Comic Book Space

The article Comic Book Space used New Yorl City, Marvel Universe and Spider Man to emphasize tha the space an author decides to use and write about truely affects the comic in every way. I learned that New York City is the birthplace of the American comic industry. The  writers, artists and publishers were all first located  in New York. It is said that New York City gives fictional stories and series a sense of reality because of its architecture and ability to adapt to the demands of the narrative. Marvel Comics and Universe used New York as a foreground . Movies like X-Men, Spider Man, Captain America, Fantastic Four and other popular movies took place in New York and were also made into comics. These superheroes and their characteristics are defined by the place they live in. To be honest, this article wasn't very interesting but there were two quotes that were able to catch my attention. The first one was, "Through Spider-Man I want to interrogate the realtionships between New York City and the Marvel Universe and how over 70 years of their coexistence on the printed page, each has come to depend on the other" (164). The reason why this caught my attention was because I feel like the setting of a story or comic does create a relationship and determines all that will happen and take place throughout the plot. I do feel that they are dependent on each other. Another quote that slightly interested me was "Marvel superheroes are very much these "extraordinary" figures "in an ardinary world" as opposed to DC superheroes including Batman --- who function more as archetypes in "heightened and exaggerated" cities, kept removed from our own" (166). To me, this quote shows that since the plots and comics are stationed in different places, the characters and superheroes are bound to be different because the environment they are living in. These two quotes helped me to see tha space has a pretty strong impact on everything.