Friday, 10 July 2009

Favourite Moments in Comics #6 - Marvels


This is one of those "wow" moments. Kurt Busiek & Alec Ross' Marvels series took a look at the familiar - in this case the formation of the Marvel universe - from the point of view of an ordinary bystander; it was a technique often used in film, but rarely in comics.

Artist Ross has gained a reputation for gorgeous painted artwork, but it's not his brushstrokes that were the draw here. In this panel, we see one of the Avengers, Giant Man stride across a New York street, but Ross' composition really brought home the idea that these were *super* heroes - very different from ordinary people - and that their (ahem) perspective was very different from ours.

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