Comic Strip #3

The comic I made this time was an improvement and continuation of my previous comic that I made. It is based on the scene where Marcus and Ange go to the concert. Marcus has a secret identity, and has to reveal it to Ange when he tries to escape from the police. However, the DHS has its eyes on him all the time.

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Matt Stockamp's Comic Life Remix

I did my comic life remix about the scene when Marcus reads the Declaration of Independence in his class with Mrs. Andersen as the teacher. When she tells him that he is being too radical, I have placed an American Communist flag in the background because she speaks of the Government in a way that convinces her students to make it sound good. The class is being stupified into believing false narratives about the government because they fail to stand up for what their forefathers promised them. Instead of rising up in rebellion and "taking back" their nation, they stand passively. Everyone does this except for Marcus, and upon his rebellion he is forced to go to the principal's office where the DHS takes him away.

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2nd Comic For Little Brother

Lt. John Pike, DHS Defender of Freedom!

My comic was inspired by the similarities between the excessive use of force by the DHS in Little Brother and the similar situation at UC Berkley involving Lt. John Pike. Pike unnecessarily used pepper spray on a group of seated, non-violent student protesters, much like the DHS did on the "Don't Trust .." crowd in the book.

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I wasn't exactly sure what we were supposed to do with Comic Life, so I assumed we had to find pictures to represent something within Little Brother and came up with this. This comic is inspired by the scene where Ms. Galvez starts a discussion about Hippies/Yippies. The comic strip is an imagining of what this discussion might had led to in the near future.

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For this remix, I played off of the concept that our rights are not absolute, as we often believe we are. As Marcus experiences in the classroom, our rights are something that different people believe different things about. When our rights were originally written by the founding fathers, most of the technologies that we require so heavily on today did not exist. There was no way that they could plan for the issues that arise today because of our new technologies. In my comic, I portray the reaction that the authors of the constitution may have to the state of national problems and security in the bay area, post fictional terrorist attack on the bay bridge and the chaos that followed.