Supergraphic: Good vs Evil
PRIMARY = GOOD
Historically, hero costumes have been designed in red, yellow, and blue. Spandex in primary colors is a visual cue to a character’s pure and heroic nature.
SECONDARY = EVIL
The costume color conventions developed early on for supervillains too. Orange, green, and purple signal a character’s evil and polluted intentions.
Infographic: Visualizing the Deaths and Resurrections of the Most Iconic Superheroes
In his book Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe, former WIRED design director and Comic Foundry magazine editor-in-chief Tim Leong breaks down the world of sequential art in sleek, colorful charts that range from data-rich displays on the history of comic book movies to pie charts depicting the favorite pizzas of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In today’s excerpt, Leong maps out a timeline of the deaths and resurrections of some of the most popular superhero characters—including frequent die-er Jean Grey), and their complicated journey through the revolving door of superhero life and death.
