Peter and the Wolf

I've really liked this animation since I first saw it a few weeks ago. The characters are adorable and engaging, the music is integrated flawlessly into the story, and I find the whole story to be charming, even including the darker aspects.
I want to draw my comic on the ending scene in Peter and the Wolf, starting with Peter riding in on top of the cart holding the wolf, looking wild and triumphant, back lit by that enormous full moon. I like how he drapes himself over the cart while his grandfather talks to the various potential buyers for the wolf, and his wild joy at the fear of his fellow children when the angry, trapped wolf is revealed to be in the cart. I like how much Peter and the Wolf resemble each other by the end, Peter with his dark hair sticking out in all directions, just like the dark hair of the wolf, their eyes the exact same shade of ice blue. The wolf trapped in the cage mirrors Peter being trapped in the house at the beginning of the movie, and when Peter frees the wolf, it's as if they are the same, and see themselves reflected in each other. Both Peter and the wolf have a sort of dangerous, fearsome air about them by the end of the animation, a sort of wildness held in check, that I find rather fascinating.
The scene will start with Peter perched atop the cart, with the full moon behind him and the raven on his shoulder. The cart comes to a rest next to the dancing bear's cart, and the grandfather starts to talk with the dancing bear man while children crowd curiously around the cart. Peter opens up a hatch, revealing the wolf trapped inside, and the children all jump, making Peter grin. The girl he likes is there, just as impressed as all the other children. The raven, no longer trapped by its broken wing, flies away, free, soaring upward while Peter watches with a delighted grin. The two hunters push their way to the front, and start taunting the captured wolf with the point of their rifle, just as they taunted Peter at the beginning of the movie. Peter doesn't like that, and tosses a net over them, and they fall back, caught. Peter moves to the back of the cart, and unlocks the door, opening it to reveal the wolf. Everyone falls back as the wolf leaps out, and walks side by side with Peter, like an equal, before running off into the full moon.

Spider-Woman

I really did decide to analize the Spider-Woman comic. Brian Michael Benis is the author, and Alex Maleev is the artist. This particular issue is "Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D.", Issue 4, Published in February of 2010 (and published in monthly issues by Marvel). It's in color, although I can't quite tell what medium it's in - some sort of marker, paint-ish medium, perhaps edited with a computer. There are three main types of panel layouts, the first being a page of horizantal rectangles, one on top of another, the next being a combination of horizontal and vertical rectangles, usually a row of vertical ones, followed by a horizontal one, followed by another row of vertical rectangles. The last type is used for high-intensity scenes, with one large picture, with a few smaller rectangles layered over it, popping out. All the panels have white borders, even when there is color around the borders. The speech bubbles are white circles, while the main character's thoughts are in yellow squares. The font used is the same, in all capitals, throughout the issue. However, when the alien in the issue speaks, it's speech bubble is green, with white words in a different font, suggesting cracked English. The visuals are very intense, while the words are few.
It seems to be set in the secret headquarters of Hydra, I think, although I'm not sure because I don't really know what's going on (I picked this issue up because the cover was beautiful), which is in a tall building in a city. Most of the issue takes place in a holding cell, in the dark. Madame Hydra, one of the evil characters, is bribing the main character, Jessica, with revenge, by showing her to the holding cell with a live skrull prisoner in it - and the skrulls had kept Jessica prisoner for a while. Jessica interogates the skrull, it shape-shifts and attacks her, and she is forced to kill it, after which she runs out of the Hydra building (all the guards shoot at her), and jumps of the edge. The issue ends with her in free-fall, screaming.
The issue is dark and depressing, slightly bitter, written in the first person, with a few remarks about the past, but no actual flashbacks. Dramatic angles are used, including low angles, and since most of the issue is set in the dark of the holding cell, light is used for dramatic effect. Jessica's face never is in the light, reflecting her inner turmoil.
Personally, I liked the cover picture more than the illustrations inside, but it was all still very pretty. Since I came in in the middle of the story, I didn't really know what was going on, and it made me curious - I read a few other comics about Spider-Woman, and looked up what had happened to her before this issue, so that I might understand things better. I think, overall, that I liked it, although it was so moody and intense that I may not be positive. :)

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Haha!! Success!! Please excuse the square around the second picture - the scanner doesn't like it if it's not in a square . . . :)

Hmm, I know I added a new scene and all, but I've been wondering . . . is it enough? Do I need more? Hmmm . . .