Saturday, August 23, 2008
Comic Art
Because, well, every good senior-in-charge, all-father type, in this case Odin, needs a nemesis of equal power - we have the Ice Giant Ymir. As the Marvel Universe Directory says:he tends to focus all of his energies towards destruction and little else.Makes "Hulk Smash" look quaint, does it not?
I must comment that Ymir is one of the least attractively rendered comic characters I know of. By that I do not mean the art is bad, I just mean - What is an ice giant supposed to look like that would be interesting? I mean the guy is a large walking undefrosted refrigerator. (If you are old enough to remember when refrigierators were not "frost-free."
Come to think of it - X-Men's "Iceman" kind of suffers from the same problem.Ymir is; however, a most worthy adversary for not just Odin and the denizens of Asgard, but for the likes of the Avengers.
Nonetheless, I could not find any Kirby rendering of this character - What does that tell you?
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