Friday Art Attack

Not sure what's going on here.  Castles, Nazis, zeppelins, space marines and lasers?  Sign me up, whatever it is.

DAGON!  Wasn't I just talking about him?  This is a slightly different take on him; but not really.

RAWR!  This is the most exciting arena I've ever seen.  Manly men, hot, scantily clad women, gorillas and dinosaurs.  What's not to like?

Speaking of dinosaurs, I want to live in this city.  It's beautiful, it looks Mediterranean in climate, so the weather is probably nice.  And it's got domesticated dinosaurs.

I'm not sure why, but this piece of art has a file-name of Ulysses.  There's something to be said for converting classic stories into space opera, I suppose.  Either way, that guy is about as manly as anyone in space has a right to be.

Although everybody loves a good animated skeleton or vampire or mummy, when undead really get scary is when they go to war as an army of the dead.

Given my exploration of Out of the Abyss, it's probably cool that I'm rediscovering the classic D&D demon lords.  I mean, I'm not really rediscovering them, because I never lost them, but I'm spending more time "with them" lately, so here's some art of Yeenoghu and his children.

Sometimes when robots go bad, they go really bad.  Then again, maybe he's actually saving that guy?  Doing some cybernetics to augment him?  I doubt it, but one never knows for sure.

Although admittedly kind of cartoonish, this isn't a bad reminder that the original Martians of War of the Worlds were weird, Lovecraftian critters.  Before Lovecraft.

What is this exactly?  Cyberpunk?  Or fantasy?  Power armored soldiers with lightsabers fighting demons in the ruins of Seoul?  Again; sign me up, whatever it is.

Pretty classic.  Sometimes you just need a werewolf.  Those abs, though.  What is this, a romance novel cover?

I've long been a fan of the Headless Horseman.  Washington Irving made a grave mistake, I think, when he made The Legend of Sleepy Hollow explainable instead of being an actual ghost story.  It's better as a ghost story than as the story of country boy hijinks.

Ouch!  Don't mess with the necrons!  Maybe he's got a grenade in his hand that he'll still blow up and go out in a blaze of glory?  It kind of looks like it.

A hot chick and her sabertooth pet.  What's not to like?

I have a fondness for this kind of art, where someone photoshops an improbably close planet filling the sky into another scene.  For whatever reason, I've seen tons of these kinds of pictures associated with trance mixes on Youtube.  Someone decided that cheesy space wallpapers means trance.  As a fan of both, I can't say that I'm complaining all that much, though.

I don't know that the yuan-ti are often associated with semi-Aztec visual cues, but why not, I suppose?

And after Yeenoghu, why not Zuggtmoy?  In my read-through of Out of the Abyss, I actually just read the chapter focused on her takover of a myconid colony.  The myconids, if you're going to have them, should be creepy and alien, not friendly and alien, so I'm a little... I dunno.  Not super pleased with the way it worked out, because the perverted, terrifying myconids should really kind of be what myconids are like anyway.  

Then again, I've always thought the notion of mushroom people and an evil mushroom goddess were kinda weird to begin with.