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Originally Posted by Parademon1

I'm well aware that he is now almost 10ft tall. That & many other reasons is why I quit collecting comics over a decade ago & have just stuck to collecting Marvel legends as my connection to the marvel universe. The supersizing of certain characters just for the hell of it among other things Marvel has done to some of the characters I grew up, price hikes, mostly bad art, constant revamps of the entire line & restarting with issue #1 for the 3rd time in a handful of yrs. All that killed my love for the collecting of Marvel comics. I just stick to watching the MCU movies & the ML comic based characters, at least those they haven't jacked up.

Err....? For someone who's anal about scaling, I don't see how the scale inconsistencies in the ML line don't bother you. 6'1/200 lbs. Punisher shares the same body mold as 6'2/220 lbs. Captain America. Pizza Spidey (5'10) is as tall as Daredevil (6'0), who's as tall as Deadpool (6'2). You say the newest Venom is the perfect rendition of the character as far as scaling goes, but he shares the same body mold as Sentry (who's 3 feet shorter and weighs nearly 60 pounds less) and Luke Cage (who's 3 feet taller).

Personally, scaling doesn't bother me, so long as some general rules are kept. Colossus should always tower over most heroes. Wolverine should almost always be the shortest guy in a group. Spider-Man should always be thin and nimble.

Getting caught up in the exact, precise scaling is just asking for a headache when not even the artists put that much thought into it. And at the end of the day, it's just an artist's interpretation of a character, it's not a matter of 'right' or 'wrong'. Yes, McFarlane's Venom wasn't more than a buff bodybuilder. But other interpretations wanted to make him more monstrous and alien. That's how they chose to represent the character. That doesn't make them wrong.

And this is why I say a scale chart is nice, but that chart has characters in mostly static poses lined up side-by-side. Try to maintain absolutely perfect scaling every single time when you have to mess with perspective, putting characters in different poses, all while working with different angles and making the pages dynamic enough to be interesting. It's damned near impossible, which is why most artists just tend to guesstimate it.