Alien: Panel from The Eternals # 6 (December 1976) by Jack Kirby where a gun is transformed by the character Sersi into tentacles that wrap around a Deviant's face referenced in HR Giger's Face hugger design?

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Panels The Eternals # 6 (December 1976) by Jack Kirby

a) In issue 6 of Jack Kirby's The Eternals # 6 released in 1976, we find that the barrel of a gun is transformed by the character Sersi into tentacles that wrap around a Deviant's face.

Full page from The Eternals # 6 (December 1976) by Jack Kirby

b) The character Sersi, one of the Eternals, would be connected with Circe, an enchanteress who was able by means of drugs and incantations to change humans into wolves, lions, and swine, and can be read about in Homer's Odyssey, encountered living on the island of Aeaea

work 365a, Giger's Facehugger sketch. (Giger's Alien, p10)

c) HR Giger's work suggests that he had been following Jack Kirby's work. When he came to design a Facehugger for Dan O'Bannon in 1977, I think he found inspiration in this panel with the gun barrell turning into fingers and so I think that he developed this into an early face hugger creature with long figures wrapping around the victim's face which would be carried over into the final design.


Perhaps the idea of magic being used to turn a gun turning into threatening organic tentacles was something in tune with Giger's biomechanics concept.

See also Alien: Giger's Early Facehugger Concepts