Sunday, June 24, 2018

ऑर्फियस आणि स्पायडरमॅन यांची दिङगमूढता.... Deaths of Eurydice and Gwen Stacy

जी ए कुलकर्णी, 'ऑर्फियस', 'पिंगळवेळ', १९७७:
"... सर्पाने दंश केल्यावर काही क्षणातच युरिडिसीचे शरीर छाटलेल्या देठाप्रमाणे जमिनीवर आडवे झाले होते. माणसाचा अभिमान नष्ट करून तो किती दुर्बल आहे हे दाखवणारा तो क्षण असा अकस्मात समोर उभा राहताच ऑर्फियस अगदी दिङगमूढ होऊन गेला होता ..." 

जीएंच्या भाषेला तोडीसतोड असे चित्र 'मार्व्हल'च्या कलावंतांनी केलेले आहे.... पण चित्र पहावत नाही.... ती लटकत असलेली मान, निर्जीव देह ... आणि कोणाचा,  तर प्रत्यक्ष स्पायडरमॅनची मैत्रीण ग्वेन स्टेसीचा....




Gwen Stacy’s death. Photo: Marvel Entertainment

The Amazing Spider-Man No. 121 (1973)


Writers: Gerry Conway and Gil Kane; Penciler: Kane; Inkers: John Romita and Tony Mortellaro; Colorist: David Hunt; Letterer: Artie Simek

3 comments:

  1. May be Gwen here is not dead. The location is one of the favourites of spiderman.. but reminds me of the initial captors where he is discovering himself as a superhero..that is why a kind of boasting line.."i am the best superhero o two legs"

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  2. May be pictures with similar sentiment of helplessness (and involving spider man) could be found in the latest marvel movie.. when close superhero friends disintegrate at snap of a finger by Thanos

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  3. Thanks SJ....I am simply stunned by this cartoon....and hence had to invoke GA....When my mother died, I too was although I am neither superhero nor "a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth"....

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