Hello readers! Welcome back, today we are going to do something a little different than usual. I had the oppritunity to attend the largest Jack Kirby exhibit in the world recently and this inspired me to look at how Villans are portrayed visually. One of the panels that struck me was a beautiful penciled original of an old "Thor" cover. In the image we see right smack in the center a dastardly villain punching though an asteroid to hit Thor.
As we know from Molly Bang's "Picture This" we know that whatever lies in the center of an image is interpreted as the most important. Clearly in this panel the villain has all of the control. Next, I wanted to analyze what he was wearing. It appeared to be some sort of heavy battle armor mixed with a space suit. These invoke feelings of fear strength and perhaps even mystery. This got my mind thinking and I realized that many Villans sport battle armor or some sort of heavy suit. For example we can look at, Doctor Doom, Lex Luthor's battle suit, Loki, and the list goes on. So from this image we can extrapolate that a villain usually has control and some sort of way to convey strength, frear, and fighting.
No comments:
Post a Comment