week 5

Reading The spirit #2 issue, I immediately realized the era in which it was wrote. The design for the assistant was extremely racist. The small uneducated blackman was depicted almost as a monkey like creature. The story begins with a masked man know as The Spirit, crippled walking down the sidewalk when a man throws his entire body into hims and knocks the spirit down. Realizing the severity of the injures the man phones one of the mobsters up to let them know its the time to attack since he's so weak. The spirits sidekick runs off to the detective to tell him whats become of Spirit. They both set off to wait for the mobsters at one of the known locations. The spirit meanwhile was picked up off the street and thrown into the back of the car of the mobsters. where they twist his arm in pain. They bring him back to one of the other locations where the mobsters keep their loot. Once the Spirit is in the building he throws a punch to one of the mobsters. He had fooled them into thinking he was injured so they could lead him to their hiding place. He knocks out the mobsters and ties them up and drives them to the detective to be thrown in jail. Besides the racial depiction of the characters, the story is very fluid and very easy to read. The story takes an unexpected turn to save the day.