Topic #5 Comic Poetry form

Discuss one work from the examples in the Rothman essay, or from the links above (please post the image you're discussing on your blog)--describe what you think it's about, why you like it, and what you think is the most intriguing or best aspect of the work. 

The first panel in about a guy that is clearly involved with a women. He is self-absorbed and loves himself. We see him moving closer to the mirror and embracing his reflection. At some point when the women enters the panel she sees this and isn’t happy about his actions that I assume have been reflective within the relationship. She throws rocks at the mirror and his reflection which is a symbol for criticism. This also shown in the Holy Bible when someone was rejected or outed for something they do wrong. When she throws rocks at the mirror it also breaks the man into tiny pieces. This represents the fact that this was an embodiment of the man’s being; he only cared about himself. This doesn’t mean the women didn’t love him. She is actually shown picking up his pieces, and then follows two other women which are doing the same thing. Then the crazy part about the next part is that all of the women place the specific pieces they collected of this man in a specific way that is pleasing enough for them to decorate their ‘house’ with. This is almost like romanticizing about the fragments of the man that you always will remember and love, regardless of why you broke his presence in your life to pieces. DEEP stuff is this seemingly simple comic poetry. I like the limited color pallet and the way the figures are aligned in a series of images that show time. Weeks, months, year’s maybe. The best aspect of the work is the fact that the artist showed all these women in the same place that clearly don’t know each other or have any interest in communicating or conflicting, but they have one things in common, all those man fragments.