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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Do you feel like I was too hard on religious folk (well, Christians, specifically) across the recent article?

Not at all, you simply stated facts, no worries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thank you mate, keep up the good work!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Looks good, would like to read!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Honestly, I have no idea. Watched the movie long ago when I was a kid, might even have been before I discovered Moebius. I do remember that I was pretty impressed by it though, especially the scene when they switch someone to breathing "liquid air", don´t remember much else except that it was a deep sea scenario though :)

 

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He has so many different styles, the deeper you dig the more of them you find. His Abyss concepts reminded me of the fine drawings of biologist Ernst Haeckel :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey all, hope you enjoy it!

 

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I really like the Druillet, the arrangement somehow gives me dead island vibes

One of the originals (third version) by Böcklin:

Interpretation by Giger:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Tragically, the same thing happened to my BD and Love & Rockets collections when I was unable to work and had to leave a group house I was living in at the time (mid 90’s). Naturally I meant to go back and get those, but life was too topsy-turvy for me, so it never happened. Part of why 99% of my comics collections are now digital, which does have the handy side-effect of making it easy to post high-quality excerpts here.

It's crazy how much personal stuff people loose during their lives, when moving or just borrowing them away and not getting them back. I like to imagine that there is a hidden subspace bubble somewhere in the time space continuum (like that weird floating house in the third season of Twin Peaks, just less scary), where all these lost things end up, neatly organized on shelves, sorted by former owner, year of production, cause of loss and so on, in an eternally existing kind of museum, ran by a species whose culture revolves around lost stuff that had significant personal value to it's former owner, because they are fascinated by emotional bonds and especially love for inanimate objects, which they perceive and (thanks to their unique cerebral structure) also receive, as the purest form of psycho-emotional energy in the universe.

Damn, I wish Jean Giraud was still alive and could make a comic based on this idea :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Don´t take it personal Johnny, it's not about you or your past efforts. Most people who are into hand made art simply dislike AI generated content in general and downvote it wherever they see it. So they are not downvoting you, they are downvoting AI generated content and one could argue that AI generated stuff is per se misplaced content in a community of BD nerds. Just compare with the upvotes and positive replies all your posts of hand made art always get. Btw There are several AI communities that love AI generated stuff and whould certainly upvote this post, so I think this is in the first place a "choose the right crowd" issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As I recall, the Paperino (Donald Duck) stories were always better than the Topolino (Mickey Mouse) ones.

Indeed! Mickey Mouse Stories were most of the time just classic crime stories with Mickey as the investigator, which simply gets old after a few times. Donald on the other hand is a bit like Homer Simpson, you just can´t help but feel his troubles and feel sympathy for the kind-hearted underdog, especially considering how he is treated by his billionaire uncle.

There’s nothing quite like a good Paperino freak-out authored in Italian

That must be even more funny! There is probably no better language for it!

Plus they came up with new characters like Paperinik.

In the german version his name is Phantomias. That name sounds like it was inspired by Fantômas, which is weird because Fantômas was, as you might know not a hero but on the contrary, the first supervillain in pop culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fant%C3%B4mas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They have been a huge thing in Germany too for decades now, called Lustige Taschenbücher aka LTB. I had a nice collection as a kid but it somehow got lost when I moved from Austria to Germany once more, just as my Asterix and Lucky Luke collections T_T

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I usually find these ‘side-by-sides’ not too terribly interesting

In this case a side by side was very justified. I enjoyed watching it, thanks for posting!

 

Metal Hurlant, the French SF/Fantasy magazine that inspired the US Heavy Metal, is coming back as a quarterly magazine, The Wrap reports. Humanoids will soon launch a Kickstarter to bring Metal Hurlant to the US as a quarterly anthology (...) Read the full article here.

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The mechanical training dummy in Dune always fascinated me. When I read Dune as a kid, the scene on Caladan in which Paul´s training dummy is described, very much defined Paul as a character for me. It made clear that he did not grow up like a normal child but instead lived under constant threat of being assassinated, always preparing to be ready and fight for his live to his best ability. Not much later, shortly after their arrival on Dune, the scene with the hunter seeker happens and confirms this impression.

I found these three designs for the dummy on https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Dune_Wiki

The left and middle image are pretty close to the design described in the book if I remember correctly. While the left image shows the dummy in action, with lots of different rotating, hacking and stabbing blades, the middle image shows the dummy in standby, with retracted blades. Both designs were made for the movie adaption by Lynch.

The right image is an alternative approach, deviating from the design described in the book but in a way that fits canon well in my opinion. Suspensors are common tech in the Dune universe, just think of the omnipresent glowglobes that light so many scenes in the story. Therefore, sticking a suspensorglobe into a traing dummy seems like a pretty obvious thing to do. The person standing next to the "Suspensor Drone" is Gurney Halleck. The art is by Mark Zug, created for the Dune Collectible Card Game by Last Unicorn Games.

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H.R. Giger, the famous creator of the Xenomorph in the science fiction classic ALIEN, was also part of the all star team that worked on Jodo's Dune. The enclosed design of the castle fits perfectly with the description of Harko City in the books, which is probably just a happy coincidence. The elongated back of the head is an obvious resemblance to the aforementioned Xenomorph.

 
 
 
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As you might have guessed, the unnamed character in the middle is Thufir Hawatt. Open in new tab for bigger image.

 

Since the thread got upvotes by the majority but only comments from a few party poopers who were obviously not appreciating me sharing this great find with you all, I decided to lock it. I just don´t have the nerve for that kind of shit today.

Hej hej, fellow comic art enthusiasts! I am quite excited to show to you what I just found. While searching for a good digital copy of Jodorowsky´s legendary Dune script, I stumbled upon this incredible analysis of the script, made by the fine people of www.duneinfo.com. It seems to contain the full or at least a big part of the script (in varying image quality) and does a great job at summarizing Jodo´s version of the story en détail. The article presents an insight into this mystical project, which I and probably many of you, have never had before, enjoy! www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowskys-dune-uncovered

I will keep posting selected images from the script, in the future. Here´s an example:

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