Forgive me if a thread like this already exists, but for several years now, I've been annoyed by the fact that many artists have a problem depicting height in comics. I'm fully cognizant of creative license and what not but many seem to overlook the appropriate height of a character. For example, I've read X-books where Wolverine is nearly as tall as Beast who is supposed to be 5' 11". Jim Lee always seems to get his heights right. He usually draws Batman an inch shorter thank Clark who's 6' 3".
Adam Kubert got his shit right too. I'm fairly sure all of us are familiar with this hilarious and famous comic page from Wolverine Vol.1 #93. Juggernaut easily towers over the runt. Wolverine looks 5'3" and Juggernaut looks 6'10"-7' feet tall:
Other artists though, can't seem to get the heights right for characters like Colossus, Cyclops, Cable et al.
It might seem trivial but it's important to me that character's height is well represented. Anyone else have any thoughts on the subject?
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they may as well do whatever the hell they want with wolverine...cuz he's just like spiderman, always in creepy, pseudo menacing crouching positions.... i do remeber a few yrs ago in an xmen comics somebody had a supposedly 5'10 Ben grimm standing shoulder to shoulder with a 7'1 colossus
The only thing I really don't like is when characters like Juggernaut and Hulk are so huge and/or fat. Sometimes their hands are bigger than the other characters and they are far larger than vehicles.
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I think there will never be a consistant look for any character, too many artist come and go....i would also like the proper height to be displayed, but i would not expect it to happen unless an artist sticks with a character and only he can draw him or her
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Jun 27th, 2008 03:11 AM
