Film nerds always like to blather on about the 180-degree rule like it's some big fucking revelation or something, when my Nana could have recognised how that people on the left of the screen should stay on the left when it cuts back to them.
But sometimes you get someone like a young John Romita Jr having a crack at that sacred cow, and producing a banger of a comic cover like Amazing Spider-Man 233.
Yeah, it flips the observer right around, but so fucking what? It's a cover I remember seeing at 8 and I never, ever forgot it. It's expertly balanced, and Tarantula looks like a total tool getting ka-powed in the face like that. Fuck the rules, as a comic cover, it's absolute dynamite.
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