The character depictions in The Dark Night Returns are fluid and subject to change based on the tonal connotations of the moment. As he professes he chose a cartoon style as an accessible means to teach, it is simplistic and geometric style. Scott McCloud uses a variety of styles when exploring the realm of comics. The characters are also stylized into a simple and iconic geometric shorthand. Interactions between cosmic beings, such as intimacy, are depicted in surreal vignettes. Space is not represented realistically, instead energies are visible and take up space. However, often its characters are allegorical and the style is overall more geometrical. Like Red Tide Future Day often has literal representations of its subjects. Its characters have consistent depictions and little symbolic purpose,in addition abstract concepts lack physical representations as in some other works. This style is the most dedicated to realism. Below the other readings in our course are placed on the same continuum based on their artistic leaning. These points of reference are placed onto a continuum of realism, symbol and abstract geometry. McCloud uses this as a spring board to discuss a type of image which has no underlying meaning. This is contrasted to realistic artwork, where the form is meant to portray form only and little underlying meaning. The shapes of our words do not relate to the shapes of their meanings, the words are simply their meanings. McCloud also talks about how the ultimate simplification of a symbol for face is language. These require no effort to identify as a face, and consequently are more foreign to the reader. A little of the reader has to go into it to make that happen. This is contrasted to photo-realistic images, which identify a particular individual. The urge to make a face from simple lines requires effort to give it life. He continues to say that even when this amalgam face is given a name its symbolic nature is so powerful that the reader still identifies with the character as self. McCloud posits that this face acts as a general person, a short hand for human. The most simplistic image displays a geometric face. He places these images on a continuum between the most impressionistic to the most realistic. In understanding comics Scott McCloud attempts to explain the gulf in visual detail in popular comics.
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