I don't think there should be an smoking heroes in the Marvel Age books, as those are targeted towards younger readers, and one doesn't want them to start puffing away on the cancersticks. But in regular comics, it should reflect real life. Some people smoke, some people are homosexual, some people are aliens supercharged by yellow sun radiation.
Originally posted by ScarletSpider
I don't think there should be an smoking heroes in the Marvel Age books, as those are targeted towards younger readers, and one doesn't want them to start puffing away on the cancersticks. But in regular comics, it should reflect real life. Some people smoke, some people are homosexual, some people are aliens supercharged by yellow sun radiation.
And of course smoking characters who eventually die of lungcancer caused by smoking, after haver contributed to the air pollution.
Empath: As to there not being more tattooed comic book characters, I think that's mostly because of, who wants to draw all those intricate patterns EVERY panel? Did you read the Ultimate X-Men arc with Mister Sinister? He was a heavily tattooed gun toting psycho. Panel to panel his tattoo's were all different, and by the end the artist kind of gave up and just squiddled and made fiddily patterns on his arm.
Simple stuff like Bishop's M over his eye and other random scars and stuff are fine, because they're not that hard to draw, but in an artist's place, do you want to concentrate that hard and spend a day just on someone's arm? Heck, even the little stuff sometimes gets overlooked, in Thunderbolts Hawkeye recieved a cut to his face and thus recieved a good sized, noticable scar on his lip. Only Mark Bagely--the man who introduced the look, and Stefano Raffaele who followed up in Hawkeye's fairly recent solo series (written by Fabian Nicieza who was the writer on Thunderbolts when the scar appeared and no doubt due to Stefano's great realistic style, he pays close attention to lots of things and history).
So if artists can't be bothered to dash two lines on someone's lip, how're they going to even think about drawing all those tattoos? Even simple ones.
Originally posted by ScarletSpider
So if artists can't be bothered to dash two lines on someone's lip, how're they going to even think about drawing all those tattoos? Even simple ones.