For the superheroes week, I decided to read the Wonder Woman:
Spirit of Truth. Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth is one of the many six parts of
the graphic novel that are written by Paul Dini and Drawn by Alex Ross.
For this graphic Novel, it is a graphic novel that are
mainly focus on the life of the Wonder Woman as she tries to be a great
ambassador of peace while maintaining her status as the super heroes. Here in
the stories, she began to realize that her job as an ambassador of peace is not
as easy as she thought it would be. Because of her physiques and her ability,
she was mostly feared by many sides, from politically powered person to a
civilian. As she keep struggling to find acceptance, she finally decides to
come to his friend, Clark Kent, AKA the Superman for an advice. Through their
conversation she finds the importance to act as a human and not as a god who
comes to judge and bring peace. So, following Clark Kent’s Idea, she begins her
journey, blending in as a human, living their life, seeing from their
perspective on what do they think of a heroes is and tries to help without revealing
her secret. And after spending a lot of time, she finally able to blend Into
society and able to save a lot of civilian, from that moment on, she feels that
she can relate on humans more and able to do her duty right, to save the humans
around the world.
This is a very interesting graphic novel to read. To be
honest, when I hear the term graphic novel, this is more what I imagined more
compared to the comic style. in this graphic novel, the drawing are more of a
whole painting and each panel really represent on what Is happening in one
moment. Instead of sequence by sequence that we always finds in comics. Not to
mention, the illustration is beautiful as always, coming from Alex Ross. I always
thought that he only does cover illustration, given on how intricate the
rendering of each illustration is. However,
this graphic novel is really a masterpiece. His intricate drawing are being
drawn on each illustration is really beautiful to look at. I wasn’t really expecting
the rendering to be this detail and the rendering is really stay true to the
atmospheric environment light which makes it more believable.
However, one thing that I really hope from this graphic
novel is to have more interaction between the sentences and the graphic,
something that we see from the contract with god by Will Eisner. They way will Eisner
incorporated the drawing with the graphic is really great that it makes it one
whole piece. However, in Alex Ross graphic novel, it is more of a separate piece,
stitches together. That I’m saying it is bad, it is a really good graphic novel
with a good illustration. However, I with both words and illustrations are more
cohesive and I think this is going to be one of the most beautiful graphics novels
so far.
Story wise, this is a very interesting piece. It is somewhat
different than any other superheroes comics I have seen. With all of the
actions portrayed in this graphic novel, the story revolves more about the
inner struggle of the wonder woman, adapting into the society more than her act
of heroism. In the beginning she always sees the society as the damsel in
distress and act as the judgement, although the intention was good, she is not
really accepted by the society as she was considered to be alien and the wrath
or something, which is interesting. This is like another side of superheroes
story. We always led to believe that when the superheroes comes and saves the
day, the people will be very happy, however, in this story, it is the other way
around, the people that she save, act as if she was the monster, although I can
understand the reasoning behind it. I might be scared as well if all of the
sudden some people can do what the superheroes can do. I might be freaked out
as well. That is why I find this graphic novel to be very intriguing as it depicts
a more realistic behavior of the society towards superheroes.
Overall, I find this graphic novel to be an interesting
graphic novel to read. The mesmerizing rendering of the superheroes is really
what hooked me in the first place. Alex Ross is a great artist and I can wait
to see what other project he has been working on and I might use it as my extra
reading for this semester
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