Mythos
Heracles
Behind the Scenes
Heracles was meant to be one of two figures, though I started getting work before I could complete it. He was going to be wrestling Cerberus, the three–headed hound that guards the gates of the underworld. Heracles’ twelfth and last great labor was to capture and bring the terrifying beast out of Hades. Even though I got around to roughing out a version of the pooch, I thought the figure worked well alone –almost like a “man yells at cloud” piece. The weariness on the aging hero’s face, his paunch and scarred hands and features, worked well with the gesture and pose, as if he were looking up to the heavens and asking how much more torment he’d have to endure. If you’re familiar with the myths, the answer is unfortunately, “quite a bit more”.
Heracles
People who criticize comic books and the films based on them as being facile or juvenile don’t accept that they are modern myth cycles, allegories and creation stories, passion plays and polemical satires. They may not be to everyone’s tastes, or of equal merit, but they shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand as a genre. The great myths of the Greeks, with their fickle gods, tragic heroes and often downbeat endings, made a mark on my impressionable young mind.
Heracles was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene. He was a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic (underworld) monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules.
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