Contextual influences.

I have chosen the comics of Thor. Thor is a fitcional superhero (god) the comics are about a god from a city called asgard and they are mainly about his life as a god and how he protects the world from various foes.

All the recorded writers of these comics are the following.

Stan Lee,
Gerry Conway,
Roy Thomas,
Bill Mantlo,
Len Wein,
Ralph Macchio,
Mark Gruenwald,
Doug Moench, Walt Simonson,
Tom DeFalco,
Ron Frenz,
Ron Marz,
Warren Ellis,
William Messner-Loebs
Dan Jurgens,
Michael Avon Oeming
J. Michael Straczynski,
Kieron Gillen,
Matt Fraction.

All the recorded pencillers, inkers andcolorist (artists) for the comics are the following.

Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, John Buscema, Keith Pollard, Bob Hall, Mark Bright, Walt Simonson, Ron Frenz, M.C. Wyman, Mike Deodato, Pasqual Ferry John Romita, Jr., Erik Larsen, Andy Kubert, Stuart Immonen, Joe Bennett, Paco Medina, Scot Eaton, Tom Raney Oliver Coipel, Marko Djurdjević, Billy Tan, Doug Braithwaite, Pasqual Ferry Pasqual Ferry

Joe Sinnott,  Mike Esposito Scott Hanna. Influences that some of the writers had. Stann lee- His influnce came from the civil and world war to try and keep peoples spirit alive by created these masked  heroes fighting back the enemies (germans). Thor came from the norse mythology and stan thought to turn into a more heroic icon and made the myth into reality through a comic book. Stan was born on December 28th 1922 in Manhattan making him 88 years old he began writing comics in the 1950's,60's. before then it was only Detective Comics(DC) but stan found that most of the superheroes either couldnt be killed or where millionaires. Stan realised that with superheroes they are needed everyday but under a mask they would have a alter ego such as spiderman and peter parker. Spiderman was his first comic featuring a geeky scrawny boy at school who has a tough live but then is bitten by a unique spider and is transformed into a muscular superhero with responsibilitys. Stan went on to create a load of over comics such as Fantastic Four, The incredible Hul, Captain America and Iron Man etc. Thor unlike any of his older comics was born with super powers but was rekless and also wanted to fight and did not think of consequens, thor is taught by his fater for years to become more like a man and less like a foolish boy.Stan creates thor to be alredy suited up and ready for batle whereas his other superheroes create there suits and weapons after they gain power.

The thor comic art work has change extremely since the first apperance of thor at first they was not much heavy armour really exaggerated with thor and himself seems to be quite thin for a mighty god the colors used are faded and boring.he still has the same long blonde hair and his mighty hammer (Mjolnir), nothing is changed about thor merely replenished and more extravegent colors are used to make him look more royal. the left image is the first thor and as you can see he looks pretty basic there is a basic color of orange used.
In this image on the right you can see that there alot more bold colors and glossy colors which makes thor look much better because he know has more of an outline and more of a design. They've added shiny chainmail of arms and legs and a much more heroic helmet. His hammer s definetly smaller and is concentrated more in the modern comics. the red cape i think must be to symbolise the kind of original heroic look e.g. superman.







 God Of War (Series)
 God of War is based around the Greek Myths of the Greek Gods, in the game they include almost every God and Goddess. The game is about a spartan who is great in battle but is near the first defeat of his life and cannot withstand it and wishes help from the God Of War, the God answers and says he will help with one consequence that Kratos (the spartan) will do the Gods bidding and he will grant Kratos the Athena blades, Kratos accepts and beats the barbarian army and wins the war once again. With doing this promise the God Of War commands Kratos to go into his own village and kills everyone inside even his wife and daughter, after this souls of all the dead villagers latch on to Kratos and create a white coat over his making him pale and now named "The Ghost Of Sparta". After this Kratos is furious with the God Of War and plans to kill him long story short he defeats him and becomes the new God Of War. In the last two games the Greek gods began turn on Kratos and kill him but Kratos is saved and revived by gaia a titan of life. Whilst getting your revenge on the gods you meet the gods in battle one by one and learn a lot about the Greek myths and what they are and how they represented Greece.
The culture surroundings are based in the times of ancient Greece with the scenery of things such as stone pillars, large monuments and large amounts of nature. The influence on the Greek Gods are based around the natural view of them and then they have put in they own extras to make them look more of a warrior look.