entertainment released several Joker variant covers for their June comics. Among them was this homage to “The Killing Joke,” drawn by Rafael Albuquerque, for "Batgirl" #41. There was immediately fierce backlash. Since October, when Batgirl got both a new costume and a new creative team, the comic has been aimed at female teens and young women. Having Batgirl in tears at the hands of a man who, perhaps, crippled and tortured her was considered an extremely controversial situation by many. DC Comics and the creative team behind Batgirl agreed and pulled the cover. One of Batgirl's writers took to Twitter to explain the decision. "The cover was not seen or approved by anyone on Team Batgirl and was completely at odds with what we are doing with the comic" was one of his many tweets on the subject. Neither DC or anyone on Batgirl’s creative team have yet said if the creative director will create another Joker variant for the issue or if "batgirl" #41 will simply be variant-less this June. |
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May 2015
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