[Week 2] Translation ~ "A Week of Kindness" (Max Ernst) (In class)

Panel 1:
A woman appears to be doing some sort of summoning or appeasement ritual after it looks like shes killed someone, or at least someone has fallen down the stairs. Unsure if they're dead or not. A statue of a rooster is nearby. She might be asking for some blessing, maybe a cure?

Panel 2:
A woman is lying on an alchemists table, with a large rooster-person standing nearby. Rooster nearby on the ground. The woman is lying on the table while the various alchemists tools seem to be working. The rooster might be trying to save this woman?

Panel 3:
It seems that despite the rooster's efforts, the woman has died anyways? A statue of a woman and another rooster-esque figure is nearby, and they appear to be pulling the woman's body out of a sarcophagus in a mausoleum.

Panel 4:
The roosters seem to be collecting something from another grave, perhaps clothes and other items of interest. Grave robbing, possibly? They're in a large catacomb that has other large burial chambers and coffins in it. They might also be harvesting organs and bones, but I'm not sure.

Panel 5:
A rooster man has entered his bedchambers to find a maiden dead on the floor, with a large puddle of blood and a mangled figure of the woman. There are two roosters nearby. The rooster is in distress, either over the presence of two other roosters, or the dead woman on the floor. Maybe both.

Panel 6:
A woman is trying to hide and/or prevent this rooster-bear creature from entering the room with her and another woman. She's pushing a heavy object against the door in a vain attempt to prevent this monster from entering the chamber.

Panel 7:
Two women consult what appears to be a rooster soothsayer, perhaps to get their fortunes told by this magical rooster, or get some sort of ailment cured. The rooster is either holding up a burdock root, or a bone.

Panel 8:
Two women appear to be fleeing or trying to evaid the detection of another rooster-bear creature, while a goose threatens to give away their location from behind one of the women. The rooster bear simply lurks in the background while a candle burns on the floor.

[Week 1] The Arrival ~ Response! 🐸

With this comic, I feel the thing that helps it be the most successful in it's form of storytelling is the fact that it's got such great formatting with the panels and the specific amount of panels. With this being a wordless comic, the amount of story that can be told heavily relies on how successful the illustration and it's sequence is.
Another interesting thing about this comic is the fact that there isn't any onomatopoeia, which makes it a truly wordless comic.

This comic manages to succeed amazingly because of how it lays out the story in an easy to follow manner, as well as having very successful illustrations to tell us the mood, what's happening, and the flow of the story.

Overall, I found this comic to be a very enjoyable first read, especially with such fantastic pencil (?) illustrations to follow along with!