FUN HOME's Conclusion

I couldn't help, despite the amount of information and insight throughout, that I didn't get a lot of info out of Fun Home. There were so many times that I wanted her to explain more or to show another letter or to expand on a scene, but she never did. I see how it worked in the piece, to make it more of a reflection instead of a narrative, but as a person, not as a critical student of literature, it made me anxious and unfulfilled. But I suppose that's the sign of a good book, etc...that you want it to continue after it ends.

An interesting use of panels in Fun Home, was how they were used to incorporate more text to the page. Passages of letters and novels set background to the narration. I liked this implementation better than in Watchmen, were it became a strange jump from panels to text. They both accomplished the same goal, authentication, but Fun Home seemed more natural (although that's easy to do when comparing a memoir to a story about blue naked supermen).