In terms of race do comics offer stereotypes? Yes, comics do offer racial stereotypes.Creating a character that can not be used as a stereotype in some form or another is almost impossible. The early creators of comics drew characters as obvious racial stereotypes. African Americans and Indians were illustrated in a very racist and stereotypical way. These characters were later redesigned to look less stereotypical. The new authors were trying to depict the characters as being equal to all other characters, but they found it difficult to not offend anyone. So even when the authors were being mindful to not make them fulfill stereotypes they did anyway. It is hard to satisfy all readers, and to characterize someone to make them 100% original.
Ohhh my goodness... When I decided on trying to analyze the mythological origins and references in superhero comics, I had no idea the can of worms I was opening up... On the one hand, it was awesome to see just how many connections there were between superheroes and psychology/mythology/philosophy, but all the information also made it terribly difficult to distinguish what I should be using and how to tie it all together. When I was talking to one of my sorority sisters about it she said, "Oh yeah, well, research essays are kind of like putting together puzzles..." and I think that really sums up what writing this paper was like for me. Fortunately, I was really interested throughout the whole process and I very much enjoyed writing the paper. Being a psychology major, I was especially interested in reading about the Jungian archetypes that had a lot of parallels with major modern comic books superheroes. I was also able to incorporate Joseph Campbell's "hero cycle...
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