Alien: Gorilla with bandaged arm image from Tintin And The Black Island is referenced in Ron Cobb's painting of the Alien?

Leading from:
Alien by way of Tintin  
and
Alien: Ron Cobb's birth temple
 

a) Realisation on 29th August 2017: In the story, a myth about a man eating beast dwells on the black island and it turns out to be an ape that the criminals use to protect the castle where their money forging is taking place.

b) This beast that runs around the corridors of the castle becomes one of the early points of reference for Dan O'Bannon's Alien and for Ron Cobb to use as visual reference from one illustration reversed in his illustration to sell Dan O'Bannon's script.

comic book image reversed with Ron Cobb painting below

c) The tied together ends of the sling become the alien's raised claw.
The right part of the sling becomes the two antennae.
The right part become becomes the raised left arm. 
The speech window becomes a window behind the creature.

d) Milou/Snowy the dog become the far left leg, while the apes legs with the bent knees become the other visible legs.

e) Either one of Thompson and  Thomson become the crew member seen from behind.

Alien: Birth Temple references money printing room in "Adventures of Tintin and The Black Island" ?

Leading from:
Alien: Development by way of Tintin
and 
Ron Cobb's birth temple

a) 28th August 2017: Another leap of realisation about ideas for Alien inspired by "Adventures of Tintin and The Black Island" (original publication 1938)

The story leads to a printing down in the bottom of the castle of the Black Island.

When Dan O'Bannon wrote Alien, it's as if the printing press became the alter in his birth temple and the sheets of freshly printed money have turned into the spore pods. 

The story leads to a printing machine down in the bottom of the castle of the Black Island.

When Dan O'Bannon wrote Alien, it's as if the printing press became the alter in his birth temple and the sheets of freshly printed money have turned into the spore pods.

b) Ron Cobb's Birth temple concept for Alien (1977). 

Did the circular ventilation grill in the printing room in the Tintin story become the ovoid spore on the wall of the birth temple?

Ron Cobb's birth temple.
A human explores a primitive angular tomb like chamber,
loosely with a Mayan or Aztec look to it.

Alien Covenant: Traces of "Before The Watchman: Ozymandias"?

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Alien: Covenant

a) On the 20th of September 2017,  name Jae came through, might as well have been another one of these messages from across the galaxy, never heard of him.

Ozymandias as a boy before the bust of Alexander The Great in "Before The Watchman: Ozymandias"

A replica of Michaelangelo's sculpture of David in
in Alien: Covenant

David the android before a replica of Michaelangelo's sculpture of David in
in Alien: Covenant

b) But looking up the name, there's an artist Jae Lee who illustrated a Before The Watchmen comic book story about the character Ozymandias from The Watchmen (which isn't a comic book series I'm interested in) looking back over his life to where he was now, and perhaps there are similarities between him and the character David who was waffling Ozymandias lines in the Alien Covenant film. 

Ozymandias resurrecting the long dead bearers of ancient secrets "Before The Watchman: Ozymandias"

David walking amongst the mummified corpses in Alien: Covenant

The mummified corpse in Alien: Covenant

c) While David is obsessed about Lawrence of Arabia, the man who becomes the superhero Ozymandias is obsessed with following in the footsteps of Alexander The Great. 

Both characters are hyper intelligent and involved in resurrecting ancient knowledge. 

Ozymandias' trophy room from "Before The Watchman: Ozymandias"

Hall of heads in Alien: Covenant

d) The Ozymandias story features scenes with the character amongst ancient giant statues and head sculptures in museum scenes etc, while David found himself living in a city full of giant head sculptures. 

Meanwhile the original poem Ozymandias by Shelley speaks about a traveller who speaks of a giant broken statue in the desert, so there isn't much wonder that the character should be connected with statues, but perhaps the comic book story helped to bind ideas together.

The dead city centre in Alien: Covenant

The Dead City Centre

The Covenant's loading ship about to crash into the neck of a giant statue

Ozymandias and his pet cat on hand of giant statue from "Before The Watchman: Ozymandias"

"Deposition from the Cross" (1600-1604) by Caravaggio

"Deposition from the Cross" (1600-1604) by Caravaggio

a) HR Giger: Necronom II references "Deposition from the Cross" (1600-1604) by Caravaggio ?

b) Moebius : Starwatcher drawing (1987) references Deposition from the Cross (1600-1604) by Caravaggio ?

 

Face sculpture in the Martian sand of "Rocketship X-M" (1950)

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Face on Mars

In the film "Rocketship X-M" made in 1950, Earth explorers visit Mars and amongst the things that they discover a sculptural head half buried in the sand. 

For more about this film read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship_X-M

(Thanks to Mean Green for posting information about this film on Facebook on August 19th 2017) 

Alien Covenant: Moebius inspiration behind landing craft scenes?

leading from

Alien: Covenant
and
Jean Giraud / Moebius

a) In 2016, a collected volume of Moebius' World of Edena was published, but the stories have been published in French for some years before, and this part of the story was originally illustrated in 1993

Covenant's landing shuttle

Moebius' World of Edena, p248

b) Part of the story involves a flat shuttle taking off and travelling across a rocky landscape.

Alien Covenant featured two medium sized landing crafts in the story that are generally flat structures. The comparison is perhaps nothing much to note because the vehicle that Moebius drew was so basic that a child could make a model of one out of cardboard, but I presume that it was a starting point.

One of the vehicles in Alien Covenant was a landing shuttle for carrying passengers to the surface along with various gear to assist with their exploration inside for their first landing on the planet, while the other was a loading ship that was generallya flying platform with crane and a flight cabin in the corner, serving in the film as a rescue craft and is used in a fight scene with the alien "Xenomorph".

Moebius' World of Edena p250

Landing platform with crane

c) Moebius was an influence once again in the film and questions about what ideas were used and where might be questions to ask.

In Edena, the shuttle hits a pinnacle of a rock formation knocking off the top and suddenly falls out of control much like the loading ship in Alien Covenant hits a giant statue and knocks the head off, suddenly diving out of control about to crash into the ground.

Moebius' World of Edena, p251

Loading ship crashed into giant statue in Alien Covenant

Loading ship knocks the head off the giant statue in Alien Covenant

Moebius' World of Edena, p252

d) In The World of Edena, the shuttle almost crashing into the ground suddenly swoops upwards, and the landing platform dives towards the ground and just managed to pull upwards before it can hit the ground.

panel from Moebius' World of Edena, p253

Prometheus: Dead Engineer Head

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Prometheus: Props

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a) Propstore: A dead engineer head from Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus. Led to a distant planet by ancient wall paintings, scientists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) join a corporate-sponsored mission to discover the source of life on Earth. But in the ruins of an alien space craft, the human explorers soon find that all is not as it seems, and a great threat lurks in its deep holds.(http://www.propstore.com/product/prometheus/dead-engineer-head/)

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b) Propstore: This head belonged to one of the long-dead fossilised Engineers found within the bowels of the Engineer ship on LV-223 and can be screen matched to the scene in which the exploration team find the bodies clamouring at the locked door. Made of biscuit foam, the piece features an array of detailing to replicate the look of the Engineer pressure suits including the long, snout-like respirator tube, and has been given a worn, dirty grey finish on the surface to look old and decayed. The underside, which was not intended to be seen on camera, has been left in an unfinished state.
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c) Propstore: Displaying some wear from use on the elaborate Prometheus sets, including some cracks and chipping to the paint finish, the piece remains in overall good condition.
Item size - 23.62" x 13.78" x 14.17" (60.0cm x 35.0cm x 36.0cm)
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