Saturday, April 12, 2008
Comic Art
Let's just say, for the sake of argument that you are a god, maybe a Norse god. Suppose you die. OK, don't ask me how immortals die, I never have figured that out, let's just go with the flow here. What happens? Well that depends on if you have been a good god or a bad god. Now, in Norse mythology that means whether you died heroically or not. If you died heroically then Valhalla is the place to be. If not then you go to, well, Hel ruled by Hela. Convenient that whole naming thing, isn't it?Anyway, Hela is mean, she's green, and she is waiting to take over all of Asgard if the all-father will but give her a chance.
As we continue our romp through the greatest creations of the comic master Jack Kirby, Asgard of Marvel and the New Gods of DC we turn this week to what has to be one of the most visually stunning inentions ever to come from the King's pencil - Hela. I mean look at this creature - how does all that stuff hold itself up? There must be enough truss work in that outfit to hold up the average iron framed bridge. And if so, how does she move in it? I don't care if Hela is a god.
Often allied with the God of Mischief, and her sometimes rumored old man, Loki, Hela's Technical title is "Goddess of Death." But despite her pretension to control of all the realm, she is far more reasonable than Loki, often striking deals to win more souls for her little corner of unheroic death.But mostly she is classic Kirby visually, and if you think about it, quite visually reminiscent of some of Kirby's other classic creations, like Galactus, who also has crap coming off his head that appears impossible to support and for no discernible reason. Regardless, it is the kind of thing that when you are reading through a comic book, you just have to stop and look for a bit. Comic art at its finest.
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