Action Comics

     Reading the original action comics that laid the foundation for the super hero genre, I have mixed feelings about them. The style of comics have interesting color as part of the printing process, which gives it that nostalgic feel. The narrative for many of these comics went in interesting directions, lore being used by the writer's full advantage, clearly a lot of passion was put into the overall story. My favorite style would be Batman 600: Bruce Wayne: Fugitive, where facial expressions are more apparent than that of anything Superman related, where at best, they're too subtle to have a wide range of expression.
      Other than that style of Batman, however, the general realistic style isn't as interesting unless you've read enough comics to know the differences between artists, like inking techniques or coloring style. One technique I notice that's used a lot in action comics is used in Superman's "Captive of the Red Sun", page35 panel 3, I notice how perspective and framing doesn't work well with each other, as the rocket Superman is thinking about isn't in his line of sight. Regardless, it is fun noticing color errors, like Batman's boots not colored blue on page 22, panel 5. After a while, I'm more interested in the thought process of both writers and artists, because the dialogue keeps reminding me the target demographic are children. I somewhat hate how there's inner dialogue expositing to the audience the motives for the character's actions, particularly Superman. There's more telling than showing, but for sake of how many pages the staff had to work with, it made sense why, but still distracting at times.