I believe that the future of the super hero will be very different. Future super heroes will not be as flawless as the ones today. I believe that some super heroes will come from the "dark side" and turn to do great. I find it interesting that super heroes and villains never switch sides. People in our everyday lives go from being good to bad people or bad to good. This concept is simple to understand and i feel that it will add a lot more excitement and drama to super heroes across the board. If spiderman or superman turned evil and a team of super heroes had to stop them i think it would be very cool. Authors can play around with how they got to switch sides. It could be through blackmail or even a experiment gone wrong anything that could drive a super hero or villin to switch sides would probably be very extreme. I feel that if comic books spice up their characters and plots a little bit it could add a whole new branch of comics in the industry.
To begin with, I really do like the idea of reading a comic about comics. I think it's a great idea and it's very well executed. As I was reading the first two chapters, I was surprised at how many examples there were of art in recent (and ancient, in some cases) history that are variations of "sequential visual art" and thus the foundations of modern comics. I'd never even thought about it before and it was hard to believe how many different kinds there were. I also love all the discussion about how our human brains automatically interpret certain images in a specific way, how we see others constantly but we identify ourselves when we look at cartoons, and how inanimate objects automatically becomes extensions of our bodies. The pyramid of styles was very interesting too as a way to conceptualize and almost graph or "place" a specific art style in comics. In Comic Book Nation , I enjoyed reading about the evolution of early comics from "funnies...
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