Board Thread:Books/@comment-867021-20121212150631/@comment-1895174-20121212210908

Cheating a bit here, but had to read Virginia Woolfe's To the Lighthouse for an English Literature class. Difficult to get into because of Woolfe's odd stream-of-consciousness/fragmented style, but definitely worth it. And it goes along well with T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land".

It also makes me wonder how WWI would have been portrayed in comics had the media existed at the time. And, if they did exist as a media in the 1910's, how the war would have changed them. We all know how WWII was portrayed in various comic books, but WWI was a very different conflict. No clear-cut good guys and bad guys. Most of the devastation coming from off the battlefield. This war as the "War to end all wars". The death of the optimism and progressivism of the 19th Century. In fact, the First World War has had a greater impact on the world's culture than the Second. How would comic books have portrayed this apocalyptic conflict? How would they reflect the huge shift in the world's outlook that followed it?