Max Ernst

First panel

There is a woman in the forefront doing this weird pose like a ritual and there is a person in the background who seems to be dead. there is also a weird chicken on a sphere.

Second panel

There is this person in a bird costume and a woman who looks to be ill on a bed it looks like she is seeing a spiritual healer or part of a cult. there is a recurring chicken in the watching.

Third panel

Now this is a women in a coffin that has been placed in a whole there are two chicken people looking at her and a women who is undressing its like something a cult would do to someone that had died or that they killed.

Forth panel

This scene is really weird there are two woman who look to be dyeing or are dead a chicken person is still in this panel but he is with another man who looks like a mystic  and they are in what seem to look like a church.

Fifth panel

This scene is totally different and actually shows someone who is truly dead with blood on the ground where she lays half way on her bed but this time the chicken person is walking into the door and looks shocked to see her dead there are also two small chicken looking at her dead body

Sixth panel

This scene is also different then the rest there is to woman dancing which a chicken person hiding and watching them without them noticing like he is stalking them

exploring the question of how wordless comics like The Arrival can tell complex stories without using words

The Arrival by Shaun Tan's was a wonderful wordless narrative though it is the first wordless narrative I have ever read/looked at I can see the complexity in which it is able to tell the story. The first thing I noticed while reading/looking at the images was the sense of emotion you get like starting out with the picture of him and his family and going through the emotions you already get the picture of what is to come then it opens up to a full bleed image of him and his wife with there hands holding on a suitcase looking at it in a sorrow you totally understand in these to pages someone if not all will be leaving. The book also uses a really great grid system which allows it to tell the story really well allowing for larger images to be placed with small squares to really and emphasis to important images in the story. It also uses cropping in these smaller squares help by just zooming in onto parts that really tell the story like when his daughter is holding his hand before he get on the train if it was just an image that was not cropped on there hand it wouldn't have looked as dramatic. Also the full spread images give the story this giant feeling. This narrative is like a great silent film it shows the parts that will hit you and and enough back information to let you fully understand the story.