May 20, 2018
Phraints engraving chitin tattoos (Roland Brown, The Arduin Grimoire IV: The Lost Grimoire by Dave Hargrave, Dragon Tree Press, 1984)
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Phraints engraving chitin tattoos (Roland Brown, The Arduin Grimoire IV: The Lost Grimoire by Dave Hargrave, Dragon Tree Press, 1984)
Greybeardgamer’s collection of Arduin-inspired miniatures, L: Archive Miniatures Phraint and Vroat (by Nevile Stocken and Steven Lortz), C: Texas Miniatures insect warrior (Richard Kerr), R: Phraint and Vroat from Emperor’s Choice (William Watt) which still are in production.
Slurs
Everyone remember, “bug-man” is a racial slur. Call us Kreen or Tohr-Kreen. Or in our specific case Zik-Chil. If you must refer to us in less specific terms, call us “insect-man” (or in our case, “insect-woman”).
This is Insect Man from Spider-Man’s Tangled Web #10 by Kaare Andrews. He’s from an in-universe Superhero cartoon that bares a more than slight resemblance to Spider-Man.
It should be noted that this issue was published about a year and a half before Araña debuted and I find it kind of hilarious that the guy’s costume included a T-shirt, goggles, a backpack, and spikey-hair. So yeah in my head-cannon now Anya prior to becoming a superhero was a major Insect-Man fangirl and modeled her first attempt at a superhero costume after him. Also she and Kamala Khan have probably exchanged Insect Man Fan-Fics at some point.