COMIC BOOK RESOURCES has recently published an interview with Alex Ross in which he discusses his new projects, Marvel's Invaders miniseries and Dynamite's Last Phantom.About the Phantom's redesigned costume, Alex says:
"Why would anybody be wearing garments that were heavy and restrictive in the African jungle? That's where the whole bodypaint thinking came into mind. If you take your Tarzan archetypal figure and have him go take a big wine bath with crushed berries or dripping blood – any way that you could smear this person all over with this red-violet color – that causes him to have a striking presence. Obviously, the color purple doesn't equal justice or violence or something subconscious, but this dripping effect has an impactful feeling. He's basically like Sissy Spacek coming out of that scene in 'Carrie' where she's dumped with pig's blood
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