[2][3] It is typically used in illustrations of explosions, smoke, blasts from ray guns, "cosmic" energy, and outer space phenomena.
attraction in Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure,[6] and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
[7][8] Philosophy professor and author Jeffrey J. Kripal wrote: For Kirby, the human body is a manifestation or crystallization of finally inexplicable energies—a superbody.
[...] What Mesmer called animal magnetism, Reichenbach knew as the blue od, and Reich saw as a radiating blue cosmic orgone becomes in Jack Kirby a trademark energetics signaled by "burst lines" and a unique energy field of black, blobby dots that has come to be affectionately known as the "Kirby Krackle" [...].
The final result was a vision of the human being as a body of frozen energy that, like an atomic bomb, could be released with stunning effects, for good or for evil.