In those scenes, the colours would suddenly change from whatever they had been in the previous panels, to be replaced by a sort of blue wash. It is this effect which I have called into play in my edit of “Norma, Queen of the Hotdogs”. Apart from the reference to the comic’s overtly violent contemporaries, the sudden shift to blue tones darkens the mood of the story, making the goings on seem sinister, and giving the whole thing a stormy, turbulent
In those scenes, the colours would suddenly change from whatever they had been in the previous panels, to be replaced by a sort of blue wash. It is this effect which I have called into play in my edit of “Norma, Queen of the Hotdogs”. Apart from the reference to the comic’s overtly violent contemporaries, the sudden shift to blue tones darkens the mood of the story, making the goings on seem sinister, and giving the whole thing a stormy, turbulent