I mean, that will tire out your baby blues...
But a few drops of Visine-X and those baby blues are back to their crystal clear sapphire in no time at all.
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Gaze deeply into the mesmerizing yet strangely sensual eyes of Charles Xavier
We all know the color of Ben Grimm's eyes...but quick, without lookin' below, what color are Professor Charles Xavier's eyes?
Well, most of the time...
And, when he wasn't working near the heat lamps at Arby's...
I mean, that will tire out your baby blues...
But a few drops of Visine-X and those baby blues are back to their crystal clear sapphire in no time at all.
I mean, that will tire out your baby blues...
But a few drops of Visine-X and those baby blues are back to their crystal clear sapphire in no time at all.
Maybe the most educational thing I ever read in a Marvel Comics letters page was in a "Fantastic Four" issue somewhere around 275. Someone wrote in to complain that Reed's eyes were suddenly brown when they had been blue; the response was that they were actually brown back in the book's early days, then blue, and presumably John Byrne wanted them to be brown again. The reason for the change to blue: Since brown required three of the four printing colors (magenta, yellow and black) and blue only required cyan, Marvel just got cheap there for a while.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's when I understood why cyan eyes were the go-to color for eyes in the comics. (And, as panels 3 and 4 suggest, if you've got the cyan out anyway, you might as well make the background that color too.)