| Posted: 06 September 2010 at 10:27am | IP Logged | 5
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I'd hardly call FF 5"s version a "false start"! Doom there wore a more "realistic" armor -- it looked like something that a human being could actually wear. The later versions reverted to the impossible joints we see most of the time in armored characters. We can only guess why Doom's armor was different when he retuned in issue 6, but looking just now at the last page from 5, hanging on my Studio wall, I cannot help but notice that Kirby did not draw the original, more detailed armor consistently even from panel to panel! He may well have decided to sacrifice detail and "realism" upon the altar of consistency! ++++++++ Well, by "false start", I mean, "something either Lee or Kirby or both were unsatisfied with". Personally, I vastly prefer the revised suit to the original. Setting aside the fact that the whole Supreme Monarch bit came in later as a "reveal", where would a ruler like Doom be without his cape? (Interestingly enough, there is a hint of a cape on the splash of FF 5, as I recall, but not in the rest of the story.)
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