#zoopremacists

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Gamma Terran naturalist Bloc Sánchez tackles a wide variety of subjects; his bestiaries cover shark-men, Gamma Japanese warriors, pseudo-Yexils, and the ubiquitous Zoopremacists.

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Gammatober, Day 3: Zoopremacists

One of the going gags here -- given how many artists do anthro of animalfolk in elegant human clothing, whether it’s that of feline royalty or Astro City gangsters -- is that the Zoopremacists all walk around in the fashions of the Ancients without understanding their original context.

In case you’re unfamiliar, I’m talking about

which obviously refers to the

(1st edition Gamma World was often unclear on how to spell that. Elsewhere it was even ‘Zoopremists’. I’ve taken the liberty of correcting it.)

As far as they know, the Tomorrow Men haven’t met any Zoopremacists yet, unless they’ve infiltrated the Army of the Bear (they would qualify as a “large mass of mutants”) or those Badders they met that one time.  How you tell the difference between Napoleon’s faithful foot-soldiers and the lunatic fringe?

Good question.

Oh, finally, deepest apologies to JC Leyendecker.

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I only just found your Zoopremacists thing, but I know a series that's matches their vibe PERFECTLY: "Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts" on Netflix. It's set in a post-apocalyptic world populated by numerous groups of mutated animal-people, with the most antagonistic of these groups being fond of wearing formal clothes (Wolves in turtlenecks, the Mod Frogs in suits, & ESPECIALLY Scarlemagne's court of aristocratic primates). The parallels are almost one to one, you should check it out.

And so I did!

And, wow, yeah -- those are Zoopremacists for sure!

For anyone who hasn’t checked ‘Kipo’ out, you should: it’s arguably sillier than stock Gamma World -- maybe ‘wild and woolly’ -- but it’s too good to pass up. It has the look down, and a great deal of imagination that went into the show. Some sample visuals:

Thanks for the heads-up, @serpentking456

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GAMMA WORLD is rarety straight-up anthro; Hoops and Badders are almost always rabbit-like and badger-like from the neck down. The Gallus Gallus from “Famine at Far-Go” is chicken-like, and so on.

Even so, the mutant animal people of Kim Nguyen - aka Zarnala - are beautifully done, and if you remove the modern dress (although, who knows, who’s to say the Zoopremacists didn’t unearth a department store of the Ancients?) and add in some more animal details, you might just find these guys on Gamma Terra somewhere.