#supayra

[daikaiju-yuki]

The sons of Supayra

Drawn by @mekagojira3k for the new novel MOKWA: EXORCISM

[highly-radioactive-nerd]

I also took a.spin at Narajin the Lion God and Supayra the last Destroyer from @raffleupagus s Daikaiju Yuki series. These two are my favorite hero and baddie monsters respectively, but i need to give the rest of the pantheon a whirl sometime.

[tyrantisterror]

I’ve been meaning to draw the Pantheon Colossi from @raffleupagus‘s Daikaiju Yuki series for a while now (more specifically, I meant to do so in early October, but time makes fools of us all), and well, better late than never!  Even threw in Supayra and Piranhagon for funsies!

[raffleupagus]

So why frog?

I needed a villain and I knew that he had to be a South American animal. A poison dart frog is, despite its appearance and size, deadly and dangerous.

Then I got to thinking about how his demeanor is reminiscent of internet trolls and the Alt-Right, especially the way he spouts his rhetoric, and fascist Pepe memes immediately came to mind.

Now I’m not saying that you have to read “Supayra represents the Alt-Right” into the book, because this is a fantasy and I don’t want to kill your fun by making you think about real life but… look at some of the things he says, and the way he says them…

On a purely surface level, frogs are cool and underused giant monsters, poison dart frogs are dangerous, I wanted him to be kind of funny and “giant evil frog” is kind of inherently funny, and all of those things fit the bill.

[daikaiju-yuki]

Allie and Supayra, drawn by Matt Frank for Mokwa: Ursa Major. 

[daikaiju-yuki]

SUPAYRA, the last destroyer, from Mokwa: Lifesblood of the Earth

Artwork by Luke Stelmaszek.

[daikaiju-yuki]

'Mokwa — SUPAYRA mask' Mask by raffleupagus

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[tyrantisterror]

Some nights you just gotta draw a big asshole frog.

Supayra redemption arc when?