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Connor Ricks
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An illustrator, here's some things
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POXTONGUE - My take on a Dragon Quest enemy.
A green sickly reptilian creature with a long, lolling tongue from which spore things are emerging from
October 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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There was a Dark Horse comic that touched upon similar themes called "Aliens: Apocalypse - The Destroying Angels". I think the idea is Aliens were the force behind the Fermi Paradox.
A panel from "Aliens: Apocalypse" featuring a primordial Alien attacking a Space Jokey. Text reads: "Oh, yes. It's happening again. I've seen the pattern. One and a half billion years ago, the giants who built this city grew into a space-faring race. For a time, they dominated our galaxy. Then the angels appeared and restored balance."
September 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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PREDATOR 2 Yet another lifeform that preys upon the deadly ALIEN, adept at smuggling itself into their hives as part of its life cycle. This species also begins as a face-hugging parasite, one that seeks out the same kind of host organisms the Alien utilizes. After implantation it becomes dormant, waiting for its current host to be captured by Aliens, placed within a hive, and face-hugged. The gestating chestburster will be summarily devoured by the predatory embryo, with the nutrients triggering a growth spurt and subsequent eruption from the host. This newly mobile phase has very little scent, allowing it to evade detection from Aliens while it feeds on eggs, facehuggers, and chestbursters. (Alien Queens possess the ability to detect these intruders, as do experienced Praetorians.) Though growing to a size larger than a Warrior Alien, this predator’s long serpentine body allows it to slip through surprisingly small corridors. The two wing-like appendages on its back can fold down to protect its vulnerable flanks from the raking claws and teeth of the Alien swarm once its scent becomes more pronounced and is finally targeted by the hive. This is the make-or-break phase of its life-cycle, with only the swiftest and most resilient individuals escaping into the outside world. Once out it will continue to prey upon isolated Alien Warriors and will eventually lay an egg, beginning the process anew.
September 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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PREDATOR 2 - Another lifeform that shares and ecosystem with the infamous ALIEN. This one specializes in smuggling itself into Alien hives. Heavily inspired by Giger's "Alien Monster IV".
A reddish brown alien lifeform, with an elongated eyeless head, four vaguely humanoid limbs, a skeletal torso, and a long twisting tail ending in a bladed stinger. Two wing-like appendages sprout from its back, and the end of its tongue has pincer-like jaws at the end of it.
September 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Grudge Match 32
The Kathoga/Mbwun from "The Relic" Larry Daley from "Night at the Museum"
August 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Much like Indominus Rex and the Indoraptor, INDOMIGNATHUS has very few actual military applications. It towers over the traditional compy at a whopping two feet in height, and has keener intelligence and sensory abilities thanks to additional genes from Velociraptor antirrhopus, Nanotyrannus lancensis, Majungasaurus crenatissimus, Anolis carolinensis, and Crotalus atrox. Thanks to these traits it can be trained to sniff out landmines whilst also being too light to set them off, similar to the Southern Giant Pouched Rat. "She's very careful. She knows how sharp her claws are so she always tucks them in when I pick her up. She's still a bit pointy but she never thrashes so I've been okay this whole time. Especially at the end of the day, she likes to run around in the morning but by dinner she's all tuckered out. A real sweetie. Also that mouse problem we had is gone."
August 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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INDOMIGNATHUS - A compy with attitude (and several genes originating from many other species of dinosaur and reptiles).
A greyish-blue bipedal dinosaur of slight build, with small spikes along the sides of its body down to its tail, sharpened claws, and large long jaws.
August 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Grudge Match 31

"RECALL that the villain of the piece, more often than not, possesses a pseudonym that is NOT their name. Need I REMIND you that they call Comic Book Guy."
David Dunn from "Unbreakable" Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons
August 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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NINETIES DÆMON - Living in the past much? I guess in a way it's all we have, as long as you ignore the present and the future, man. You can summon HÆMAK-ARÆNAH if you want, dudester, but you have to chant its name eleven times. Thankfully there's, like, totally a song to help you with that.
