Mitchell - Paul's Loco Peril |
This image may look familiar to you and yet different.
It's my reinterpretation of the War Comic cover art I posted a couple of days ago as Bizarre Brutality No 2. In that article I fantasised about the sadistic captor forcing his captive to undress before tying him to the tracks. This is my visualisation of that alternative.
As I hoped, the melodramatic, winding bondage works quite well on bare skin, suggesting truly inescapable restraints (although this method isn't usually - if you have the time). But while the original captive raged at his predicament, this man shows his hardness as he calmly contemplates his fate. It's almost dreamlike in fact.
I tried to give him a degree of maturity fitting for the sabotage role.
I originally planned to have him dressed in underpants of a more contemporary style, i.e. white, high-waisted and with prominent seams at the front where the opening is. Underwear which shouts out it's functionality in other words and would therefore be humiliating to be shown to the enemy. However, the sinuous shaping of his naked body (which resulted quite naturally from filling-in the outline of the original, clothed captive) seemed to warrant something skimpier. Since this man is supposed to be a French Resistance worker, I thought it perfectly possible that he might wear slinky, possibly silk, Parisian briefs under his trousers. Equally fertile ground for an enemies ridicule but in a different way.
An alternative story line might see the sabotage of a coastal railway line attempted by members of the Special Boat Squadron (SBS, a sort of Navy Commando unit). When his wet suit is removed his sexy, swimming trunks are revealed. Or perhaps he didn't wear a wet suit.....
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