Reading the first Superman in Action Comics there was one thing that really stood out to me. The dialogue and narration felt very similar to that of which typical radio broadcasts sounded like. It was very apparent in the first page of the comic. The numerous exclamation points made me read the text in the voice of a radio narrator and in the way the narrator would in the old Superman cartoons. The different colored boxes made me read them in different tones as well. I'm not sure if this was what was planned but either way it effected the way I read it. The fact that reading this comic felt so much like reading a comic from today was astounding to me. I really liked reading the Superman comic and the other few early comic books I read.
When I read the Swamp Thing comic in class I got a different taste of the genres that early comics covered. The idea behind the comic being about you and reading in the 2nd person was something I didn't think would've been used so early in comics. It was definitely a surprise and it made the reading much more enjoyable when I was able to sort of take in the emotions of each character separately, yet as myself.
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