An amusing little story about miscommunication in comic book art. Be sure to gander the linked pictures. :)
I had something similar happen with an artist friend. I said a character should be holding a "fire axe", thinking the implement firemen sometimes use to hack things open, and she sketched a bad ass battle-axe engulfed in magical flame. She laughed when I explained it, but I'm still looking for an excuse to have that cool flaming axe show up in the story...
"Aliens? Hell, I Been Drawin' Aliens for Years!"
Ironically, my first response was, "Hey, me neither." Although I'm not that deeply into comics. But I think I am vaguely aware of most of the better-known characters.
Then I did a Google image search for "Alien" and "Dark Horse" and then I realized: "Oh! He means the Aliens from the Aliens movies!" With "movies" being possibly a key word here.
"My intellect is gigantic, monstrous, terrifying."
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Or you could have looked at the final image for the cover. :)
But yup, Dark Horse had the comic franchise for Aliens and Predator and did a number of mini-series, including Aliens Vs. Predator and a slew of odd crossovers of both with superhero comics.
EDIT: I have to say the comic in question was fairly weak, but mostly because of the necessity of the premise. A high-power superhero team, including multiple characters who should be able to wipe out the Aliens single-handedly, along with a massive support staff including heavily armed security guards, have to get more or less killed off by the critters. Naturally, this ends up happening off-screen, with a sharply less powerful team coming in and managing to get in and out of the same situation (and rescue the few survivors) while almost as puzzled as the readers at the events.
"Aliens? Hell, I Been Drawin' Aliens for Years!"
Well, I did, eventually -- but I ran across that line above first.
Because I usually read articles and essays in "order." That is, I read the beginning first, then the middle, and finally the end, at the end. It's my whole "linear" thing. :)
EDIT: Okay, it may not have been clear: I was reading the item, ran across the thing about the "Alien franchise," got puzzled, opened up a new window, Googled, got the answer, then finished reading the original item and saw the final version ... maybe not so linear after all.
"My intellect is gigantic, monstrous, terrifying."
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Oh, misunderstood. I thought you missed the second image and googled after reading the article.
"Aliens? Hell, I Been Drawin' Aliens for Years!"
Okay, now we're on the same page. :)
"My intellect is gigantic, monstrous, terrifying."
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I was hoping that the aliens that had been drawn would have been illegal aliens. Or maybe Alien/Aliens aliens dressed up in sombreros and ponchos.
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There is a story that the actress who played the female Marine in Aliens went to the audition because she thought it was going to be about immigrant-type aliens. So she gets to the audition wearing this pretty dress with her makeup on, and sees all these grubby people in camouflage...but she says what the hell, goes for it, and gets the part. Supposedly true.
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Huh -- apparently that's true, JD! This is from the actress's bio from when she appeared at DragonCon:
"My intellect is gigantic, monstrous, terrifying."
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That's terribly amusing, JD. :)
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EDIT: edited for 3% more funny:
"They civilize left, They civilize right
Till nothing is left, Till nothing is right"
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Dead Elvis! Those are funny :>
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The egg with the sombrero is too damn funny. :-)
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If I had time, I'd totally 'shop one of those illegal immigrant crossing signs into a mama alien and some smaller aliens running across the road.
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Haha!
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At the risk of sobering things, those made me think of the 6-minute short Alive in Joburg Neill Blomkamp made a few years back.
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Eric, that video was great. Thanks for the link.
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Happy to pass that along, Danger. If you're interested, Google around for the guy; he's done some other neat shorts.
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Someone kind of beat you to it, although I bet you could do a better job:
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Oh, see, I was talkin' chestpopper Aliens a la Alien and Aliens rather than greys.
Again with the agreeing on the terms.
Here's the best I could do with flaky wifi (moved computer and its sucking right now, gotta figure out a fix) and limited motivation (and no actual photoshop, just ifranview and powerpoint).
"But if it makes you feel better, I would also enjoy a world in which there are men, women, transsexuals, genderqueer folk, etc. who all enjoy pelican role-play." - JD
"Extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional powers."
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Tancredo stomps out in the power loader.
"Stay away from our border, you bitch!"
Re: As an ex-Republican, I can say:
Republicans, I'm sorry I abandoned you -- that platform was just becoming too unstable.
"My intellect is gigantic, monstrous, terrifying."
Re: As an ex-Republican, I can say:
*snarfs*