Category Archives: sentient 39

Dunak

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In seventh grade English class we had 15 minutes of free reading each period. Since I read all the time on my own anyway I wanted to do something different. I asked if I could spend those 15 minutes writing a science fiction novel. I got down 167 pages before the end of the year. I’m sure I’ve got the manuscript in a box somewhere. I’m pretty sure that there’s little salvageable in it except for Dunak and his intelligent ship.

Dunak was a blue furred creature out exploring the galaxy. I’ve redesigned him a few times since seventh grade but he always looks basically cute.

The goofy looking thing on the left is not related to Dunak. He/she/it is an inhabitant of a world that looks like it was designed by Dr. Suess. As interpreted by me since no one draws like Dr. Suess.

Burrabbs and Such

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We’ll see George again, probably quite a few times. I finished another series of illustrations of the character in February.

For now, here are a couple of burrabb. And a k!lang warrior. That’s the guy with the beard. The k!lang run one of the space faring empires in the Sentient 39 universe. Or rather, they think they run it. Like most ruling classes they both run their world and are run by it.

Got To Dance Now

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I’m not sure when this piece was done. I’m guessing it was 2004 or 2005. I found the image back in some old files on my art computer. I forgot to check the date on it before I moved it onto my storage drive. Anyway, dancing burrabbs. Could be dancing as a religious rite, could be dancing for tea. Nobody tells me anything.

The Gardeners

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In the movie The Thing from Another World the alien invader turns out to be a mobile plant that feeds on blood. While playing with a redesign of the creature I started to wonder what sort of civilization a mobile plant would come up with. Frankly, I was stumped. A plant civilization is going to have a whole different set of wants from an animal one.

After a bit of thinking it occurred to me that just because the Thing was a plant didn’t necessarily mean that it came from a civilization of plants. It could have been the equivalent of a guard dog or a helper monkey. The ship it arrived in is destroyed. The Thing can’t (or won’t) communicate. The men who find it only assume it is the ship’s pilot.

So then I started thinking about what sort of culture would create plants to act as soldiers and servants. And I wondered what other sorts of plant creatures might they create? (And which b-movie monsters could I reimagine as plant monsters?.)

Human

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The world that this version of Mara lives in is one with multiple human species. None of the species represent humanity at its best. Neither is one species an avatar of human evil. Even angels and demons are more complicated than that.

The Forest Brothers – The Good Brother

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Of the kaiju I considered “borrowing” for King Roach the Gargantuas are the only ones I thought of a King Roach specific story for. In their movie they were brothers (sort of). One was brown and “good” (he just hung out in the forest by himself) and the other was green and “bad” (he came to the city and ate people).

This is the good brother. If he were in color he would be brown.

Kinda Sorta Varan

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I have not seen Varan. I think it’s available on DVD but I really only spend 5 or 6 hours a week watching movies and then it’s almost always with Nizzibet. She fails to appreciate the glory of giant monsters stomping on tiny cities. When I did this drawing in 2003 Youtube didn’t exist either. These days if I need to see a monster in action I can usually locate some footage there. So this is a version of Varan for the King Roach series that, like the version of Anguirus earlier this month, I’d likely never actually use in the King Mantis series.