Points Midterm (44 points)
reading points: 37 points
class attendance: 7 points
no absences
44 points total
Asterios Polyp (6 points)
I thought Asterios Polyp was pretty good. I think something that stood out to me was the way Mazzacchelli made each character really distinct through color, shape design, and typography. Like Asterios defining color is blue, his shape design is angular, and his speech bubbles are cornered; Hana’s defining color is pink, her shape design is rounded, and her speech bubbles are rounded. These choses fit their personalities as Asterios is a very tidy, organized, dualistic, self centered, know it all, while Hana is a shy, sensitive, spineless optimist. It made sense the author made these distinctions this way as it made it clear which times Asterios’ and Hana’s reality were separate, together, or even conjoined. He would accentuate these differences as well to show their disconnect from each other like when they fight after visiting Kalvin’s the composer’s house. It is like style overtakes them as they become more separate and their realities become more out of sync. Hana becomes purely def...
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