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Awesome piece, with an absurd increase of intensity to the original pose reference.•• I've had a few debates over the years about just how dynamic an action shot should be for a character who is demonstrating super strength. In the AVENGERS issues where Count Nefaria became essentially the SIlver Age Superman, Shooter, as writer, wanted lots of shots of the Count straining and sweating and bulging his muscles, but I argued against that. If he's SUPERMAN, after all, there are not many things that would tax him to that degree. Something else is at work when we compare this shot to the IRON MAN cover. Simon, here, is, of course, using his own brute strength to tear the beam in half, so naturally there would be some indication of this in the pose. Iron Man, on the other hand, is using the mechanism of his suit, so there would be no need to strain. (Coincidentally, I was in downtown New Canaan yesterday, and outside the fire station there is a newly erected monument to Sept 11, composed of one of the twisted girders from the World Trade Center mounted on a stone slab. Looking at it, I was reminded of how "solid steel", when subjected to enough force, bends and tears like paper.)
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