Contract With God

These stories told by Will Eisner showed a more serious side of comics that prior were not yet seen. Most of the things we have seen in class so far had to do with more light and very cartoony stories and characters perhaps with the exception of Tales from the Crypt, but even those stories were pretty over the top and silly for the subject matter. With a Contract with God we see very real and mature themes shown in these stories, many of them dealing with the members of the jewish people. He shows in the first story a pretty compelling tale of a rabbi who turns his life from being a rabbi to a real-estate tycoon after God allegedly breaks the contract they had. He eventually forms a new one by making other rabbis at temple write out a new one, the second story has to do with a supor who everyone hates that has a thing for younger girls. This gets him into so much trouble he kills himself at the end and nobody cares much. The final tale was young people falling in love and deceiving each other for money and power. All these stories were very well told, interesting to read and visually gorgeous, Will Eisner had a talent for melding all of these whenever he told a story and these series were a delight to read.