Wednesday, October 7, 2015

SuspenStories...? Or Horrifying logic stories?

Rather than reading suspension and crime, I feel more like reading the logical horror stories that I am usually fascinated by. It really reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe and his Tell-Tale Heart. In almost all of the SuspenStories, the stories are told from the main character's point of view. They introduce the character's background, giving them a motive to commit crimes, and then takes us through the process and the aftermath. I personally don't think that it's the stories that are horrifying, but rather the logic behind the stories that I find them creepy.

In the Tell-Tale Heart, the narrative is the person who is obsessed with, and hates the old man's eyes. While I follow the narrative down his path of thought, I begin to empathize with the narrative, especially about how even though some people are kind, there is just that one thing that bothers me. While the narrator repeatedly claims that he is sane, I also convince myself that I, a completely sane person, agrees with him so he should be calm and collected. And then I begin to agree on why he killed the old man after killing him. Throughout the entire story, I am on the narrator's side. I believed that he is perfectly normal. But it wasn't until the end that I realized that it was not true. And then I began to question my sanity. It is the ending that really makes you think back to the beginning and realize how all of this all made sense, and how I missed all of the little cues laying here and there. So am I sane?

This comic book is a good example of the importance of narrative in comic books. Because the main character takes the audience from the stories, it gives the characters a more all-round/human perspective of the crimes. Even though they almost all face karma in the end, the stories are really interesting.

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