Now I'm humming that song and it won't go away.

[theweaselking]

A federal judge has ordered Marvel Enterprises Inc. to pay Stan Lee, the creator of the comic book character Spider-Man, 10 percent of Marvel's profits from the 'Spider-Man' movies.

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[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

... and Stan Lee's making the Sign of the Horns; note that his thumb is tucked in, unlike Spiderman's.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

But while movie-spidey is making the modern sign, Stan is making the traditional one that comic-spidey (and TV-spidey) always made way back when.

Of course, neither of them has their wrists bent enough, but that's not the point.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

They probably stopped using the traditional Spidey-hand-sign because somebody said it meant Spidey was "of the Devil".

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

More likely, since it's supposed to be spidey pushing a button in his palm to trigger the webshooter, they just realised what an utter bitch it is to apply pressure to your palm with the thumb tucked in, and how much easier it is with the thumb out.

Cartoon characters don't worry about this, and cartoon *artists* didn't always check that kind of thing back in the Good Old Days(tm)

[jl-williams.livejournal.com]

Sure they did. It's just that from a comic/cartoon point of view, the thumb pointing outward makes the hand less flat and mitten-like. It's the same reason that a lot of cartoon characters have their pinkies offset just a little no matter what the hands are doing.

In the end, the rules and conventions of animation and comic art trump the physics and common sense. Always.