You probably can’t really tell, but Meeka is a three-legged dog, with two legs in front and one in back. I just thought that would be a cool design for an alien dog. Well, that and the four ears and blue fur (not that you can tell the color from the washed-out effect).
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Ooo, its a buncha miniture peliechicken … asaur es…
They dont taste like chicken neither <.<
I thought Meeka had lost a leg. In the first panel of this one and the last panel of the last, the fur direction makes it look like Meeka is not missing her right, rear leg instead of being a tripodic pooch.
Err… is not a tripodic pooch but rather missing her right, rear leg.
So that’s why the bird analogs have no rudimentary wings – they are walking on their arms. [I’m kidding of course, no (close) relation to the dog analog: they have four eyes vs his two.]
I like the cacti analogs in the first frame, they bring home the message of a harsh climate.
D’oh! “Arms” – forelegs. Too much anthropomorphizing there.
The alien critters are fun, but I do wonder why humans seem to be the only representatives of the Terran biosphere that has made it into space.
Because we’re awesome and all other life on Earth was being kind of a dick the day when we were boarding the space-arks…
Yeah, suck it, other creatures! Humans rule!!
Actually, in the RUNNERS universe, the human-looking characters aren’t necessarily supposed to be Earth “humans.” I figured it would be nice to have a few human-looking characters in the series but didn’t want Earth and our solar system and history to really play a part in the story. I guess for RUNNERS, I like the whole Star Wars angle of it being a totally different galaxy that does not fit into our history and “geography,” as opposed to Star Trek, which is very much about the future of our civilization.
IMO it comes to the same thing in the end. You’ve got humans, or perfect human look-alikes, so why not cats and rats and elephants? Or perfect cat, rat, and elephant look-alikes. It’s not a big deal, but it is a vague irritant. Just as with fantasy worlds whare everything is different… EXCEPT the humans.