Sin City Seminar Reflection

I thought that the seminar our group did on Sin City was very good. I think that we reached the expectations for the different parts of the assignment. One thing that we needed to work on was getting all the information necessary because we forgot to make a slide and talk about the Elements of style. I think that we needed to have more information on the book and not so much about the author and movie. Most of our group did not seem excited by the topic when they were talking, we all sounded uninterested. I think that I did well on the presentation when it came to knowing my information and researching the topic and finding relevant things to talk about. I think that one of the things I did wrong during my part of the presentation was that I did not talk long enough compared to the other people in my group. When I was presenting I thought that the class seemed uninterested by what I was saying, which is something that I should work on for future presentations because it is important to make seminars interesting so that the class learns about your topic. For future presentations I need to work on getting the class interested and getting more information to talk about.

Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets - Comparison to Sin City

The graphic novel Sin City: Booze Broads and Bullets was one of the novels used to write the movie Sin City. Booze, Broads and Bullets only has one story of the eleven that was put into the movie, "The Customer is Always Right." Some of the stories that are represented in the movie are not exactly the same as the one in the books. Some of them are not the same because they did not relate well to the other stories, content or there too many of the main characters are in the story.

The colour style in the movie was the same style as in the novel. The majority of the movie and the majority of the book are in black and white, but there are some colours on a few of the characters. In the movie there were more colours than in our graphic novel. More of the blood in the movie was red than in the books. The stories that were in the movie were very similar to the ones that were in the novels. Some of the people who have reviewed the movie say that some of the scenes were too similar to the novels. Some of the scenes in the book had voice over to tell the readers what the characters were thinking without the characters actually talking. Those scenes in the movie did not transfer to the movie very well because some think that there were too many voice overs in the movie.

The stories are meant to be happening around the same time, but some of the characters were not in the scenes that they were in the books because they were somewhere else for the movie. Some of the scenes were altered for the movie because they were not important to the stories represented in the movie. Since only some of the stories were shown in the movie, those stories are meant to be the beginning of the story not the beginnings from the books. There were scenes that were added to the movie that were not in the books. The ending of the extended cut where Becky gets into the elevator at the hospital and the man from the first scene is in there with her. Another scene that was altered was the gunfight in the alley, in the book Becky was killed in the ally and did not make it to the hospital. There were five scenes that were in the novels that were not transferred to the movie.

Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets - Characters

There were not many characters in the geaphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets did not have many characters. The main characters in the books were Marv, Blue eyes, the man, the customer, Douglas Klump, Burt Shlumbb Dwight and the women with the red dress. Some of the characters where not in the book as much as others. The characters were not really develop at all in the book because they were only in it for a short time. Most of the other characters were introduced in other books, so they were not introduced properly in the novel. The characters that were in the movie that were from our book were Marv, the man, the customer and Dwight. The most prominent character in the book was Marv.The characters that were in all of the books and in all the movies were Nancy, Hartigan, Marv, The Man, The Customer, Shellie, Dwight and Gail.

Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets - Writing Style

The writing style of the graphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets is not very good. This book is very picture based and there are not a lot of words. There was a chapter in the book, Silent Night, that was all pictures and there was no words at all in this chapter. The actual text in the book would take up about 17-20 pages if it was all on consecutive pages. The text in this book does not tell the story in the different chapters. The story is told through the pictures and the text is used to tell the audience what the characters are thinking. There is barely any dialogue and there is no narration.

I think that the writing style of this book would have been better if there was more dialogue. The stories would have been easier to understand and follow with the other books if there was more dialogue to tell the reader what happened before, or in the other books. The pictures in this book are very detailed and graphic so that they fill the need for words. i think that the book would have been better if there was more text and less picture based story-telling. Overall I think that the writing style in the graphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets was not very creative.

Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets - Visual Style

The graphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets, like other graphic novels is very image based.The stories in the novel would not have the same effect without the pictures. The pictures are the main focus in the book. The pictures in this graphic novel are very “graphic”, they are full of death, blood, and sex. By the end of the story most of the characters die, in every chapter at least one character dies or is murdered.

The pictures in this graphic novel are different than other novels because they are more based around little colour and shadows. The pictures are mainly black and white, except for the few characters or materials that are in colour to make it stand out. There is one character that has blue eyes, so in every panel that she is in everything is black or white except for her bright blue eyes because it makes them stand out. Most of the time throughout the book the blood is white because there is so much of it in the books so it would make the book very red. There are not many colours used in the book, the only colours used are blue, red, pink and a little bit of yellow.

The main characters in the novel are all very different looking, some are big some are small, fat or skinny, strong or weak. The women in the book stand out from the men because most of the women in the novel are in colour or have a lot of colour on them. The pictures of the characters really let the reader figure out what the character is like because the men in the novel look like their personality. The women on the other hand look harmless at the beginning, they look fragile or distressed, but then they turn out to be worse then the men. The women are killing machines in this novel, one of them is an assassin and another one lures men to her parents’ house so that her father can kill them. The visual style of Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets is very good and goes very well with the stories and the text.

