I was somewhat struck both by Biscuit's previous blog and a trailer I watched today--yet another remake of an original that doesn't need to be remade. This time they've chosen to butcher more Freddy Krueger---the biggest horror? It's not Robert Englund, and from the trailer it appears as if they're making Freddy out to be innocent? Anyone familiar with the origins of Freddy Krueger knows the basic plot: Freddy killed children, and got freed upon a legal technicality. So the angry mob of parents went vigilante style on him, locked him in his boiler room where he used to take the kids, and lit it on fire. Thus, he comes back to haunt kids in their dreams.

Robert Englund

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In "Setting the Record Straight", Scott McCloud cleverly defines comics through an actual comic medium. He defines comics as "Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer". Taking this definition into account I started to think about how technological advances in not just our own society but other more technologically advanced societies (such as Japan) will possibly change how we perceive comics. He pointed out that photos from a photo booth can be considered comics because nowhere does the definition for comics state that the images have to be drawn. The idea of using photography for comics really stuck out in my mind as particularly interesting. The only thing close that I could find on the internet was this image, which isn't even a comic because it is only one picture and not a series of pictures in sequence, but has bubbles in it to make it seem comic-like. I find it hard to believe that nobody has toyed with this idea. It might be somewhat time consuming but nevertheless interesting.

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To begin with I want to say that I am in NO way telling people that fighting is necessarily the right answer.
I just want to point something out that popped into my head while we were discussing Jerry Springer, when someone pointed out that the show focuses more on the crowd than on the "actual participants". I have noticed that as a culture Americans we often want to simply be the onlookers and by standers than anything else. The main interest in this show really is the crowds reactions, as it is with several other similar talk shows. Everyone loves to watch, thats just how things are, and these shows are probably quite popular because of the interaction that crowd is allowed, making the watchers at home feel slightly more involved.
But no one really wants to be involved.
Just as an example, i have only found three people who have not liked the movie FIGHT CLUB. This movie glorifies a controlled violence, and makes fighting seem like an honest option for stress relief. This comes amidst popular allegations that children are subjected to too much violence thru television and films.

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