Volume 16 Page 30
Feb07
on February 7, 2014
at 5:58 am
As I said before: shiny stuff is incredibly hard to draw. I need to spend more time looking at Al Williamson’s old Flash Gordon comics. That man knew how to draw reflections. Of course, he operated primarily in black and white, and the question before me is to decide what layer of my art (the inks, the colors, the shading) I should use to create the appearance of a high-gloss surface like Ilander’s skin.
I thought that they weren’t technically demons till they started eating souls. Isn’t a plant that walks just in violation?
So is Ilander, like, a shiny T-Rex?
“I thought that they weren’t technically demons till they started eating souls. Isn’t a plant that walks just in violation?”
By the standards of Tamantha, anything with any ambition to elevate its state is a demon. Most sensible people don’t reason that way, but rules is rules.
“So is Ilander, like, a shiny T-Rex?”
No, that would be ridiculous. He’s a shiny utahraptor.
The serious answer: Ilander is a Baltoo Beccan, a race of telekinetic raptor-like creatures native to the sprawling desert lands of the Baltoo. They show up only very rarely in the narrative. You can see one on this page, just above (the first appearance of) Commodore Bezzer. Ilander is a particularly enormous example.
So is Lady Borax a ghost or what?
Also, her plotting and emotional outbursts play like she’s Gilgam in Vasgol.
Without their anchoring studs, Chuni are largely immaterial.
Schemer-type all teh way down. Given the whole ‘mask caste’ thing the Chuni got going for them, I can’t help but think that the mask she wears mooore or less equals ‘I like complicated plots and trickery!’, to put it simply…
Anyhow, gang versus oversized telekinetic raptor-thing? I give the battle to the raptor until Gilgam shoots it in the face!