May 20, 2009

Tales of the DISPROPORTIONATE HEROES!

Yep, comics artists are people too, so yep -- they make mistakes like anyone else. Stan Lee, when he began the "No-Prize" decades ago, pretty much enabled fans to go looking for any sort of blunder they could find in Marvel's pages.

Today we have the cover to Uncanny X-Men #173. Paul Smith had just recently assumed art chores from stalwart X-artist Dave Cockrum, and this Wolverine-dominated cover is pretty darn cool ... except that new X-Man Rogue must have some fairly ... unique anatomy:


Where, precisely, is her right leg bending? At that angle, it'd have to going through her left leg -- at least partially. The way she's depicted, there's just no way for that right leg to be anywhere else! And if it's somehow neatly "wrapped" around her left leg, then Smith's [non-existent] next panel would have to be of Rogue falling smack on her face.

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