You think the Valkrie just wandered off to raise goats?

I wonder how many sanity points a furry would loose when faced with the terrors of the Mythos?

A door into the past? Or an alternate timeline? Or another dimension? You decide!

In the US, at least these days, the villain type most likely to carry any sort of series is the serial killer. They usually aren’t sophisticated sorts. Often they are inbred country folk, low in intelligence, freakish in appearance and hard to kill. If a killer isn’t a shunned outsider then he’s (and they’re almost always hes) generally insane.

I’ve been trying to encompass as many flavors of the “adventure” genre with my illustrations for the BRP Manual. One flavor that seems more popular in Europe than here in the States is the villain as protagonist represented by such fellows as Fantomas, Diabolik and Kriminal. Who doesn’t love a good villain?

I’ve just recently read Edgington and D’Israeli’s War of the Worlds trilogy (War of the Worlds, Scarlet Traces, Scarlet Traces: The Great Game – highly recommended!) so alien invaders are on my mind. Tripod war machines have burned themselves into my imagination since I was a kid and read John Christopher’s Tripod trilogy.

I have no idea what inspired this illustration.

Nope. Can’t think of anything. Must have come to me as divine inspiration.

Yup.

I love giant monsters. I’m less interested in giant robots. It’s not that I dislike them. I just have more of an affinity for the organic. Drawing machines takes more effort and thought for me than drawing trees and animals. So this drawing was more work than many of the others.

I doubt if my style looks anything like his but I have to credit Gil Kane for this one. Kane was the master of dynamic-punch-that-knocks-a-guy-across-the-room-and-into-your-face shot. Seeing that shot in dozens of comics while growing up burned it into my brain. The speed lines (that don’t really show up in this scan) come courtesy of all the manga that have come in recent years.