Nov 05
Ian Comments: We are the Guardians in Green Leaves. We’d chase you but we are rooted on the spot… on the ice…
Published 1987
Ian Comments: We are the Guardians in Green Leaves. We’d chase you but we are rooted on the spot… on the ice…
Published 1987
November 5th, 2012 at 8:40 am
That’s some halo the front one has. He must be like Supersaint — Megasaint.
November 5th, 2012 at 10:13 am
“Down in the valley of the Jolly Green Giant!” Here, he’s turned nasty, and so’s the wife.
November 5th, 2012 at 11:38 am
I wouldn’t have taken these creatures for mammals, but the lady’s boobies suggest that I am wrong.
November 5th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
With kudos to the South Park crab people.
Tree people. Tree people.
Taste like bark. Talk like people.
November 5th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
@Phil: I believe the botanical term is extrafloral nectaries.
November 5th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
I’ve actually read this book. Been trying to remember WTF the title was, and google for “book with plant people in it” just was not working.
And, there is a “sex” scene in it.
November 5th, 2012 at 5:30 pm
This is what happens when Ents learn metalworking.
(Yes, they walk! There’s footsteps… er, trunksteps… in the snow behind them.)
November 5th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
I embiggened the picture and it looks as if the foliage is a sort of leaf-anorak they wear over their brown scaly bodies. What exactly happened to Arcimboldo-guy’s left arm is a mystery. His wife thinks she’s Beyonce.
November 6th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Their only weakness was… hedge clippers!
November 6th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Yes, my name is Sun Drinker, and that’s my wife, Pea…um….Drinker.
November 6th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Searching for his long lost homeland, he found only the enemy… and a challenge that would destroy his race.. or free it!
QUEST FOR SPADES
November 6th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Searching for his long lost homeland, he found only the enemy… and a challenge that would destroy his race.. or free it!
DDT DRINKER
November 6th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Searching for his long lost homeland, he found only the enemy… and a challenge that would destroy his race.. or free it!
SPRING BREAK ENTS GO WILD
November 7th, 2012 at 2:54 am
I don’t know about all those leaves being clothing – their faces, hands, and forearms are all green and leafy.
Some of the leafy stuff does look to be clothes… which is actually kind of disturbing, since they look to be the same basic shape as their own leaves, and aren’t brown like they fell off on their own. Do the glowy-eyed forest idiots (who keep their leaves even in winter, despite being deciduous) strip the still-living branches off their defeated victims, transplanting them onto their own bodies for added warmth (!? [Goddammit, scifi, make sense for once]) and sugar production while training their growth with stitches?
November 7th, 2012 at 9:32 am
Good points, Jerk of all Trades. Clearly these creatures must be tree-based equivalents of Ed Gein, wearing the flesh of others of their kind as clothing.
November 11th, 2012 at 4:34 am
“It rubs the lotion on its leaves…”
November 13th, 2012 at 11:53 pm
The sword held by the male?(I dont see his stamen and refuse to look more closely for it) is a bit crooked. Otherwise a masterpiece.
November 19th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
I don’t know; the texture of their stems says “chicken leg” to me, not “bark”…
July 5th, 2015 at 5:45 pm
Skin: made of leaves.
Hair: made of leaves.
Clothing: also leaves.
Clothing fasteners: also leaves.
Dear artist, they’re plant people, WE GET IT ALREADY.
August 25th, 2015 at 4:09 am
What strikes me as particularly odd is that plant people don’t have any particular business on a glacier. If plant people were to go to a glacier, they’d probably end up several different kinds of dead.
July 17th, 2020 at 5:26 am
A plant person calling himself “sun drinker” is like a human calling himself “life eater.”
I guess plant guy lost an arm to a menacing cow or something and now it’s growing back?
@Anna T., wherever you may be: I don’t think that’s a glacier, there appear to be snow-covered trees in the background and also possibly the foreground?
July 17th, 2020 at 7:02 am
Half plant, half reptile, all stupid.
With that giant sun so close, how does the snow and ice even last?
July 17th, 2020 at 12:58 pm
The rope must have come from the hemp people.
July 17th, 2020 at 3:48 pm
Leafy armor, while incurring a penalty to Armor Class, gives a bonus to movement which is neutralized by having tree roots for feet.
July 17th, 2020 at 4:22 pm
You’d think they’d at least dress up as evergreens. Unless there’s a whole stash of deciduous leaves kept in (ahem) mint condition back at base their clothing would go brown and fall off by lunchtime.
July 17th, 2020 at 5:10 pm
@GSS ex-noob: I guess it’s another one of those covers taken through a zoom lens.
@fred: a much more relaxed bunch of plant people.
July 17th, 2020 at 10:42 pm
So if you eat one of these people, are you a vegan, an omnivore or a cannibal?
July 18th, 2020 at 12:12 am
@GSS xn: That’s not the sun, that’s an above view of a glass of Sunny Delight.
@Tor: If they taste like chicken, you have a problem.
July 18th, 2020 at 2:43 am
@THX: Of course! Now it (sort of) makes sense.
July 18th, 2020 at 6:22 am
Yes, but what is the role of the Purple Stuff in all this?
July 18th, 2020 at 6:37 pm
Green and purple being opposite colors, I can only imagine Purple Stuff is what the front plant person has the sword drawn against.