tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778276361957351199.post8665483411288835272..comments2024-02-29T14:12:01.955-05:00Comments on Flashback Universe Blog: New Comics I'm Digging - CaineJim Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05006833955333061262noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778276361957351199.post-4216607827019529412010-08-11T10:23:39.631-04:002010-08-11T10:23:39.631-04:00@MattComix
That's deep Matt. I was thinking t...@MattComix<br />That's deep Matt. I was thinking that some characters look DAMN cool in costume, while some stories work better without one. :)<br /><br />@Jim<br />I know I dig it!Cainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12654286795401273101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778276361957351199.post-20040782752345390012010-08-09T21:53:29.414-04:002010-08-09T21:53:29.414-04:00Thank you for the heads up on Haunt! I've been...Thank you for the heads up on Haunt! I've been wondering about that series as it sounded sort of like the type of thing I would dig!Jim Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05006833955333061262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778276361957351199.post-18823232821866223542010-08-09T10:55:13.776-04:002010-08-09T10:55:13.776-04:00The idea of a superhero costume has become narrowe...The idea of a superhero costume has become narrowed I think by the genres own careless fourth-wall breaking. I don't think superhero comics should needlessly call attention to it by having the characters in-story refer to the costumes as "tights" and "spandex". <br /><br />Or as sometimes happens in movies "rubber" when they're trying to sell audiences imaginations on the idea it's body-armor. <br /><br />In the context of superheroes what is a costume if not a reoccurring design meant to express in a kind of lyrical visual language a distinction between that character's default normal or ordinary self and who or what that person is when their powers are in use. But isn't something transforming the person themselves in the same sense that Banner becomes the Hulk. <br /><br />It can be just an expression of a another identity that conceals the mortal one but also be something that has some actual in-story purpose and function to it as well. Whether it be symbiotic goo, transforming power armor, or one magic word that gives a guy a tiny white cape.MattComixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14015552734150732758noreply@blogger.com