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Notę the two thighs of our black-garbed bad guy above. Obviously, in real lite they’d both be the same size. Yet, in this dramatically foreshortened pose, see how his right thigh seems to have become considerably shorter than his left, because it’s tilted at such a severe angle and pointed almost directly at us—as revealed very clearly in the accompanying building-block sketch.

The same goes for the shot of The Thing, on the right-hand side of the facing page. See how very much shorter his left leg seems to be— and his right arm, as well—both because of the extreme angles at which they’re drawn. It’s this skillful use of foreshortening that makes a figurę seem to really come to life as it goes into action on the printed page.