Monster of the Day #1716

Updated on April 6, 2018 By Ken Begg 10 Comments

It’s Friday! Yay! And here’s a sea monster! Even better!

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  • Gamera977

    So these guys built a war galley with a giant crossbow/Roman scorpion and are fighting a giant cross between a fish and a D&D beholder!?!

    TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!

    So I’m translating this to ‘King of the Water World’? I’ve read a bunch of Jack Vance stories but I think I’d remember this one and I don’t.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    That certainly is an odd scene. The people manning the oars appear to be a mixture of men and women in various dress–I guess they’re tourist class, in which case they’re facing the wrong way for the action.
    And the monster looks like he’s dog-paddling.

  • Ericb

    The Simpson’s reboot goes all grimdark.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Ok. Well, it does look dangerous Bob, but I think we are going to go with the crab fishermen in the Bering Sea. Call Discovery and let them know.

  • There’s something fishy about that monster. And yeah, that’s the best I got…

  • Acethepug

    Looks a little like something that might have inspired the flame-shooting whale from “Thundarr the Barbarian.”

    And I would buy the heck out of something with a cover like that!

  • bgbear_rnh

    I was going to make a piscean pun, but I decided not to take the bait.

  • Joliet Jake Blues

    That’s a pretty fair illustration of Jack Vance’s “The Kragen” short story, later expanded into the novel Blue World. I can highly recommend it to people – its both a good adventure story (as you can see) and also incredibly funny, simply by virtue of its setting.

  • Gamera977

    Thanks, I am going to have to find this now!

  • Sandy Petersen

    Hey’ I’ve read that book (in English). It’s by my favorite SF author AND I recognized it from the monster, with its flailing paddles and turreted eyes, which is carefully described in the book.