Semiotics - XXL

I am going to deconstruct XXL magazine on how it uses semiotics and polysemic images and signs convey a particular theme. Imagining there was no text associated with the magazine the two fingers pointing to his head would instinctively make you think suicide as it look as though two guns are pointed at him. Also Immediately the red piece of text which says ‘self destruction’ catches your eye and the use of the colour red which is usually associated with blood and death further adds to the use of semiotics, self destruction could also be seen to be associated with suicide. The ‘smoke sumthin’ piece of text on the left could also symbolise the smoke from a gun after a shot has been fired.