For those who were as appalled at yesterday’s anatomically bizarre comic book squid as I was, G. Tingey sent me a scan of a palate-cleansing, nicely done image from a Dan Dare comic book.
You can click on it to see the whole page (about 200K, though). That’s a much better drawn squid. It seems to be another example of the poor beast presumed to be a man-eater, though.
PZ, It is Ever So Obvious that you are an Agent of the Great Kraken, whose true duty is to keep us poor humans deceived about the ignoble role we play in the Food Farms of the Giant Squid of the Deep.
Oh, no, not me.
By the way, did you know that the noblest, most pleasant way to die is in the beak of a squid? They secrete euphorics that make the end extraordinarily ecstatic. Dive in, you won’t regret it!
I’ve heard you get a mind-blowing psychedelic experience by licking their ever so smooth and velvety mantles too!
do it! (you know you want to)
Dan’s so silly to try the flare gun. What he needs is a GIANT LEMON WEDGE! And maybe a dumptruck of tartar sauce.
This is quaint and all, but it really pales in comparison to Cthulhu Jenkins at http://www.stupidevilbastard.com
=)
Heat flares? Staring at the reader to show emotion? Bizarre and tacky to boot.
It isn’t that Archy is going to kill Lex on purpose, he doesn’t know his own strength. Archy just wants to give him a little cuddle. He doesn’t understand that his toothed suckers and razor sharp beak are bad for us.
Humans are just so squishy on the outside, crunchy on the inside, and squishy on the deep inside.
And Archy isn’t about to waste the body of his accidental prey. That wouldn’t be right.
As I said to PZ – this was drawn in about 1957.
When very, very little was known at all about Archituethis.
And, at the depth of sea that this is supposed to be happening (a LONG way down) surely an “Archie” would regard anything small and mobile as lunch?
Actually, all this action was incidental to the main plot, as an alien spaceraft had crashed into the deep water, and they were trying to get to it, to attch cables, to get it up before the surviving crew died……
In a later Dan Dare story Lex was revealed as a character that kept a Bible in his kit-bag.
Lex so totally had it coming, though. You didn’t know him.
And llewelly, when you say “you are an Agent of the Great Kraken, whose true duty is to keep us poor humans deceived about the ignoble role we play in the Food Farms of the Giant Squid of the Deep,” why do you say that as if it’s bad?
Frank Hampson was a meticulous draftsman; he built models or made costumes for reference. Often he put a gratuitous level of detail into his Dan Dare panels. It doesn’t surprise me that his squid is superior to other artists’ squids.
Here’s something cool: a 1956 newsreel tour of Hampson’s studio.