In which a group of jocks learn the hard lesson – don’t pick on freaky kids with poor social skills, they might gain the ability to turn into giant monsters and come beat your ass.
Author Archives: skook
King Roach vs Saur Thirteen
While the basic premise of King Roach (kid becomes monster to fight other monsters) has remained the same since the first inspiration, the setting of the series has shifted many times. Sometimes I’ve imagined the story taking place in modern day Seattle. Sometimes it happens in a 1950’s milieu. Sometimes I imagine King Roach as a guide to the Sentient 39 universe; traveling from world to world, dealing with strange human cultures and stranger alien ones. And fighting monsters of course.
The other creature in this sketch is Saur Thirteen, one of those military experiments gone wrong. Saur Thirteen has skulked around my imagination for a couple of decades now. Sometimes he’s a mindless beserker. Sometimes he’s highly intelligent, a reptilian secret agent/soldier. In this version he’s been tamed by a teenage girl and is acting as the protector of a group of outcasts.
Crawling Chaos
Nyarlathotep is one of H.P. Lovecraft’s more active creations. He (she, it) has a multitude of avatars. He gets involved with humanity. He pays attention to what we do. He plays with us. The rest of the Great Old Ones take as much notice of us as we do of ants.
The finished version of this is in my Epilogue gallery.
Witchcraft
This sketch is based on an illustration I did years earlier of a levitating witch. The witch in the earlier illustration was clothed in flowing robes.
Daylight Caravan
When I was a kid I did an illustration of a camp of lizard people, their tents and their pack animals. I rendered it in colored markers and my mom liked it so much she had it framed.
In 2002, when I was thinking of scenes for the Sentient 39 series I thought I’d revisit the lizard people. This sketch is the result.
Wirepriest After
All finished in Photoshop. Rejected by Epilogue.net.
Wirepriest Before
The Wirepriests revere the connection, worship the flow – of information, of electricity, of power. They seek to contain it and to send it out. They don’t convert others to their religion, there’s no evangelism, they wire you in whether you’re interested or not. And then they go looking for the next connection.
Tomorrow I’ll present the finished version of this sketch.
Watching the Bats at Moonrise
Every picture tells a story, so it’s been said. I’ll leave it to you to figure out what the story is.
Mascot
This sketch was an attempt to create a mascot for the Sentient 39 illustrations series. It didn’t need a mascot but mascots are fun. And evil and disgusting. This one didn’t have quite the mix that I wanted.
Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
