{"id":2091,"date":"2020-02-21T08:35:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2020-01-25T13:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T21:52:55","slug":"329-sub-mariner-dysmorphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/329-sub-mariner-dysmorphia\/","title":{"rendered":"329 &#8211; Sub-Mariner Dysmorphia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/submariner-head-problems-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from Sub-Mariner #21, September 1946\" class=\"wp-image-2092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/submariner-head-problems-1.png 642w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/submariner-head-problems-1-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Sub-Mariner #21, September 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2085\">changing head shapes<\/a>, I&#8217;ve mentioned Namor the Sub-Mariner&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/256-submariners-head-trauma\/\">outrageous head shape<\/a> before, but I feel like Sub-Mariner #21 (September 1946) is peak Namor head dysmorphia.  I mean it&#8217;s just outrageous and alien:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"466\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/submariner-head-problems-2.png\" alt=\"A panel from Sub-Mariner #21, September 1946\" class=\"wp-image-2093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/submariner-head-problems-2.png 466w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/submariner-head-problems-2-300x287.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Sub-Mariner #21, September 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s even more interesting is that &#8220;Sub-Mariner vs. Green-Out&#8221;, the third Sub-Mariner story in the same issue just pages away is clearly drawn by a different artist and gives Namor a much more reasonable and realistic appearance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/submariner-good-head.png\" alt=\"Yet another panel from Sub-Mariner #21, September 1946\" class=\"wp-image-2094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/submariner-good-head.png 470w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/submariner-good-head-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/submariner-good-head-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><figcaption>Yet another panel from Sub-Mariner #21, September 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This depiction looks even more realistic than when Jack Kirby and Stan Lee first brought Sub-Mariner back in the pages of the Fantastic Four in 1962!  <a href=\"https:\/\/marvel.fandom.com\/wiki\/Sub-Mariner_Comics_Vol_1_21\">This page<\/a> tells me that the story in question was pencilled and inked by none other than Namor&#8217;s creator, Bill Everett &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Everett#Sub-Mariner\">his first credited story<\/a> after the War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of changing head shapes, I&#8217;ve mentioned Namor the Sub-Mariner&#8217;s outrageous head shape before, but I feel like Sub-Mariner #21 (September 1946) is peak Namor head dysmorphia. I mean it&#8217;s just outrageous and alien: What&#8217;s even more interesting is that &#8220;Sub-Mariner vs. Green-Out&#8221;, the third Sub-Mariner story in the same issue just pages away is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,61,90,92],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-341","tag-bill-everett","tag-marvel","tag-namor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}