Friday, August 26, 2011

Homo Ludens - Notes About BOCAH Comic Book





According to the law of Indonesia, a man presumed to be an adult when he / she reaches the age of eighteen. When it comes to that age, I came to the conclusion that the most interesting part of life is when someone in his / her childhood, or more clearly, when someone enters their essence of humanity as a Homo Ludens that is, creatures who love to play. Sometimes, before one becomes an adult, or when someone is still in its infancy, it might have been lucky to play with a fake gun, and then be taken into account as a cowboy who wears a pistol on his waist, walking along the dusty road, go to save a beautiful princess who was kidnapped by some bad people.


comic book, written by the Bay, Seta, Ockto, and given the title: bocah (MnC!, 2010), shows the everyday life of four bad decisions children: Barry (11 years), Badi (11), Ijul (11), and Arda (11), who came to their essence of humanity has become the group Homo Ludens . This strip is divided into twelve chapters, each chapter contains a story that does not have any relationship with others. Readers also be noted that each panel burlesqued occasional daily life with an emphasis on Barry and his friend, naughty behavior, shows us a world filled Childs imagination. Moreover, it is not just your imagination, but their play and adventure, that is, become elements of the story. Readers can find these elements by looking at some "funny" (Some readers may say, irrational) story. However, what stories we could find in the bocah ? Some say, once dreamed of turn-out fire with a large glass. In other stories, Barry (with his ridiculous dream experiment) is trying to get out of its orbit the moon in order to prevent the land from the tsunami disaster. With this "funny" stories, of course, you need not ask any logical sense, because you really do not need to do.


may be a simple story line bocah is actually the most endearing part of the plot stripa.Cijeli follow four children the relationship with one another, showing different shades of life. Although Barry seems to give more developed part of his nature than the other boys do. Therefore, it seems that the only purpose is to serve other characters to create conflict, exposition and comic relief. I this case, I must say that the other characters are more like an extra player, even at the beginning of this comic book, four of them have mentioned that a prominent figure. Of course, in this comic, as I said before, there is no room for logical sense. For the four evil-child, all they can do is play with your body and mind, more and more. Readers may find some pitches that are so irrational to us, but, again, this is the child of imagination, you can imagine whatever and whenever you want. At this point, irrational-thing will lead us to some parts of childhood memories.


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