They’re ten feet tall.
on May 1, 2019 at 12:01 amChapter: Queen of the Road
Characters: Alan Rees, David Walkerton, Jason Chesterfield, Joyce Brown, Mike Warner, Robin DeSanto, Sal Walters, Tony McHenry
Location: Final battle wasteland
I don’t remember the significance of the extremely blurry shot of the Martian Mothership in orbit.
Anyway, great pep talk, Alan.
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Then serve up some Gouda, Alan. This buffet sucks!
Ten feet doesn’t really seem like a lot. That’s barely two mes!
Yeah, I was expecting them to be much taller than ten feet.
Ten feet seems pretty friggin’ huge! Another three and they’d stand eye to eye with a T-Rex! Assuming their eyes are in roughly the places, anyway.
To be fair, T-Rex’s are also way smaller than I always picture in my head. I blame A Land Before Time.
I guess it depends what you compare it to, and whether you have to fight it. Andre the Giant was 7½ feet tall. A male Asian elephant or mammoth is about 9 feet tall, though African elephants get bigger. An Allosaurus looks pretty close to 10 feet high. They all seem intimidating to me.
God, I think that “They’re ten feet tall” line works really, really well. The way the dialog bubble is allowed to just hang there so you can consider the size of the Martians makes the horror of it really set in.
So are the aliens we’ve seen so far that short because they spent so much time in Earth’s gravity well, or do they all just happen to have Martian dwarfism? Does their society rank them by height, like on Invader Zim? Does Head Alien do all the evil he does because he has a Napoleon complex?
The Aliens we’ve seen so far – Head Alien, Alan Rees, etc. – are from the planet Alien (no, seriously). This upcoming invasion is led by Martians, presumably from the planet Mars.
The Martians are…very different from the Aliens.
If they have the technology to bring the dead back to life, they may as well have the capability to genetically enhance their soldiers.
First implication that The Cheese is not what he appears to be but was a rather more mundane being who has his current form for a purpose related to the attack.
Huh, I remembered this wrong, I could’ve sworn he said twenty feet tall back when I read this the first time. But I guess my memory was shaky…
I assume this is about the time when Rattrap would say, “We’re all gonna die.”