Sin City: Booze Broads and Bullets - Plot

The graphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets does not have the traditional plot structure as other books or other graphic novels. There are many different plots to follow in this graphic novel. Some of the characters are in more than one part of the book but for the most part most characters have their own part of the book. It seemed that the novel had so many different stories going on at once because they were all to be happening at the same time. Some of the stories do not follow this rule because some of the stories start in one chapter and finish in another chapter. There are eleven chapters in this book and they are mostly all different stories with different characters.

The plot is untradtional in this graphic novel compared to others. Most graphic novel and test novels are mainly focussed on one central plot and may have side plots that involved other characters. The plot that has the largest section of the book is the story where one of the characters is trying to figure out why he has lost parts of his memory and cannot remember what happened that night. Many of the stories in this graphic novel are taken to the movie Sin City. I think that the style of having different plots in the same novel that are not related is not an effective method.

I think that every novel should have one prominent story line and then side stories that are happening to different characters instead of staring different stories and not finishing them or finishing stories that where not started in the novel. Since Booze, Broads and Bullets is the sixth book in the Sin City series some stories that started in previous novels so you did not know the back-story to it, or stories started in this book and would finish in the next one. Overall I think that the plot of this book was not traditional and that it would have been better if it only had one main storyline.

House Back on Top

On this weeks episode of House, House tried to make the doctors that quit under Foreman to come back. This episode was good because the story about the Dibala case finally had consequences. In the previous episode Chase finally told Cameron that he intentionally killed Dibala. Cameron thought that this was totally out of character for Chase and decided that they needed change. At the beginning of the episode Cameron and Chase came into the Diagnostic workroom to tell House, Foreman, and Cuddy that they are quiting the team and are leaving the hospital. This was also the episode that House got his medical license back and officially was made head of the diagnostic department.

House decides that he needs some change as too. He calls/faxes Taub and Thirteen many times and every time they ignore him. He also tried to convince Chase and Cameron to stay and not quit the team because he wanted to choose from the best who should stay on the team. He knew that there were four spots on his team and he wanted to be able to choose from five doctors so that he felt in control of the situation. After enough pestering Taub and Thirteen realized that where their lives were are not as good as when they were working for House. They both went in to tell House that they will work for him again and that they will rejoin the team. Chase also told House that he is going to stay on the team because he thinks that he can do the most good and get redemption if he stays at the hospital. Cameron came into House's office shortly after Thirteen to tell him that even though Chase is not, she is still quiting. Cameron decided that she was going to quit because she did not want to be corrupted like Chase, she thought that Chase had spent to much time with House and now he has turned into him. She told House that Chase has become the type of person who will do whatever they think is right even if they know it is the wrong thing to do, just like House. House did not get the chance to pick members of his team because Cameron decided to quit, so not his team is Chase, Foreman, Taub, and Thirteen.

I thought that this episode was good because House was finally back in charge. When Foreman was running the department House was still telling him what to do. I thought that it was good that Chase finally had to suffer consequences for killing President Dibala. It was good that Taub and Thirteen returned to the hospital because they were doctors who still knew right from wrong because House has not corrupted them yet. I think that nearend Cameron was right when she said the House was going to corrupt Thirteen and Taub just like he did to Foreman and Chase. I though that this episode of House would get a rating of 3 out of 5.

Graphic Novel Gallery Walk

Astro Boy

1. The graphic novel is about a man using all of the technology at his disposal to build a robot that will be the most advanced piece of robotics to re-create a child with a immortal body.


2. The characters that are visible on this page are Astro Boy, the robots creator, and the team of scientist that were related.


3. The language on the page is more formal than other graphic novels.


4. The page has five boxes, but they are not the shape shape


5. The page reads from the top left to the bottom right


6. The page is not that appealing to the eye because it is black and white. It is easy to follow and it is not offensive at all.


7. The words on the page add to the visual impact of the of the page because it allows the reader to flow the story easier because he is explaining what he is going to do and why he wants to do it.


8. I would not be interested in reading this book because the it does not seem like the story will be very in depth or that it will go much further than where it is on this page

The Watchmen

1. This graphic novel seems to be about a man who is fed up with his city and will refuse to save it.


2. There are only three characters visible on this page. They are a store owner hosing down the street, a man walking through the blood on the street and a man looking to jump off of a building.


3. The text used on the page seems informal because the person is not talking to anyone and it seems darker than other novels because the person said that he would not help his city when the day came when they learned the errors of their ways.


4. The page has 7 boxes and except for the last box, which takes up three spots, all the boxes are the same size. There are two rows of three boxes and one box on the bottom.


5. The page reads like most books from North America. It reads from the top left to the bottom right.


6. The pictures on the page are not visually appealing. The pictures on the page is not difficult to follow, but some might say that it is offensive because it starts with blood running down the street and ends with a man preparing to jump off of a building.


7. The words on the page add to the effectiveness of the story because the pictures seem to be depressing and the text adds to that felling of sadness, anger and death.


8. The graphic novel looks like on that I would be interested in reading because it looks like the story will be interesting and it looks like a book that is for older teens than for children, unlike Astro Boy.