Jan 31
Click for larger imageRyan Comments: Weaponize the Otter People!
Published 1976
(Average: 6.30 out of 10)
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Ryan Comments: Weaponize the Otter People!
Published 1976
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January 31st, 2022 at 9:29 am
Obvious question. If they can fly, why are they walking?
Part of an Poul Anderson Ace Double double in an earlier publication.
https://www.amazon.com/Snows-Ganymede-War-Wing-Men/dp/B00HWM5DLK
January 31st, 2022 at 9:40 am
I love War Wing-Men in The Book of Boba Fett!
January 31st, 2022 at 11:15 am
“Damn, this golden breastplate is too heavy. I can’t get enough lift!”
January 31st, 2022 at 3:46 pm
How Belgian Waffles defeated the Otterman Empire.
January 31st, 2022 at 4:49 pm
The sort of cover that comes along once in a blue moon.
Considering how little it covers, what with the wings and all, that’s not a particularly useful shield/breastplate. Perhaps it’s an in-flight meal? (Probably better than your usual airline food).
@fred: the dude’s not walking, he’s doing a Stump Speech to inspire the otter Wing Men.
January 31st, 2022 at 6:05 pm
“Dammit, I’m going to spend the rest of the day joyfully sliding down a muddy hill into a lake if I have to kill all of you bastards!”
January 31st, 2022 at 7:21 pm
I see a quiver of arrows and the top half of a bow. What I don’t see:
A) How he keeps the arrows from falling out when he goes flying.
B) How he moves his arm without snapping the bow off
C) How he accesses the bow and gets it ready to fire in an emergency.
January 31st, 2022 at 7:24 pm
They can kill gators with their teeth, so why would an otter need a guisarme? (At least, it looks like a guisarme. Kind of hard to tell, though.)
January 31st, 2022 at 7:46 pm
He’s got the fasces on his belt.
He must be a Roman magistrate.
January 31st, 2022 at 10:58 pm
It looks like his head and hand have just regenerated after being lopped off.
January 31st, 2022 at 11:18 pm
Lions… with human arms… otter heads… and bat wings.
So beyond Centaur! that I don’t know. Kind of Gryphon! but also not.
JH Breslow must have been playing with his kid’s random interlocking toys the night before.
@fred: Birds have wings, and they walk too. But this guy’s giving his Henry V speech. The Ace cover was much better.
@Tor: I can’t even see a bow, so I have those questions and more.
@B’man: it was the lictors what carried the fasces, but when you can move in 3 dimensions, I guess that’s not practical. So his sticks and tiny tiny shield signify he’s the leader. And possibly also the fact he’s had his head gilded.
@FGK: It could be a fauchard, too — can’t tell, and I’m sure the artist didn’t know. The rank and file seem to only have spears, though the second from the left could possibly be a Hugo award (or 50’s hood ornament — same idea).
January 31st, 2022 at 11:40 pm
@GSSxn: The Wing-Man appears to have a quiver on his right hip. Above the quiver is a green, curving object that I took to be the top half of a bow.
February 1st, 2022 at 12:15 am
Hey, here’s a relative of this guy (minus the wings):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan#/media/File:Insignia-coatofarms-isfahan-province.png
@Tor: I was seeing the green thing there, as well as around his arm, as some kind of jewelry, or possibly rank marking. You know, he’s the leader dude, so he’s got the fancy arm jewelry.
February 1st, 2022 at 3:17 pm
I like his satchel.
February 2nd, 2022 at 3:50 am
@A-S: Maybe we’ve got it all wrong, maybe he’s just going shopping.
It looks like wickerwork, which makes a great tote bag and patio furniture, but isn’t quite as good used as a shield against big metal pointy things being flung at you by flying critters.
March 31st, 2022 at 4:41 am
Publisher with deadline looming: Sorry Poul, this was the only cover art we had on short notice that kinda looks like a man and has wings. We’ll do better for for that little “centaur people” story you’re working on, okay?
Poul: (sigh) Sure…