Task 1: Research into story writing techniques & historical/contemporary comics, graphic novels & illustrations.

300

The comic book 300 is a historically inspired comic written by Frank Miller and painted by Lynn Varley. The Comic was published by Dark Horse Comics between May - September 1998.

The comic is a retelling of the battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it.
You are in the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta who is the Warrior King of the Greek city of Sparta.

This Comic book was inspired by the 1962 film The 300 Spartans, a movie the writer watched as a kid. Also quick fact the story in this comic book was adapted into the 2007 film 300.

Basic synopsis of this comic book is that in 480 BC, King Leonidas gathers 300 Warriors to fight the Persian army which was in the millions. The story is so interesting because of the bravery of the 300 warriors they all knew it was a suicide mission but they still continued to fight to stop King Xerxes invasion of Greece. What was most intriguing about the story was even though they lost it was a very close fight with the Spartans almost winning.


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American Vampire

American Vampire introduces a new version of vampire more muscular and vicious something new and an incredible killing machine. The story is about a Vampire born and raised in the American West. 

This comic book was created by the writer going by the name of Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque and has changed the image of the vampire permanently. The writers even won an Eisner award from this comic book.

American Vampire was published by Vertigo in March 2010 and was an ongoing series.

The comic changes to image of vampires to a population of people like a race with different species with the evolution of the vampire species has split to create different breeds.

The focus of the story behind American vampire is that a new line of vampires has appeared in the American West and the species of this new group of vampires are notorious outlaws. The series first follows the character Skinner Sweet who is a vampire but wasn't born one he was infected and wakes from death to find that he has become stronger, faster and burns in the sunlight.


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Daredevil

Daredevil is a American fictional comic book created by Jack Binder, its main focus is on a superhero who goes by the name Daredevil but is also known as the man without fear.

The Daredevil comic has in recent years been changed by Marvel comic books but the original Daredevil comics are unrelated. The Marvel comics still use the same character and they just have incorporated him into the marvel universe.

The original Daredevil comics firs appeared in stores between 1930-1940 with the publisher being Lev Gleason Publications but went with more publishers as the comic book grew in popularity.

Onto the character, Daredevil alter ego is Matthew Murdock and he was blinded by Radioactive waste that fell from an oncoming vehicle when is was a child. Whilst he could no longer see his other senses grew much stronger beyond normal human ability thanks to to exposure to so much radioactivity. These ability's only grew stronger and stronger has he grew up.

Mathew sadly looses is father after hes killed by a gang for refusing to deliberately lose one of his boxing fights. Seeking revenge Matthew puts on a dark red costume and searches for his fathers killers as the superhero Daredevil.

With the advanced senses that Mathew has gained over the years he has become a real threat towards crime even without his eyes he could easily take out his enemies with his Super senses such as Radar detection which give him pin point accuracy and his tracking ability's which are better than a dogs but even without his ability's he can easily get himself out of sticky situation with his excellent athletic body and master acrobatic hand to hand combat and agility.

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Deadpool

Deadpool's real name is Wade Wilson and not much is known about his childhood, a the point of writing this all we know is that Wade Joined Project X.

The Deadpool comic first appeared in February 1991, the publisher was Marvel Comics and it was created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld.

The Deadpool character is a disfigured and mentally unstable soldier who was originally a villain in The New Mutants issue of X-Force. 

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