Big Man

A shepherd finds his lost sheep in an unfortunate predicament.  Another watercolor illustration from my sketchbook. 

Gamera’s actions in the first two Heisei movies coming back to haunt him in Gamera 3.

Duel of the Symbiotes

What can I say, I liked Venom, even before the movie. Carnage? Nmmm so so. Kinda like Deadpool only even more violet, if that were possible. Anywho, here’s some fanart. The Official SFM Discord gave me some feedback to make them look more “moist”, and I gotta say, they are “moist”.

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Those things that Godzilla yanks out of Hedorah near the end of Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster? They’re eyeballs.

During shooting of Godzilla vs. Hedorah, the crew actually ran out of money because producer Tomoyuki Tanaka was in the hospital and he wasn’t around to wrangle writer/director Yoshimitsu Banno properly. Corporate Toho told Banno and company to shut down production and scrap the movie. Banno and special effects director Teruyoshi Nakano, being consummate filmmakers, just kept on shooting. The problem was, they had to shoot with whatever they had available. Hedorah’s eyes were constructed– but not painted (couldn’t pay to have whoever paint them now). Yasuyuke Inoue’s storyboards drawn up for the sequence are drawn colored exactly like Hedorah’s eyes, complete with pupils. Godzilla was supposed to yank Hedorah’s eyeballs out at the end because they were the source of the Smog Monster’s power. Dr. Yano looks at a piece of ground Hedorah eyeball under a microscope and discovers the drably-named Hedorium. How did Godzilla know all this? Because he’s fughin’ Godzilla, that’s why. Don’t question the King of the Monsters. And if you look, you’ll see one of them is dented in where Godzilla punched it earlier.

This is also why that old get-your-ass-to-Planet X model of Godzilla from Monster Zero was trotted out for the Godzilla flies scene– no money to make a new model!

Now, as to why Hedorah still has eyes later on, this is because they talk frequently throughout the movie that Hedorahs converge and become bigger. The Hedorah that tries to escape is the Hedorah Godzilla encountered early in the movie. After that fight, that Hedorah apparently encountered another, more powerful Hedorah (possibly the evil-looking one that sank the tankers?)

and merged together with it. The electrodes killed that bigger Hedorah and the smaller original one tries to hightail it out of there. If you’ll notice, from that moment on, Hedorah is once again smaller than Godzilla and Godzilla manhandles him with ease again. 

Also– while he is certainly flying– Hedorah is not transformed into the flying form, because he no longer has that ability. It’s frog Hedorah from there on out.

And there it is, based on the evidence given in the film and what happened behind the scenes to make Hedorah’s eyes not look their proper red. Don’t let wikis try to tell you otherwise.

I didn’t recognize the Godzilla design, nor did I know what was going on with the giant mutant rose Godzilla was fighting. I owned every Godzilla film extant at that time on video, and I didn’t know what I was seeing.  Remember, this was before the Internet was common, and G-Fan was just a gleam in J.D. Lees’ eye.  The vendor informed me that this was the new Godzilla film that had been released the previous year in Japan.  My mind was blown!  A new Godzilla film?!  Without the cheese inserted American actors?!  I couldn’t give the vendor my money fast enough in order to purchase my own copy of the video.

I took it home and watched it dozens of times.  It was in the original Japanese, not dubbed or subtitled, so I had a little difficulty understanding some of what was going on, but I comprehended enough.  Heck, many times I just fast forwarded to the monster battles.