BONUS CONTENT: Sketchbook: Root Beetle
It’s funny how I can nail the look of a complicated piece of machinery like the Preegan gun in just a couple sketches, but then something like a beetle can take so many different attempts. Ugh. Anyway, the root beetles first appear on The Big Snow Job #1, Page 7 and it took a little while to settle on something I thought looked believably alien.
Most of the early sketch attempts looked a bit too similar to insects that actually exist in real life. Given the sheer wackiness of Mother Nature, I’m sure the beetle I finally settled on resembles something in real life too, but as of now, I’m not aware of it. It will probably be discovered in the depths of the Amazon some day. Or tomorrow in my pantry, at which point I’ll go hoarse from all the shrieking.
Note to self: the final beetle design would also look pretty cool as a space ship…
I have to say, I did like the way the root beetles looked alian like. (But I think I saw one crawl under my bed the other day) JK
Those are some great sketches.
Do they taste like chicken?
Nope, but still decent anyway…
Who Knows, maybe no one on the ship has tasted or even Seen a chicken.
Oh, and watch out, they squirt a bit.
Maybe they taste like bacon. Mmm…bacon. If that were the case, I’d probably have a few myself!
I read airholes as something else and was laughing for about 10 minutes before I realized what it actually said.