leading from
a) The Alien Queen and alien warriors from Alien vs Predator #1 (published June 1990), pencilled by Phill Norwood and inked by inked by Karl Story
b) Darkseid holding a mother box as he tries working out the Anti-Life equation from Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 2 #62 (Published 1987) by Rick Veitch and Alfredo Alcala
c) Darkseid’s head is transformed into an alien beast or two. a slight touch of Arcimboldo there
d) His hand holding the mother box becomes the crouching alien beast
e) The vitrulian man symbol is transformed into an alien beast, while the bracket on
the right is transformed into its tail and the serpent above is transformed into the the teeth of the doorway
Brackets and plus sign transformed into an alien beast. The serpent is transformed into the teeth of the doorway.
f) Brackets and plus sign transformed into an alien beast. The serpent is transformed into the teeth of the doorway.
g) The spade symbol transformed into the alien queen's head while the Libra astrological symbol is transformed into the hood
h) This area becomes the area where the alien queen’s head is placed
Hello Dominik, long time no see.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't go where I thought you might with this. The DC comics panel made me think of the Giger 'heiroglyphics' panel on the wall over the egg chamber's 'altar.' It might be a little obvious, but I am, too.
I haven't seen you on Twitter/X but your blog page remains a great resource.
yes, well I’m trying to work out things to post here. it seems difficult when i find myself going along a different route of speculations that connects with nothing that people have thought about before
ReplyDeleteeverything in the interviews for Alien: Romulus has been hard to grasp because there doesn’t seem to be anything really that deep about the film that I can see yet that relates to any sort of secret ways of thinking , it’s a bit rubbery and no one that I know has much to say about it really, although I do like it possibly for the most banal reasons, perhaps almost as great Disney entertainment for children and the lead actress is very nice and pretty. much of the artwork seems to be digital constructs of different types, often 3D models, and not so easy to connect to other pieces of artwork. if there were more sketches and paintings, I might have more to say sooner.
It’s a shame that at this time there is nothing much to connect the Anti-Life Equation to the Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphics other than that would have been something to contribute. I’ve a couple more things to post about this Anti-Life Equation meets Alien, and perhaps I’ve still only touched the tip of the iceberg if there are further echoes amongst artists, but really it’s up to someone to come up with the Alien as the Anti-Life Equation tableau still in the general style of Giger for a film or comic book to bring it to a conclusion, although the mysterious Prometheus relief was a conclusion coming from one direction. Giger was doing his Anti-life Equation painting as an abstract biomechanic landscape, but he didn’t paint any clear images of it with the alien beast to make it ten times more attractive a property for people to think that they can make money out of in the Alien franchise by seeking his name.
if I had a go, it would just be considered a pointless piece of second rate fan-art
Oh, you mean, Cobb’s birth temple frieze in his illustration? Then that looks like a good example of something that could have contributed to the Alien Queen panel in the AVP illustration of the Queen and her aliens when I look at it
ReplyDeleteyes, and the tendrils sprouting out of the sides of Cobb’s design become the alien queen’s arms.
ReplyDeleteI’m certainly continuing wondering if there is a connection to be made with between Giger’s Life Cycle Hieroglyphics and his Anti-Life Equation inspired unfinished Biomechanic Landscape painting, but it’s hard when they haven’t shown a good photograph of it anywhere online
ReplyDeletejust had another realisation the other day that the comic book panel which showed the Anti-Life Equation on a display board with Darkseid’s head seen at the side from Swamp Thing, appears to have been partly inspired by a couple of panels from The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island, showing a mysterious ripped up note with a diagram of a triangle in parts on it, which gets assembled on the following page.
ReplyDeleteThis was also from the same part of the story which I think inspired O’Bannon to have the discovery of the space jockey connected with the discovery of the warning triangle scratched into his dashboard leading the explorers to discover the pyramid, with the discarded flight suit becoming the space jockey in this instance, (and later literally a flight suits form Prometheus). I don’t know if any of that will get closer to the actual Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphics themselves though, but there we go.