Political Comics

This is another comic I seen when I was about 18, which had me remember how my school was.  Teachers always had to walk on eggshells and the student had all the power because of the shifting dynamic of school culture.  Back then my dad told me that the parents sided with the teachers and worked with them to see what's best for the child.  Now parents expect for their child to pass or else the teacher is doing something wrong, alleviating all of the blame from the student.  There are a lot of factors why, but they are too complicated to go into in this blog...

Military Cartoons

This image by Dana Summers really hit a spot for me, being a veteran.  This shows the entire issue of the Iraq war in the first place.  With their culture being very behind ours in terms of progressiveness, it would take a long time for them to catch up to us, and yet we let them go when they were just growing out of the ancient ways, which ended up with them being open to attack by neighboring countries (Iran, and more specifically, ISIS). This teaches the outcome of going into a situation without following through the entire thing

Cover Art

This is the coverwork of Fire Emblem Awakening, which is the game before fates, and also pertains to the events that lead up to said game.  It has more of a political plot than Fates, about a band of people lead by you and Prince Chrom to overthrow a ruler that usurped the throne from the prince.  My favorite part about this picture is the lady in front, Lucina.  She is the daughter of Chrom but was sent from the future to prevent the original timeline (everyone, including her father dies, which is why she has the same sword as Chrom, because it's his).  This symbolizes how everyone is facing the future, but Lucina has to face the past.


One other reason I like it is a sly joke:

The arrow is pointing at a character in the story called Kellum, who is a very large Knight, but has a very low presence and is not noticed often throughout.  

Even in the cover he gets shafted. :( 

Poster Art

This artwork is from the game Fire Emblem: Fates.  This is probably one of my favorite game franchises  in terms of symbolism and artwork, especially this particular piece.  In this game you are a main character that is raised by the Nohr family (on the left side) only to find out that the nation you're at war with (Hoshido, on the right) is your true family.  The first thing most people would see is the sky:  the left being dusk and the right being dawn.  This doesn't exactly represent good and evil, but the ambiguous nature of it.  Nohr is not entirely evil, and Hoshido is not as pure as people think it is in the beginning.  Another thing that people might not notice is the parallels with each side.  If you look from the ends and go inward you will notice that they are symbolizing that each side has the same composition of people in terms of personality:  from the loyal knight to the role model older brother.  Each circle in the background represents a "fate" to be decided on the player, and a third one that has not been revealed yet (until recently).  I will leave it at this but I can talk about this picture all day if I wanted to.