Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Halo Graphic Novel - Genre

The genre of the story is Science Fiction. This is a genre that I am familiar with in a sense that I read these types of novels and stories. As a way the stories in Halo Graphic Novel are 'breaking the mold' or not, it all depends on each story and how it is portered. In the story Infinite Succor, it stays on track with the 'mold' of the genre. The facts that it takes place on a ship, and that it is attacked by an enemy stays true to the story and genre. In the story Armor Testing, it kind of didn't stay in the genre. It was all about the testing of armor but the testers used paint ball guns. In the story Breaking Quarantine, it stays true to the science fiction genre plus some more. The facts that it takes place on a ring world is great and the conflict of escaping the escaping the flood is even better. The Science Fiction genre stays in the 'mold' with an added bonus of a 'nice figured women.' In the story Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa, it starts off as an ordinary day in Old Mombasa where a reporter visits a guy with paper pictures, the kind that we use today, and he buys one off of him. They talk about how paper pictures don't exist anymore and hologram pictures are the only thing in existence. Secondly the 'falling stars' in New Mombasa were not 'falling stars' but in fact falling marines from space during the home front battle to defend Earth from the Covenant. The whole space battle and ground invasions portray the genre of the ALIEN ATTACK and EVACUATION OF ALL CIVILIANS perfectly with pushing and shoving and a lot of screaming. It does a lot of repetition with other stories in this type of action genre. It is a perfect portraying of the genre in most of the stories in Halo Graphic Novel.

1 comment:

Mr. Malley said...

Eric, nice exploration of this novel versus your other reading experience.