In illustrations of Galactus in If This Be Doomsday, Kirby draws his anatomy superior to the opposing characters; his structure takes the entire space of a singular panel, revealing his ligaments as abnormally elongated and muscled. Kirby portrays the definition in his figure to cause his muscles to protrude twice the amount of size of one member of the Fantastic Four, covering the entire body of an opposing figure in the same panel. Additionally, the artists draw Galactus larger than the opposing characters in this comic to illustrate the massive advantage his figure produces compared to the heroic figures in the human world. Specifically in the panels when Ben engages in a battle with Galactus, his head is drawn twice the size of Ben’s body, where in conjunction with his width, is thrice the size of Ben’s singular hand. Within this battle, Ben’s height only reaches the hip of Galactus’ towering figure, conveying to the reader that he is twice as tall as a singular member of the Fantastic Four. His titan figure, depicted in staggering proportions, becomes a reflection of his larger than life power against the human world. This power allows Galactus to drain the entire human world of its life-energies, effectively exterminating mankind. The artists create a parallel between Galactus’ figure and powers to reflect to the reader the large …show more content…
In If This Be Doomsday Stan Lee depicts Master’s with the inability to witness the intruder in her home, causing her to become dependent on her sense of touch to identify her invader. By using physical contact, Master’s raises her hands to the face of her intruder, exclaiming: “Your face! Never have I sensed such unimaginable loneliness in a living being!” (8). Immediately, Masters identifies Silver Surfer as a “living being” by operating her heightened sense of touch as a tool to uncover an “unimaginable loneliness” displayed amongst his features. Visibly by the illustrator’s drawings, Silver Surfer is indicative of a non-human, depicted as a “Strange cosmic creature” (7). The reader becomes aware of this classification largely due to how it appears in the course of the reading – a body completely coated in a peculiar silver colour- and how it surfaces to the fore of Master’s home: on a sliver surfer board that enables him to transport by flying. However, Masters physical inability to see warrants her identification of the creature as a “living being” for it resembles components similar to hers: a face including a nose and eyes. Once Masters arrives at the conclusion that the Silver Surfer appears to be suffering