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Kids growing up in the 80's had plenty of anthropomorphic superheroes to choose from thanks to the immense popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There were the Street Sharks, Biker Mice from Mars, Extreme Dinosaurs, the Cy-Boars (how the hell did I miss drawing those guys during my 365 Cyborgs?) and of course the Snailiens.

I had a couple of the Snailien toys and if I can recall correctly they were a team of little alien snail men who crash landed on Earth along with some enemy aliens (the Lunarticks) in a similar situation to the Transformers. The four snailiens took their names from the pieces of coin currency, Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln. I bet if they were popular enough a female Sacagawea would have shown up at some point.

Pfhor Score

The Marathon Series was an early FPS created by Bungie. It introduced a full 'free look' system, allowing players to control the players view/aim with the mouse. Most people are unaware of Marathon and its influential gameplay due to the fact that it started life on the Mac.

Another interesting factor of Marathon was its fairly engaging narrative, involving evil aliens and computers that have lost their virtual marbles. It also has many similarities to Bungie's best known game; Halo. Many people view Halo as a kind of quasi remake or prequel/sequel to Marathon.

This is a Pfhor Enforcer, fairly deadly but if you manage to kill them you are able to use their gun.

Prot

K-Pax is about Kevin Spacey maybe being an alien. I always thought K-Pax was his name but turns out that's the name of the plant Spacey is from.

I never saw the movie but I remember him eating a banana, peel and all, in the trailer. Aliens are so crazy.

Schnoz

Anyone else remember growing up in a time when you could rent a videogame with your allowance money, have a blast getting through a good chunk of the game, and then save your progress when it was time to take the game back. Then once you got a chance to rent the game again you realized some other kid saved over your file. I'm guessing most kids these days will never experience this now that most games get saved on memory cards or hard drives instead of on the game cartridge itself.

I remember renting Earthbound for the Super Nintendo at least 3 different times only to have my save file lost. Usually it stinks having to go through the same parts of a game over and over but I really enjoyed Earthbound's quirky style and fun story.
This fella is Mr. Saturn, not sure how they fit into the story though. Pretty sure I never made it that far but I could be wrong. I do know them from the Super Smash Bros. series though. My friends lovingly referred to them as dick slaps, probably due to their similar appearance to our friend Dick.

Weirdos

I can't say enough good things about Bill Watterson's work on Calvin & Hobbes. His work has only grown on me more as I've gotten older. He's a fantastic draftsman and wonderful storyteller. I kind of view him as the J.D. Salinger of comics. He had a relatively short but immensely successful career only to become a bit of a recluse. Calvin & Hobbes only ran for 10 years

This is the martian from when Calvin & Hobbes flew into space after becoming disenchanted with the Earth.

Oh, I hate the Calvin peeing on things stickers. I hope anybody who has one of those on their truck gets struck down by an awesome T-Rex.

Koriand'r

I was originally going to draw Marvel comics Medusa today. Then I realized that Medusa is an inhuman not an alien. So instead of scrap the start of my drawing I decided to rework the piece into another comic book heroine with a penchant for purple and a shock of red hair.

Starfire is from DC comics and luckily for me is an alien from the planet Tamaran. I think her super powers involve flight, energy blasts, and flirting with Dick Grayson. I couldn't bring myself to draw Starfire in her classic costume, far too cheezy.

Four Lights

At first I was going to talk about the Cardassians from Star Trek. Maybe make a couple references to some of my favorite episodes with them.

But then I realized I could post the Picard Song video instead. Sure a Cardassian only makes a brief appearance but frankly more people need to hear this song.

X

I loved that X-Files when I was a kid. The goofy monsters of the week episodes got me into the show but the loose overarching narrative got me hooked. I think as the show went on the big story got a little sloppy but the show does have a couple great episodes/seasons.

I don't really remember much about this guy except he was awesome. He was some sort of alien Terminator,  big, unrelenting , and almost invincible. This guy has actually been in a lot of stuff but I always remember him as his X-Files role.

Evil Weevil

The last few aliens have been pretty cutesy and lighthearted so I decided to work on a big jerk today. Originally I was gonna do another Doctor Who alien, hopefully doing a better job this time too. After some poking around I instead decided to do an alien from the Dr. Who spin-off show Torchwood.

Torchwood is kind of like a British Men In Black. A secret agency who deal with alien threats. The Weevil is one of the first aliens introduced in the series. They live in the sewers and eat poo which tends to make them fairly ornery.

Wrencher & Clunk

It seemed like animals with 'tude used to be all the rage for a couple of years. From the peak of Sonic the Hedgehog to the horrible lows of Poochie. The Ratchet and Clank series came out quite a while afterward and made a couple tweaks to the idea.

Orb

The idea behind the Wario Ware games is really interesting. In a time when so many games are pushing the limits of what they can do with a huge cinematic narratives Wario Ware goes in the complete opposite direction. The game is actually a collection of a huge amount of micro games. Simple games that last just a few seconds. Part of the challenge is figuring out just what to do before the player is whisked off to the next little game.

Each collection of micro games has a host of sort, and Orbulon here is one of them. Wario Ware doesn't really focus on story so not sure what his deal is. My guess is he's a kooky alien who likes fun?

Alien Harem

One of the more popular genre of anime/manga is the idea of a harem. Often there is one male or female surrounded by a gaggle of members of the opposite sex who for some goofy reason end up living together. This often results in some weird love octagon, the most romantic shape in all of geometry. Imagine if the the cast of F·R·I·E·N·D·S· were all ladies except for Ross, then for some reason everybody was in love with Schwimmer. You get a rough idea of how these shows would play out.

One of the more popular harem series is Tenchi Muyo, which is made up of several different series, oavs, and movies. The protagonist Tenchi Masaki is a descendant of a space royalty which lets him wield a Japanese light saber. He ends up being the epicenter of several different ladies affection.
Featured here is Ryoko (which translates to bringer of demons) who fills the role of the aggressive troublemaker in the series.

Utinni

Jawas are some of my favorite aliens in Star Wars, I think it's the Utinni and their short stature that win me over. Jawa are technology scavengers with a penchant for bamboozling their customers.

I wonder how many of these little guys I could take down. They wouldn't have blasters or anything just their piercing glowing eyes. I figure I could take out at least 6 before they brought me down.

Since my name is Luke people always make jokes and references to Star Wars. Strangers upon finding out what my name is feel a strange urge to say "Luke, I am your father" even though that's not even the right quote. Curse you Lucas!!!

The Shining

I've only seen one of the Riddick movies, the Chronicles of Riddick. Supposedly Pitch Black is pretty good but not sure if I'll ever get around to seeing it. The old xbox game was pretty fun though. Riddick is a pretty standard Vin Diesel character. Tough, beefy guy, who likes to punch stuff. When I first heard about Vin Diesel he actually sounded like an interesting guy. He popped up in Saving Private Ryan and I heard and interview with him where he sounded like a normal guy who was hoping to make good movies. Needless to say it turned out he's kind of a meathead.

Totally Radd

There is a being in the Marvel Comics universe named Galactus. He is one of the most powerful figures in the universe. One day Galactus came to the planet Zenn-La to consume it for energy. An astronomer name Norrin Radd convinced Galactus to spare his planet and in return he would become his herald. He would search for planets that would feed Galactus and provide notice to any sentient life of the coming destruction.

Galactus bestowed the power cosmic (which would be an awesome band name) upon Norrin and he became the Silver Surfer.

Well, enough of my rabble. If you want to watch Richard Gere talking about the Silver Surfer check out this clip.