Comics printed on skin
No, I’m not talking about the junior edition of the Necronomicon. I’m talking about people whose interest in comic books and comic book characters goes beyond the normal threshold of fandom.
Now, before you go thinking I’m anti-tattoo, I’m not. No, I don’t have any, but that’s because I haven’t found anything I like enough to have etched permanently onto my body. Hell, I’m not even that attached to my name, let alone anyone else’s.
Over at this foreign website (too lazy to figure out what the language is — I’ve been extremely poor at posting this summer, don’t start knocking me now!), there are dozens of photos of people’s ink. Cartoon ink. In their skin.
Hey - I like spandex superheroes as much as the next (semi-normal) person, but you won’t catch me getting Wolverine etched all over me:
Yikes. I have several tatts, but I’d draw the line at superheroes.
Why? Are they less or more relevant than, say…a flaming skull, Maple Leaf or random Chinese calligraphic characters?
I think they become dated faster than more abstract images. Certainly their costumes do (which is why they change with the times, with the exception of certain very iconic costumes, which also change, though subtly).
I wouldn’t get the flaming skull either, and any set of characters drawn at random seems like a bad idea — though I doubt that many people have had themselves inked with random characters.