If you had to choose, would you call this a depiction of contempt, anger, or something else? Scott McCloud's Making Comics has a section on basic expressions, which he thinks we will all recognize. I found that I disagreed with some of his characterizations there. More so, when he 'combined' base looks to show more complex emotions. Outside of context, human facial expression seems wildly interpretable and subjective to me. Yourself?
It looks like disdainful surprise to me, as though he has seen a vermin, or a maggot crawling along the ground.
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