SINISTER MONSTER DOOM LEGION pt.22
Scaling giant monsters is always a tricky problem for filmmakers (and I don’t mean putting all the scales on them…hello? This thing on? Never mind). A famous example is the original King Kong; when originally conceived for the film, Kong was about eighteen feet and appears as such during his scenes on “Skull Island”. When it came time to send Kong to New York, however, the formerly gigantic ape suddenly didn’t look so gigantic anymore. Director Merian C. Cooper lamented, “He isn’t big enough!” as Kong was dwarfed by the city structures and, in a lapse of continuity, Kong suddenly increased in size (as for how big he grew, accounts vary. Some folks say twenty-five feet, some thirty, some whatever).
I mention this to shift the blame to someone else for my own mistakes to point out just how difficult it is to deal with giant monsters. Godzilla’s size varies as wildly as one hundred to five hundred feet, depending on who you ask.
This is all brought up because I have to confess, I never gave a helluva lot of thought to just how big the Behemoth truly is (don’t be a perv). It’s BIG. That’s all I can say. In fact, it seems to have gotten bigger in today’s installment, meaning there must have been some secret doohickey installed in the robot that makes him…bigger. Maybe.
Well, what can I say? Usually cartoonists just have to watch out for typos in their comics. Me, I get to spend my nights whining over just how big a robot dinosaur is supposed to be when it’s smashing a city. Yeah, you want my kind of problems.
As always, Love the way this page came out. I also like the Captain’s war Journal and how well he kept true to himself my accounting for everything, as well as “filling” his pants. That made me think about Jurassic park and how everybody didn’t evacuate their bowels when the T-Rex or Velociraptors were after them. I don’t know about you, but if that was me, I would be filling out my War Journal the same way.
I’m just happy the captain lived long enough to complete his journal entry for the day.
I don’t want god to protect her “big fat butt”. And I want her screwjob, to be screwed. I’m with scapula, the poor victim.
You can make this monolith as big as you need to. It already scares the heck outta me. I do not want this thing stomping thru my hometown. 🙂 That guy on the slide-line should have called in sick today.
It’s true! I am a stickler for detail… I get all bent out of shape if something isn’t right proportionally. Luckily Squid Row is only “based” on Cannery Row… (that’s the power of fiction, I guess)… although I still have trouble with actual history being fictionalized… where truth is distorted to make the movie better…that makes me bananas! Or when people take someone else’s work and make a “fictionalized backstory”… like “Wicked”…. ooo, was I just ranting? sorry.
@Roland Good times, huh? Regarding the denizens of Jurassic Park pooping their britches: didn’t the lawyer die on the toilet? I don’t know whether or not he dropped a load before the Tyrannosaurus ate him, but if he did at least he got his revenge.
Um…moving right along…
@Bearman Most “dramatic” falls in movies are really, really, really slow. He had enough time to finish writing (dictating?) his journal, call his wife and tell her to start dinner without him, pick out a shirt to wear to tomorrow’s meeting, and THEN slammed into the pavement.
@mehdi Who would possibly screw her big fat buttOH LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME TYPE!
@George I guess it’s just part of the job. Some days it’s slow, just waiting for the clock hand to move; other days it’s jumping off of skyscrapers to fight killer robot dinosaurs.
Say it with me, folks: “It’s a living!”.
@SquidRowMommy It’s one of those things that drive cartoonists nuts, but I’ll bet a box of donuts that no one reading noticed. So what if the damned thing is a foot or two longer?…well, that’s what I told myself before I went back and revised the page for the umpteenth time.
We are slaves to our craft, are we not? Now I need to go tweak the next installment…
From now on, whenever I sh*t my pants, I’m sayin “I just 5:50’d myself” o.O …much more polite! *smirk*
Is that the classic falling noise from the old cartoons made by that animator from california…dsny? Great that you included that sound effect!
That monster is more fearsome than MechaStreisand!
@jynksie Hey, nice idea, man! That’s catchy! I like it…but do you do it often enough to make much use of it?
@Paladin7 Yes indeedy, that is the ‘Goofy scream’! I’m pleased as punch that somebody noticed it.
I don’t know if “DAAAAH-HOO-HOO-HOOOEY!” is the best onomatopoeia for it, but it seems to work. Practice it at home for healthy lungs!
@Dan …but at least the Behemoth isn’t singing!
So she just happens to land next to the hatch, eh?
Well you can always go back and ‘fix’ your mistakes. That’s what I do, sometimes.
@InvaderZimFan Not only that, but she picked the doorlock with a hairpin! Jeraukov is one smart cookie.
@speearr While I’m not above revising my work constantly, I’ve never liked “fixing” comics once they’ve been published. It just seems kind of annoying to me for readers to see one thing the first moment, then have it completely redone on the second look. I figure, once it’s published it’s out there.
…unless if there’s a really, really big mistake. In which case I just curse myself, then white-out the booboo.
Aidan, you make a brontosaur(?) robot look friggin’ terrifying. It’s as if you’ve kidnapped my inner 7 year old for the day, and now she’s come back with Stockholm syndrome and an Alice Cooper shirt.
(I somehow feel the above could have been phrased more delicately, but I happen to have only had two hours of sleep last night.)
I’ve been reading your comic for about two years now, keep up the great work!
@DadaHyena: lol! good points. maybe you can post a notice saying you’ve updated a previously published page, and post a link to the old one as well for comparison. that’d be interesting. but yeah, I sometimes go back and fix up some of the art because the shortcuts I take to meet deadlines produce really substandard results… 🙁
@Natch Well, aren’t you the nicest person ever? Five points for the Stockholm reference and twenty for the Alice Cooper one (a shirt you can’t buy at Hot Topic, because they’re too flooded with Jonas Brothers and Nintendo merchandise).
Glad you enjoy the show, and remember that a white horse is only a horse when it’s trying to hit on another…horse…uh…damn it, I hate philosophy.
@speearr There’s no right or wrong way about it. It’s just something that I find a little irritating at times; in any case, artists are really free to do whatever they want with their creations (like wait twenty years, then redo it with CGI effects and violence/swear words removed!).
Oh yeah, digging the action scenes.
@MJ Thank ya, sir! More action to come.
Amazing stuff. Gritty, action-packed, funny as hell. Your work is like watching a familiar favourite old-time horror movie a few frames at a time. I tend to zoom in and check out the detail after I read it once for the story.
I hope everyone is buying your books! They are really beautifully done and a treasure to hoard away for rainy no-internet days.
@Jande Thank you so very much (see, folks? There ARE nice people on the Internet, amongst all the fourteen year-olds typing, “damn this shitz hella gay”).
I’m glad you’re finding so much to enjoy. That’s really the perk of doing a big comic; like the good ol’ days with the Sunday funnies, you tend to read it through once, then go back and admire the art for a while. It’s a happy memory and it’s awesome that others are enjoying it as well.
..and hey, gang! Jande bought the Scapula book! WHAT’S STOPPING YOU?! HEAD ON OVER TO THE STORE SECTION! NOW!!!
Ummm… I don’t suppose that will… ahhh… soften his landing much?! 🙂
If the beast has grown bigger, you can blame it on the illusions of forced perspective or something.
The action sequence is pretty neat.
@SpilledInky Probably not…it’s just going to make it a LOT more unpleasant to clean up!
@Binky I should have thought of that! Blame perspective! My old drawing nemesis! Grrr…I wish it would vanish like the little points that…well, that vanish!