How many people actually smile with only their upper teeth showing? Terrifying. It almost looks like some of his more recent works are just traced copies of this shit.
KP's entire world (or rather his perception of world) is turned upside down, appareantly it touches also his creations :] (I could imagine that it would look like more normal with both upper and down line of teeth, but nope) I've seen plenty of left-wing/liberal propaganda, but this simply beats in terms of crudeness everything I've seen earlier (at least in terms of short movies).
I think that's supposed to be Alexander, the kid he's talking to. Unless you're talking about the panel next to the close-up, in which case, yeah...
Thanks to me watching my nephew so often and having to watch his kid shows, I can actually answer this question for ya! Emma Wiggle from The Wiggles almost exclusively smiles with only her top teeth...not that far off from Ken's depiction either. As for Ken's latest page...well...at least it looks slightly better then his first depictions of Lara-Su, that CG(?) nightmare I'd rather not ever see again..
The problem there is you can see gaps between the teeth and the edges of the mouth. Now, if you blackout the teeth at either end of the mouth...
Yeah, I figured, but up until this point the problem had been summed up as only your top teeth showing.
Yeah, people tend to not realize how funny something looks until it they see a bad artist, complain how funny it looks and learn "no, that's accurate." Regardless, there is an issue with the teeth as I demonstrated, just not the one people thought.
I still find this terrifying. And the art is still bad. I maybe the teeth are just too large or something.
Not to mention too human. Alexander is a Klingon, and a kid at that, so shouldn't he have pointy Klingon baby teeth? Hell, why even have that closeup? You could've just drawn a zoomed out shot of Alexander saying "Thank you, father" or something. I just...
This is where the Trek nerd beams in and points out that Alexander is only three-quarters Klingon - his mother K'Ehleyr was half human, so there's 25% human DNA in there. Enough to fix teeth, maybe (though it's been seen more than once that there are full Klingons with very human teeth, largely down to budget/lazyness of the costuming dept at Paramount so probably not canon, but w/e)?
I completely forgot about his mom being half human (been a while since I've watched TNG; on DS9 at the moment), so if human DNA is causing it that would make SOME sense. Still creepybad art/pointless closeup though lol.
Re: The smile - if my memory serves me right, one of the actors for Alexander (as a kid) had a creepy smile anyway. But yeah shit art is shit
The problem is that his teeth are too uniform, so they look fake, which makes him look creepy because we don't really like fakeness in facial features like that on an instinctive level.
