Friday Art Attack

I haven't done a Friday Art Attack the last two Fridays, so I better not miss a third.

I'm not quite sure what his is, but I find it really evocative and creepy.  I like it.

An older Warhammer Vampire Counts army book cover.  I do sometimes wish that Warhammer wasn't so focused on armies, but it is, after all, Warhammer, and I don't think that that was really meant to just be evocative of the specific weapon.

Here's a Ken Kelly (I believe) fake Frazetta style cover art piece.  Nice work, Ken!

Some more Conan stuff, from the comics world.

Another great Michael Whelan book cover, based on a mediocre (if you're generous) work by Asimov.  I suppose Foundation is... important, in its way.  But it's not good.  Asimov, along with Campbell and a few others (L. Sprague de Camp and Michael Moorcock were purveyors of this travesty too) got caught up in the excitement of speculative fiction as a genre, and then made it nerdy, self-righteous and emasculated.  On purpose, even.  Even when they were writing stuff that has some merit, I still despise them and everything that they stood for.

On the other hand, here's some stuff from the real Golden Age of science fiction.  I don't even know what this is, but I already suspect that it's a better story than Foundation.

Wayne Reynolds is a modern day artist I quite like. Sadly, the material he's given to work with is often subpar.  Why in the world in a market who's consumers are overwhelmingly white males would the blatant tokenism and discrimination against white males in terms of their heroic "iconic characters" even be considered a good thing?

Oh, right, because we live in Clown World, and Paizo is made up of virtue-signaling traitors who hate their own people and their own customers.

I'm not 100% sure what's going on here, but these Fake Egyptian undead fighting these fake Orientalist heroes is kinda cool.

Another of the monstrously ugly and unlikeable iconic characters from Paizo in a work that would be excellent with a better subject.  I actually find the demon more charismatic, myself.

Adrian Smith's dark fantasy stuff is really cool.  This is what the Frankenstein monster should look like.

So there you go.  In DH5, this is the flesh golem.  Wham!

I'm not quite sure what's going on here either.  This is probably a little too much gratuitous exotica to make any sense.

One of the actually kind of interesting Paizo iconic characters, although it's essentially just "Zorro except in the Fake French Revolution country instead of Spanish colonial California."

Another great Wayne Reynolds Paizo piece, with the iconic villain of their second adventure path.

I think those little girl guards are kind of silly, though.

I'm also not quite sure what is happening here; maybe this is an illustration of Call of Cthulhu (the actual short story, not the game.)  Whatever; gratuitous Lovecraftiana is never unwelcome here.