A yellow giraffe-colored winged reptilian creature resembling a mix between a dromaeosaur and a dragon casts its glance towards the viewer. A green JP symbol is blazened across its thigh and its tail has a jibba-jabber on the end of it. A speech bubble resembling a VHS rewinding screen has the words "REW" within it, along with the sentence "Don't have a 🐄, man" (the word 'cow' being represented in cuneiform). There's a faint jazzy blue and purple pattern along the white background.
June 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Jon Nappleseed - Mass produced science hero from the future. Named after the legendary tree-herder from Appalakian legend.
A humanoid being with colorful tubes running through his body, a head with a flat carved top, and large mismatched arms glows magenta in a black void.
June 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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WYRM - Where do wormholes come from? Turns out it's worms. Growing to lengths more easily measured in miles/kilometers, they use fractal teeth to rip through the fabric of space-time as they travel throughout (and outside) the universe. This process 'aerates' the dimensional branes, which is good!
A spikey, worm-like creature with three serpentine limbs glows green in a black void. Three mandibles crown its jaws as it tears colorful rips in the fabric of space-time.
June 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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ZUKI: Zoologically Unclassified Kaiju-like Idiosyncrasy
Non-Hostile\NOT radioactive\Unknown origin\Possible link to MTR-01(ゴジラ)\First seen 9/9/78 Pitkin, Alaska\Known to: circumnavigate globe in a week: spew smoke when threatened: land on boats & enter buildings\CAN SUMMON MTR-01 TO CURRENT LOCATION
A winged reptilian creature with spikes running along its back is lit red in a room with pipes running along the wall. One of its wings juts out from the drawings frame, as does the tip of its head.
June 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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UB-13 Outsider
a.k.a. VEXTRUDER
A reptilian creature squats on four legs, each limb ending with a tangle of claws. Its head is bare of flesh, consisting of a set of jaws, two eyes, and a brain-like organ.
June 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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DINOSAUR WIZARD - Disko the Warlock, attended by the winged compsognathus, about to perform his best trick; summon giant space rock.
A bipedal purple and tan dinosaur with a head similar to a dodo strides forward, bone wand in hand from which green sparks shoot and trinkets hang, accompanied by small red bat winged dinosaurs. Upon the larger dinosaur's head is plumage similar to a peacock, the eye-spot markings look exactly like its real eye. A ring of 'eyes' is formed from both its eye, the eye-spot plumage, and several floating 'eyes' of unknown origin. One of the green sparks issuing from the bone wand looks similar to a comet.
June 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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More Eon info
PERMIAN RAGE EON is the GOD OF AGES, and is the oldest draconian god still ruling upon the New Urth. Make no mistake, there were gods older than even him but they’re long gone now, lost to the deep time. He is an insatiable herbivore, all his devotees focusing on raising crops for him to feed on (all humans would be farmers if he had his way). This plant matter is fermented so thoroughly by his digestive system that it has become star stuff, an aetherial reality-curdling substance that phases through his body and can be fired from his jaws as a weapon. He’s survived the Great Dying, the Mesozoic Wars, the Big Rock, and Necrosan. He sees all other gods as a bunch of whippersnappers who don’t know how to properly RAGE and he’s more than happy to show them how things were done back in his day.
June 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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EON, the New Urth God of Ages. His body is able to ferment plant food so thoroughly it turns into reality-warping star-stuff, which he can also fire from his jaws as a weapon. It's never too late to make your own Primal Rage character.
Eon, a gigantic green, yellow, and red cotylorhynchus (a small headed herbivorous synapsid from the Permian era) taking an aggressive stance as aether phases through his body and billows out of his jaws. Beside him is a hooded human welding a scythe.
June 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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THE LEMUR'S DREAM - To me Gooble obviously represents humanity; upright, broad shouldered, ponderous and all consuming. Noggindrill is mankind's machinery which, to a lemur, might as well be living things. Strangely shaped, unknown function, unforeseen consequences.
