Filth

I have read through the 7th Article and I am getting the hang of how to read the comic book style, but its still a challenge every once and awhile to know which bubble to read next. Sometimes I find myself skipping the bubbles or like going in the wrong order so I have to re-read a page. I think Filth is interesting, and although this is mentioned in class, why is Slade so important, especially if he isn't even doing good? I feel like he has so many mixed personalities. Also the entire book he doesn’t even want to be working with Filth. The second he actually remembers Slade and who he was he was like "I quit". I thought for sure that once he figured out who he was and maybe why they needed him he would be like oh yea I need to save the world and clean up their crap.

Another thing about Filth I find interesting and not unsure of is why is it ok for us to see the women in the book naked and not "blurred" out but all of the men are "blurred" or censored. I started to wonder if this was on purpose and had some kind of hidden meaning to it...like that we are just so used to seeing naked women and not naked men that its awkward, or the author just didn't want to be picturing naked men. But then I think to myself, most of the women are seen with one type of body and for some reason its really muscular or "masculine" and I am wondering once again if this is the way that the author likes women or if its just part of the story. I was not quite sure, but I was questioning the point to how the women and men look and why the men are censored and the women are not.

Also, I am not quite sure I understand the monkey? Is it just because we “came from monkey” that is why he can talk and be “human” I just don’t get it. I am not sure that this is necessarily a book that I would love to read, but I am trying to understand it. I am also trying to read the book quicker than in 2 weeks because I think that it would be something that would make more sense if you read it all together at once.

I really thought Article 6 and 7 were funny in a way because Gregory John Feely was so worried about his cat and like even when it was obvious that the police was not joking around and wanted him to be serious he was like “please my cat”. I had to laugh to myself because I think so often that so many of us would worry about our animals before we might worry about things going on in our own lives. We love our pets and hate to see them in pain, yet when we are in trouble, or in pain, we car for them first. Maybe because we are supposed to be taking care of them and loving them, and when we mistreat them we mistreat ourselves in a way? If that makes sense at all, but we love our pets so much we would do anything for them. I know people who paid ridiculous amounts of money for their dog to live when it was mean to die. They gave them multiple shots a day at a certain time of that day and the dog was on pills and had surgeries…it goes to show how much we care about our pets.

I am not going to lie, this book would be better without all the sex, but then someone might argue that this book wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t in here. That’s true, I just feel like along with the Ticket that Exploded it can mess with our emotions, and for me it makes it harder to enjoy the book. I don’t really enjoy reading the sex parts and it is not something I would chose to read if I had the choice. I guess this is what happens when you don’t actually look that the books you are going to be reading before hand. Although I am not enjoying the sex part of the class…I still think there are things to be learned and I still think that the class overall is interesting that the topics and discussions that are brought up are interesting, even if I don’t agree with everything.