Magellan History | 7
xmung on Sept. 20, 2010
This is page #7, apologies for the numbering error in the art. At the time I was doing these pages it was all a bit rushed and I was clearly confused! Anyway, this update looks at some of the extraterrestials within the Magellanverse - and who better to bring it to you than Tros, who is also a member of Force Magellan. I'm a big believer in non humanoid type aliens… and here are some of them. The keen eyed amongst you will have noted there was also a little blue alien, like the one in panel 5, in amongst the faculty. I hope to cover some of these other aliens at some point - the pink spotty one for example cannot exist in an Earth type environment. Thanks for reading and the comments!
Ozmandious at 5:37AM, Sept. 27, 2010
I love the fact that you give a past to your world, something that makes the current world relevant; everyone isn't working in a vacuum, there is a reason for how/why the Island and the resident's came into being.
xmung at 5:20AM, Sept. 21, 2010
re the "a lot of good things" comment, that's a good point regarding the citizens of Russia. I imagine that Russia in the Magellanverse is substantially better off than the Russia in our own current reality - I did even factor in that there is a Russian colony on Mars (yet to be seen) so something must be working out for them. Another interesting alien concept is The Blob, in so much as that it's just a blob of jelly - quite believable really. I also liked the design of Speilberg's War of the Worlds three limbed aliens. @al, yes, I agree about the GLC... especially the one that is just a rock!
Abt_Nihil at 4:59AM, Sept. 21, 2010
Phew! I was *just* ten pages behind, but this was a LOT to read! Guess I'm lucky it's written so well! ;-) Swz'bng's saying that "a lot of good things" happened, and the first thing to mention that the Soviet Union collapsed - well, that's quite a BIT cynical, isn't it? Sure, it may have stopped the arms race, but the Russian people might not have been too happy about the WAY it ended. Not that I know much about the current state of the USSR in your continuity. Regarding aliens looking alien: The archetypal alien-looking alien has to be the Alien! (Er... yup.) H.R. Giger's design is pure genius. I'm not a big fan of humanoid-looking aliens either. Then again, it depends on what you take as "humanoid-looking", and my understanding of that is a bit more loose than most. Anything that has arms, legs and a head (no matter how many of these) would still look pretty humanoid to me. Something I find interesting is that other beings might not obey the law of symmetry, like most earthly creatures we are familar with do. In that sense, choosing a giant starfish as the JLA's first foe was a great decision too!
alschroeder at 3:24AM, Sept. 21, 2010
That's one of the things I liked about the Green Lantern Corps--many of its aliens were truly alien-looking, especially as originally done by Gil Kane.
AzuJOD at 1:26AM, Sept. 21, 2010
I also like it when aliens in a story are non-humanoid and cleverly designed, rather than just a human with a mask, or worse, when they look [b]exactly[/b] like humans!
xmung at 11:33PM, Sept. 20, 2010
yes, somehow I have 3 #5 pages and no #4 or #7 like I should! it was a dumb error I never got around to fixing. I was always annoyed that Star Trek (for example, although there are others that employ the same principles) couldn't have come up with some better looking aliens that didn't just look like humans with funny ears, noses, foreheads. The Ferrengi and Cardassians were fairly inventive but the Bajorans (and numerous others) were plain lazy and cheap. Their explanation of genetic seed dispersed amongst the galaxy was plain weak. Of course it's easier in a comic, one can draw anything and not have it cost a cent...
jamoecw at 11:18PM, Sept. 20, 2010
oops wrong code, shoulda used [url=http://www.drunkduck.com/Magellan/index.php?p=747981#tag_div]this[/url] instead of [quote=xmung]this.[/quote] joke is spoiled now.
jamoecw at 10:39PM, Sept. 20, 2010
most sci fi stuff just takes sea stuff and either remixes them or plops them down without visual changes, course it is hard to not do that, as sea stuff is weird and diverse. you do a better job at being unique than pretty much anyone i have seen though, so good job. P.S. did you notice there is a slight [quote=xmung]numbering error in the art[/quote], it should be [quote=xmung]page #7[/quote].