Beowulf and McCloud

When reading there were times when i found myself completly giving up on the text and relieing on the pictures to figure out what was going on. The way the text was printed did not help either. Reading old English with hard to read text never ends well for me. As mentioned in my previous post, I would tend to get lost in the story, because the way the dialouge was set up there were time when i had no idea who was talking, or what they were talking about. Luckily i had already read the story making it possible to follow along with the pictures.

Reading McCloud was much easier then Beowulf. Except for McCloud i found myself focusing on the text rather then the plain pictures. This is probably due to the fact the the black and white pages just did not catch my eye like the amazing pictures in the graphic novels. When reading McCloud i noticed the structure was much more clear cut then that of Beowulf, and that was greatly appreciated, because I went into the book trying to learn how to read and better understand comics.