Alien: Stage III alien, 1st Design (side view II first state) (1978) by HR Giger

leading from

Concept art for the stage III Alien

 

a) This design comes as an intermediate between Alien III Side view 1 which we still only have a low resolution image of.

 

We might assume that it came later.

 

Here, the  tongue resembles a leech with a corkscrew drill at the end.

Alien III (Side view II, first state) (Source "Giger" by HR Giger, Taschen)

 

 

 

 

b) See: Alien: Alien III (Side view II, first state) by HR Giger references panel showing the hallucination of a Pharoah reaching down to Tintin from "The Adventures of Tintin and The Cigars of the Pharaoh" by Hergé, as published in La Petit Vingtieme #4, January 1933 ? 

 

 

c) See: Alien: Stage III alien, 2nd Design early stage (side view) (1978) by HR Giger references "waldo-like" repair machine Chris Foss for Alien?   

 

 

 

d) See also: Alien: "Waldo-like" repair vehicle by Chris Foss references panels from a page from Les Adventures de Tintin: Les Cigars du Pharaon published in Le Petit Vingtième no.4, p9, January 1933, by Hergé?

 

 

 

e) See: References photograph of JG Ballard from the Radio Times, advertising the BBC program Omnibus that was televised on the 13th December 1973?