HEADCANONS part 5
About PHYSICAL APPEARANCE (part 1)
(Because I do fanarts, you can see them on my artist Tumblr, TakiArte under the Marvel Eclipse tag).
WARNING, ⚠ SPOILERS ⚠
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About Luna / Moon Knight:
🌙 My preferred look for him is a mix of the style of Greg Smallwood (that you can see in Moon Knight vol 8 (2016)) and the colors he possessed in some vintage comics (differing from the hair color he has in this year's comics (2022)).
🌙 In my canon, Marc is pale (I will elaborate on this later) and he has red hair, but unnatural red, not being an actual redhead (which is usually an orange tone, as Matt Murdock/Daredevil has). This "red" color I suppose is actually the product of the attempt to achieve a certain brown tone by printers or colorists before 2000.
I will also make his eyebrows that color, but not his body hair, which is dark.
(Cut from the cover of Marc Spector: Moon Knight #18, art by Sal Velluto, Tom Palmer and Christie Scheele)
🌙 The suit I prefer and draw the most is the one seen in volume 7; this one:
🌙 I follow characteristics like: a scar on the eye that cuts his left eyebrow, his half-grown beard (sometimes shaved) and the way he combs his hair, ALTHOUGH you will also see in some art the hair as it is in the current volume (volume 9) with the beautiful art of Alessandro Cappuccio; and references to the color by Rachelle Rosenberg, especially that light blue glow that makes Luna look supernatural.
(Art by Cory Smith and Rachelle Rosenberg)
🌙 From volume 9 I also take as canon Luna having some half-healed wound, scars and bandages. I love how cute he looks with the bandage on his nose in volume 8, art by Smallwood:
If you want a drastic example of all this, you have the beginning of Moon Knight Vol 5 (2006), where the eyebrow cut originates from (a volumen I despise, where Luna has a hard time):
🌙 Voice Headcanon (how I imagine his voice sounds). Inspired by the voice acting he has in two different mediums, an animated series and a game: https://youtu.be/EC_Xt_agj14
🌙 My Moon Knight will always be this tall: 188 cm / 6’ 2’’
Canon according to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe vol 2 (1985). My Moon Knight is taller than Sentry.
(More physical appearance headcanons coming soon)
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🌞 My Sentry will always have long hair, no exception. Sometimes above the shoulders, sometimes below shoulders. But always long hair.
🌞 He's blonde. No dark eyebrows. Blonde eyebrows, blonde eyelashes, blonde body hair.
🌞 I have a distinction: the civilian appearance and the hero appearance. Bob Reynolds (Robert) and Sentry are different “phases” of the same person. Therefore, there is a change in physical appearance, just as it happened with Captain America when he received the super-soldier serum. If you know the history of Sentry, you will understand that this logic makes sense.
But this is exclusively personal, not canon according to the comics (although it has always been a confusing topic and some authors made a certain difference).
Sentry: canon superhero body. No need to describe it, you see it all the time in comics. One difference from Moon Knight is that Sentry is more muscular (although not taller -see below-).
Bob: body in a more realistic canon, following the base of the one he has in volume 1. Therefore, it has a chubby belly, it's less muscular and with less “waist” (that in Sentry is highlighted by wearing the belt). It's a type of body that I am not used to drawing so it will be a challenge for me.
🌞 Despite the change of phases, I will keep the style of his face fixed, with prominent cheekbones. I won't make his face round when he's Bob even though his body type will change.
(Art by Mike Deodato)
🌞 My Sentry has the following heights:
Bob Reynolds: 170 cm (speculated)
Sentry: 183 cm / 6’
I have proof of this height for Sentry being canon even if the artists forgot (in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (2006)). Bob's height follows my phase change rule (notable in Sentry volume 2).
He's always shorter than Moon Knight.
(More physical appearance headcanons coming soon)
To be continued