A large purple hulking figure (Gooble) tosses handfulls of berries into his mouth. An orange creature with a drill for a head (Noggindrill) emerges from the ground.
June 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Extra Oviraptor Info
May 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Any creature that shared an environment with Jurassic Park's version of Velociraptor would have to had developed anti-raptor tactics in order survive such a fierce and intelligent predator. Oviraptor got by though the use of vocal mimicry in order to confuse and destabilize them.
A bipedal reptilian dinosaur against an orange background. Its back is towards the viewer and its long tail thrashes behind it as it looks back and you. It is facing the viewer, mouth is open as if in mid shriek, and it is holding a ransacked egg carton in its clawed forelimbs, one of which has fallen out. A Jurassic Park 'JP' symbol is on its hip, Lost World style, reading 'Site B - JP.23'.
May 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Expanded Anguirodon info
ANGUIRODON - This dinosaur kept competitors and predators at bay with outbursts of unrelenting ferocity. Hurling themselves at combatants, they utilized their armored carapace as a weapon, as well as sharp fangs they developed due to their omnivorous diet. It is currently believed this species adapted limited bipedal movement solely to enhance their attack posture thanks to powerful leg muscles built up from swimming vast swaths of ocean to cross between islands. Enhanced reflexes are thought to have been caused by clusters of nerves within its shoulders and hips, amplifying signals from the brain similar to the ‘second brain’ discovered within Godzillasaurus. Though nominally enemies, there is evidence of Godzillasaurus and Anguridon overlapping territories and living without conflict, a form of naturally occurring Mutually Assured Destruction pact. (Also it uses the same roar sound effect as Gurion from the Gamera films)
May 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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ANGUIRODON - An unmutated heisei version of Anguirus that shares an environment with the Godzillasaurus. Fierce, semi-aquatic, and omnivorous. The living embodiment of the best defense being a good offence.
A greyish, quadrupedal, armored dinosaur leaps forward against a light green background. Its armor plates are covered in spikes with a few scars criss-crossing amongst them. It has four horns adorning its head like a crest, and it's sharp white teeth are bared.
May 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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What arrives once a week, twice every day, and appears on the calendar three times a month? Once, twice, and thrice equals six, but what is that number afraid of? How many wonders of the world do you know? How many sins can you name? How many heavens? WHAT EIGHT NINE?
The number Seven bares its teeth
May 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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ALIEN/THIS ISLAND EARTH: ANGRY WEAPONS - “Like looking in a mirror, isn’t it? What’s that old Earth saying? ‘The apple does not fall far from the tree?’ Well, this apple had a worm attached to it. Or perhaps a serpent.”
Drawing of Giger's Alien (from the film 'Alien') with traits of the Metaluna mutant (from the film 'This Island Earth') - an eyeless, skeletal, biomechanical monster with pale iridescent skin.
May 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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ALIEN/THIS ISLAND EARTH: THE PEACE ENGINEERS
Drawing of Giger's Alien (from the film 'Alien') with traits of the Metaluna mutant (from the film 'This Island Earth') - an eyeless, skeletal biomechanical monster. Also there's a drawing of a shark in the upper right. Drawing of Giger's Alien (from the film 'Alien') with traits of the Metaluna mutant (from the film 'This Island Earth') - an eyeless, skeletal biomechanical monster. ALIEN/THIS ISLAND EARTH: THE PEACE ENGINEERS - “I know I’m just a savage, uncivilized human in comparison to your vast space-faring intellects and thinking computers, but I think this needs to be said; are you out of your damned minds!? Look at that thing! Do you really think it will lay down its arms and go back home to mom and pop when they win the war for you? You want killing machines now, right now, but you’re not thinking ahead. Or even looking back! You just explained you always find the eggs in ruins. Ruins! They murdered their makers! And now you’re giving these things a second chance to swarm over every planet and kill everyone else!”
May 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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DUGTRIO
A reddish-brown creature with the body of a mole cricket and three little stumpy heads with red noses against a pale background
May 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM