Post by drakeborough on Jul 10, 2017 19:36:13 GMT
We're getting off topic here, but ...
I still maintain that the Blot works best as a villain if an air of mystery is maintained about what he looks like under the hood. I agree that having him cloaked all the time is a silly way to achieve it, but perhaps, on those occasions when he is not in costume, he could be hidden in shadow or obscured from view by some clever camera angles.
Maybe it's better if we open a separate thread for this, but at any rate I fail to see how the Western Blot, who appeared in bad stories like "The Invisible Blot", "The Cat's Meow" and "Rescue of the Super Planet", is more mysteryous than the Blot who often shows his face in many non-American stories, which are generally better written, and in which he was much scarier. Plus, him always wearing his hood makes it seem he is an alien rather than a masked guy.
Also, the ending of his first story is too iconic to be ignored.
In the American comics, he was never shown unmasked after his original Gottfredson appearance, so it would have still been plausible to pursue such an artifice (in the Italian comics, I guess, his being unmasked was de rigueur).
But having his daughter also be masked was, indeed, ridiculous.