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Another Bloodrayne piece, art by Andie Tong.Related content
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I doubt she is able to slice a Panzer Tiger... Because this could be the only weapon able to kill she.
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awesome picture Rayne looks very bloodthirsty. ย
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I'm kinda mixed,....is she a hero or villian?
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She is a hero. Think of her as Marvel Comics' Blade, only she fights both vampires and Nazis who are helping the vampires unlock the mystical powers of the Occult.
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Also gas mask containers and other stuff were not colored blue. [link]
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There blue highlights from the obviously blue background colors. Plus this picture and every other picture in his gallery was NOT asking for a critique, and btw, your critiques are beyond useless. So, unless you work in the comic book world for over 10 years like this artist, I don't think you have a damn word to say to anyone about critique.
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I didn't mean comics that were made DURING the war (these were usually completely retarded - and very often amazingly racist), but the later stuff like GI Combat and Sgt Rock and such.
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Uh? I was not even talking about any "background", but about the color of certain elements of German WWII uniforms. Gas mask containers and belts were never blue - in case of SS belts should be either black (like the eppaulets of the fallen SS-Mann's here) or brown. Background (floor) is actually darker than blue.
And whatever any "years" have do to this, or making a light sparkle (this thing between the Walther's trigger and its barrel, I don't know how to say it in English if I'm not saying it correctly) on any metal being blue - did you ever seen such thing? That is, I guessed it's a sparkle.
Well, at least it's not like in the old comics from few dozen years ago, when the Germans wore trippy purple (violet) or blue uniforms and drove purple or blue vehicles (seemingly color blind colorists or the ones who have seen WWII only in b/w things and imagined things to be "cool" or whatever - but the artists often did amazing job, very detailed stuff unlike in many superhero comics and their fantasy weapons).
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I was talking about the background because it determines the casting shadow on any paticular object in the foreground. Example: A night sky tinted in blue will cast a "glow" on other objects, making things more blue then the original color. Editors prefer a blue night sky compared the the original black simply because Comic fans think its to "dark" which kinda sucks.
Anyways, the uniforms aren't necessarily supposed to represent anyone. A colorist is rarely given details about the page they have to color and if they don't know there are "WWII Uniforms from Germans" then the colors are simply decided as "what looks best."
Plus, I believe the blue on the uniforms belt and chamber are deliberately blue. The point of the pin-up is to enhance the main character, so any background characters can't have any colors that would distract from the main character.
lol! Yes, I've seen those old comics. Makes me wonder what they were thinking when they decided purple and bright blue uniforms were going to look good.
A lot of comics use the "Nazi-Bad Guy" persona because it was a realistic threat at one point, even though it was so long ago. Personally I never cared for comics that involved such dark times, I'd rather they make up a threat.
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Also: You can the b/w artist drew several empty bullet casings on the floor - but they were not colored distinctively (blood's red on the floor is also barely visible - and it's a comic about vampires).
As for the Brozne Age colorists, I think they were either on drugs all the time or have never seen any WWII film.
But what I always wondered, is why in the comics FROM the war the Germans (except well-known officials) were most often just a Schwarzenegger-type blonde brutes (not a very negative image), while the Japanese were usually totally racist caricatures (often even with sharp teeth and claws, green skin, hunchbacked and all that - even Buddha statues were of a demonic monster).
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Red is often the most easily viewed color in comics and tends to distract from the character (unless the character is wearing red, the the main character is extremely viewable). So, even the blood would have to be made less viewable. If it was a larger pool and brighter or almost black, it would take away from the main character.
The colorist' usually had a limited palette of colors to work with, so I can understand the weird colors. All the comics from way back when were oddly colored in bright solid colors. I think it had something to do with how the comic was printed.
Hmmm.. well I think they used the blonde muscle types because of the "Aryan Race" concept brought on my Hitler and the Nazi'. They were supposed to be suppior in every way to the rest of humans and had a certain look (blonde, muscle, blue eyes, etc.). In WWII along with Pearl Harbor, the view of Japanese bacame very mean and aggressive. Unfortunatly it hasn't changed much in comic books since then. They tend to show the Japanese in a later time period then the bright and technology enhanced Japan of today. 
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Portrayal of Germans and the Japanese at the same time: [link] [link] [link] [link]
Evil Buddha: [link] [link] [link] [link]
Ah, the Golden Age.
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That is a very odd mix of Japanese and German Nazi Warfare.
I do like the 10ยข price though.
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And some of this price went to support war effort
If you look closely at [link] even Hitler is not a caricature, the German is superman-like, but the Japs are goblins.
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I bet Hitler was considered scary enough to most people as is. Probably wanted him in the comic to destroy him, even though it was make believe in a comic. Gives people/kids hope I guess.
Can't say much about the other two things. They use stereo-types constantly in comics because a lot of people can only recognize the stereo-type and not the truth.
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I think you're continously just missing the point: it was selective dehumanizing of enemy. Typical to this war. Japanese-American civilians (mostly American citiziens) were interned in concentration camps, while German-Americans (and Italian-Americans) were not. [link]
"The Japanese were treated differently [than the other Axis]. Although many posters caricatured Tojo, the supreme commander of Japan's army, many more simply caricatured a demonized racial stereotype of the Japanese - to such extremes that the racial identity of the characters are frankly unrecognizable to someone familiar with Japanese people but not with the stereotype itself. There is a certain, difficult to define quality to racial caricature that causes them to drip with hate. American's WWII anti-Japanese propaganda posters are obscenely successful as a government-endorsed vehicle for that quality. Japanese are presented as yellow drooling, well-fanged, blackfaced, blood-sucking, chong-fonging, rong-donging demons" - [link] (some anti-German posters there too to compare)
Actually, believe it or not, it was fashionable among Americans soldiers to for example send a skull of dead "Jap" back home (one was sent to President Roosevelt). No such thing with skulls of dead Germans. FDR also happened to be a real expert on the subject their skulls: "[The Japanese] whose skull pattern being less developed than that of the Caucasians, might be responsible for their aggressive behavior."
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I was making an opinion on how or why they made such stereo-types, so I don't need you to tell me I'm "missing the point." I hadn't looked it up yet, so no need to make me ignorant and stupid.
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It's not a streotype, it's like if saying that the German posters and cartoons of Jews = monsters (kill it with fire) was a "stereotype". It's just racist hate art, only sponsored by the US government.
But yet as I wish I could I could turn into a Jap with just mud. [link]
About killing it with fire, regular hero [link] and superhero [link] versions.
Heck, I'm talking about German WWII posters, while recently it become fashionable to draw Jews as monsters here on dA ("for Gaza"). Stuff like [link] ("Originally submitted to Iran Holocaust Cartoon contest in mid-2006"). Mmm, delicious racism.
Dehumanization: [link]
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You missed the bullets casings and colored sparkle blue.
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