There’s always a balance to be stuck in showing monsters and using Lovecraft’s technique, to just show the reaction. I may have overstepped the balance, but man. That pod elephant monster was fun.
Shirt orders will go in on the 21st and will be sent out within two weeks! I’ll have them back up in the store as soon as I get them, just in case you missed the preorder.
TWC incentive is a comic that I made while in Costa Rica. Looks like the site’s down, so whenever it gets back up again.
Wait .. did the baby just get taken??!! NO!!
Well, it’s the Mythos. Bad Things Happen.
The real question facing the child is, of course, whether Our Noble Narrator here is Original Lovecraftian, or Orthodox Post-Derleth Reformed Lovecraftian. If it’s the former, the kid may have a chance.
May.
welll, she did say be quiet.
That’ll learn ‘im.
So true. I’m thinking of showing this to children as a warning.
I foresee only positive repercussions from this idea.
You better listen or the shoggoth will get you!
Jesus Christ… I mean …. Jesus… This is the closest I’ve even come to being disturbed trying to imagine what I’m looking at in a long time. Every time I think I’ve seen all there is, I find a few more details that make me realize there is so much more there, every time I think I found the last monster, there’s a new one that I just noticed. Like the red glowing… wuzzait inside the blue entity, as I’m looking at it to figure out what it is, my eyes get drawn towards another creature on it’s back.
The style used nails the idea HP was trying to get across with the utterly alien appearance of the beasts. I am really glad you stuck with this shading style for the beasts, it works fantastic for them.
Aw, thank you. :B I imagine it’s similar to the Surinam Toad, and that its babies will eventually pop out through holes in the back where the pods previously were. It’s kinda horrifying, if you think about it.
Why does my back itch all of a sudden? Thank you for that link, I’ve heard of Pipa Pipas/Surinams, but never actually saw a video of them hatching.
Now I’m going to be pondering the size of blue’s larva when they come out for the rest of the night.
twitch. Thanks for that, I am definitely going to use something like that in my tabletop game
Ugh God why did I watch that video?
An amazingly page…wonderfully horrific! Elephant-thulhu there is the last person you want to see traipsing around in your home. But I wonder…are the people closing their eyes because this somehow protects them (or they believe it protects them), or simply to avoid being driven insane from the classic Call of Cthulhu sanity-loss mechanism?
My guess: it’s a bit of both.
A large part of why people go insane (at least in Lovecraftian tales) is because when they see the monsters, they cannot comprehend a new dimension of reality.
So, in theory, if they close their eyes, they won’t take the full sanity hit. You can imagine there’s some crazy sounds happening, though.
I like the monster. I don’t like all shown monsters, I’m in the “Lucas should have kept the wampa hidden” crowd, but this was a good one.
Very nice.
Unfortunately, I have the “I want my baby back baby back baby back ribs…” going through my head now.
Man. Now I’m hungry.
Excellent.
Ability to project subliminal messages via web postings progressing nicely.
Love it. And I still want plushies! Maybe the eyeball-monkey-tiger…thing… in the bottom left?
Because my children should have toys that require San checks.
i vote for monkey eyeball beast plushies!
Weren’t those spider monkey things in Pieta’s nightmare?