#lizard league

[boney-kingofnowhere]

Rex a doodle doo (after being shot in the head and having his hand bitten off) also ignore how bad the line art is i did this on my laptops touchpad

[alexinatree]

A couple of little bits and bobs from Season 2 of Invincible now that these Episodes are out. Thought it might be fun to show the final special pose alongside some off the super rough sketch work we bounce around before going to cleans. If you are watching, I hope you are enjoying the back half of season 2!

[milk-ducts]

dont drag me on here,, this is how i cope

[foursthemagicknumber]

King Lizard: Hello Guardians! I bet you’re wondering why I’ve called you! Well-

Rex: Thank you for calling Perry’s Pizza Parlor how can I help you?

King Lizard: Wrong number. *Hangs up*

All the other Guardians:

Rudy: REX!

Rex: Heh… Don’t worry! He’ll call back any second-

Phone: *Starts ringing again*

[ecast1110]

Shrinking Rae: Down With The Grossness

Out of all the heroes of Invincible, I feel like Shrinking Rae is one that truly gets down and dirty.

Compared to other female heroes like Atom Eve and Dupli-Kate, her power set of shrinking inside people and being covered in various bodily fluids on a regular basis. She is the equivalent of a human plumber!

In her introduction at tryouts, she is confident, playful, and perky despite making an ape puke and being covered in ear wax. Peak queen shit!

Shrinking Rae is the embodiment of the anti-girl hero, in terms of being pristine and bright in design. Her costume is merely a scuba suit with colors that resemble bile, vomit, and grossness in general. However, she owns the look snd embraces the filth around her. She subverts the expectations of what being a feminine hero really means beyond her gender.

She gets bloodied, messy, but is also resourceful and doesn’t hold back if it means saving lives and getting the job done.

However, this mentality would also be her undoing. Being swallowed against your will and forced to grow, only to break from the inside.

I know people thought the recon of her surviving felt anti/climatic, given the grotesque sound design of her bones breaking and drowning in her blood inside. However, I feel like all the scenes prior to her using her powers set up the idea that she has endured enough to handle the worse.

Not to mention her backstory of her parents training her vigorously, probably making her endure breathing exercises and numbing her to the claustrophobic trappings and smell of the human body.

Despite being broken and disillusioned with superhero work, Rae is someone who will still show up.

To me, Shrinking Rae has a lot of untouched potential in her story and glad she was strong enough to stay around. Despite grossing people out, she welcomes it with her sharp wit, optimism, and willingness to save people.

Side note: With her retired, I see her having a future in the medical field as a compromise of staying retired but also helping people, being the champion for the little guy.

[the-lavender-room]

I’m just gonna post this now or I might never.

so yeah Atom Eve AU where she’s raised by the lizard league. A what-if Queen lizard and Prince lizard ran into Polly (eve’s birth mom) and what’s his face while they were trying to make their great escape form the gotd.

Also, her design is based off of the horned lizard

[artbyblastweave]

Something I find interesting about the Lizard League is that these guys are supervillain supervillains, costumed in the classic mold- Salamander with the impossibly-skintight patterned-cloth costume, Iguana with the tight-tights-and-animal-headpiece combo, Komodo with that 70s-style strongman cowl-and-jersey, King Lizard with the Baron Strucker-style double-breasted greatcoat. These guys are unrepentant in their design. And in the comics, where the Sequid arc didn't happen till around issue 40, these guys were part of this established stable of villains who'd show up as fodder for montages and one-off fights where they needed to have a hero beating up someone who's clearly a supervillain, never mind who. That meant that their eventual escalation to nuclear terrorism after 30+ issues of low-rent stuff, and the ensuing clusterfuck, actually parsed as a meaningful escalation from the established status quo. These guys are breaking the rules. Supervillains do stuff like this sometimes, sure, but not this kind of supervillain- these guys are doing MCU-style unmarked-Kevlar terroristic supervillainy when they should be doing lizard-themed gimmick crimes or Super-friends stuff!

Well, no, that's not quite true. It feels true, but honestly there are plenty of examples of campy big-two villains doing flat-out nuclear terrorism pretty early on, actually. Just to pick some examples from X-Men, Magento did it in his first appearance, and the ANAD lineup's first real outing was to stop Count Nefaria from hijacking NORAD. Screwing around with the military's world-ending shit is downright commonplace for supervillains, once you start tallying it up. But between the goofy kid-gloves approach of a lot of early silver-age comics and the sheer volume of Stuff that's happened in the Marvel and DC continuities, the impact of attempted nuclear terrorism inevitably gets sanded down, it just becomes one more data point in the endless ebb and flow- hell, it can result in actual nuclear detonations, and eventually it's going to get sanded over. In the nineties, Vandal Savage actually nuked Montevideo using depreciated USSR stock. Is that salient, these days? This event that would have reshaped geopolitics had it happened in our world? So yeah, supervillains make a run on the nukes all the time- but it doesn't count if you do it in a onesie with your initials stenciled on it.

But Invincible, as a self-contained continuity, actually has the ability to maintain perspective and appropriately weigh a grab at the nuclear arsenal - it's very much not business as usual, it's not part of the typical cops-and-robbers runaround. It's not stealing a priceless diamond, it's not a bank job, it's not even rampaging through the city center with a giant robot. It's a credible attempt to end the world, it's a challenge to government power that they won't let stand, costumes or no. It's the government sponsored super team coming in guns blazing trying their damnedest to kill you from the word go, and its you trying to kill them equally hard because there's really no coming back from this if you lose. And it ends up that treating this situation with a commonsense level of gravity acts as a deconstructive backhand against every similar situation in the comics that ends with the villain shaking their fist and escaping at the last minute.

[knight-lizard]

I'm going to redraw this without that fuckass ai snake picture