GIANT ATTACK MONSTERS MEGA-BATTLE! pg19
Here’s the kaiju form of Hypnausea; since practically the beginning of this story everyone’s been commenting about what his monster-transformation would look like (then again, it was left off of the book cover and crowdfunding promo images). I keep forgetting just how popular Hypnausea is among readers, so much so that you’d think he would have gotten a spin-off sitcom by now (it would be cancelled after one broadcast after the FCC saw what that pervert was doing).
For Kickstarter backers, make sure your surveys have been completed (and if you haven’t sent info for your art commissions or ‘Be A Kaiju’ caricatures, you’re holding things up!); everything is heading out the door and I don’t want to begin general sales until all backers have gotten their Rewards. Let’s get those comics out there!
Its like a colossal ant eater…
A giant anteater (or rather a GIANT giant anteater or Myrmecophaga tridactyla) could be a pretty cool kaiju.
Of course any anteater would be “stupid” and “repulsive”, right MST3K fans?
Honestly, I’m more impressed with the articulation of the hands than anything else about Hypnausea. I mean, I cant think of why additional joints helps for fingers, but it makes for extra creepy factor points.
Skeleton hands or ‘living skeletons’ in general don’t really make much sense when you factor in the missing muscles, tendons, and sinews…but what the hey, it looks neat. I was watching Jason and the Argonauts yesterday and wondering about just that, but who am I to question the great Harryhausen?
Well most times in fiction animate skeletons are magic/supernatural and its dark magic that gives them their locomotion in place of musculature. I cannot think of any instance of their presence in science fiction of any sort besides maybe a monster movie with a mad scientist and those flicks tend to focus more on that there is a given monster than on how the monster works exactly.
So I guess usually with skeletons the genre just goes with “its magic” or “a wizard did it” and the story moves onward. Here though we have a sci-fi deal with a mutation ray that turned Hypnausia into this form via genetic alteration. I guess his new multi-jointed phalanges could just be like how spider legs work; exoskeletal appendages that use bodily fluids like a hydraulic system to extend and retract.
Also, all this talk of kaiju brought this gem to mind:
http://coub.com/view/50g55
Oddly I think Hypnausea would approve of this particular form…… it’s very melodramatic and all in his colours! Oh geez, I don’t think even San Fran can take a mile tall drama queen…….
If you were to stack every drama queen in San Francisco you’d get a pile much taller than any kaiju!
wouldn’t that BE most of San Fransisco?
And I bet the Kaiju would be thankful for the piled up dinner! Seriously, great work on this, and I especially love the sound effects. I remember the old movies where you just had weird rumbling sounds in the background ALL the time for the monsters and these are right on the money!
And the best part would be the ones at the bottom would be crushed to death!
Someone call MythBusters, they need to !!science!! this idea to see just how many drama queens it takes to crush a drama queen to death.
I think that just leaves Oliver having not been seen? Which honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if he was still super short, not even Zarbonok being able to do much for him in that category.
We shall see what has become of Oliv–er, Dr. Caliban shortly (heh…”shortly”…I’m such a jerk). In the meantime, there’s plenty of monsters to enjoy!
I just noticed dada man on the building.
It gets harder and harder to get Dadaman into stories as the years go by; even a wacky aliens-and-kaiju story like this one seems too ‘normal’ to justify having a role for him. Well, a cameo is still something and he can tell SAG he got a role to keep his benefits!
makes sense. He’s random wackiness. not structured wackiness.