Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Blog #3: "Hawkeye" is learning sign language?


 
 I chose this article because I really never seen a comic that has the characters using sign language to communicate. Honestly, I just thought it was cool. I’ve never been a big comic book reader but I do like reading manga and it’s the first time I’ve seen sign language in one of them. This article is about how one of the member of Marvel’s Avengers comics the main character is using sign language to communicate because he has severe ear damage.  In the issue No. 19 “Hawkeye” is the character who must cope with his ear damage because of the aftereffects of a battle. Throughout this story you’ll see blank balloons when “Hawkeye” can’t hear because the creators wanted to give a taste to readers on what it would be like to be deaf. I think this is very important because you never know if one day you’ll get into an accident that might leave you deaf or unable to speak. If this does happen, you’ll have to find and learn another way to communicate with people. I also think that the artist David Aja did an amazing job drawing the signs in such a clear way, it must have been difficult. Overall, it was a pretty interesting article, check it out!
 

2 comments:

  1. Wow! This is really interesting, is the first time I heard they have done a manga with sign language. It is really true the point of view you share with us. I hope they come up with more manga using Sign language.

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  2. This is really interesting. I never heard about Hawkeye going deaf. But if you like this type of thing in manga, you should read Gangsta. the main character, Nicolas, is deaf and uses sign language to communicate with his friend Warick.

    Anyway that article is really interesting. I loved it and this post is just nerdtastic and that makes it great. Keep up the good work

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