Final Boss of the comic: Neodym

NeodymThis Success machine is rather complicated and is part of the final part of my comic.

The Concepts: 1. Bleeding matador bull + cancer + Cannibalism + millipede + Magnet?

So do to the complex nature of this machine, I decided to base it directly on a photograph by sketching over it and keeping some aspects while removing other aspects. The intent is that the original picture wont be around after I’m done, so its mainly a time-saving measure. In any case, Picture if you will an Iowa class battleship who has mutated into a Success machine. Ive been asking around what might look cool for this concept.. So far playing with the idea of making the turrets gnarled warped and with different sized guns. Playing with the idea of this she-boat using various wreckage as band aids to heal. Thusly “the tails of airplanes” poke out off the deck, maybe other radar towers or pieces from dead ships poke out like spikes. The Guns in the front are overtaken by what looks like a huge cancerous mass of nano machine roots and brambles. haven’t decided if I should just keep the original size of the guns and offset the turrets a little.. or warp and mutate the turrets altogether.

Update: Decided to scrap the idea of millipede legs and “Yamato crab” legs altogether (the logistics of her biting people on land was getting complicated). Instead we will put more emphasis on her magnetic tractor beam power. She can simply pull people into the water towards her bitey open maw.

Half the battle will be defeating her kinetic shield, the other half of the battle will entail infiltrating her body to destroy her heart- the engine. This may or may not require a large bomb in of itself. Once her mouth is open, a High powered magnet comes into effect.. I may not have room to showcase this power tho.   In the meantime ive just been calling her “Neodym the cancer boat”

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Feign
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Feign
7 years ago

I leave the internet for one week and I miss a comic page AND a new Success Machine?

Have to say, I had been skeptical that you could make these characters really monstrous, but this one hit the mark.

It has me even more curious to see what the Space Station-derived Success Machine might look like (though I totally can’t think of any way it would make its way into the story anytime soon or ever really.)

Gear Head
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Gear Head
7 years ago

Oh I thought it would be like a beauty and the beast type relationship.

Gear Head
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Gear Head
7 years ago

One more question. Is it possible to have sex with a sane success machine like the jet you previously posted?

crimsonwolf911
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7 years ago

Do you have the Atoll Lab comic put up in an online pool anywhere, either on this site or another one? I can’t figure out where it is, either that, or this site just plain doesn’t have a button you can click on that takes you straight to a collection of all the comic pages thus far. It’s a neat read this story, and I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes.

Gear Head
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Gear Head
7 years ago

I also forgot to mention the aircraft imbedded into side and absorbed by the tumors. How does that work exactly.

Gear Head
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Gear Head
7 years ago

Wow this girl is a sight to behold. Just the red eyes alone send chills down my spine, and not the good chills. That jaw and that gash even make her more scary. She is definitely the final boss for this comic.

theian
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theian
7 years ago

it really is too bad about her temper, She is such a Beautiful Female. also your Commission page is empty

jean56f
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jean56f
7 years ago

Damn ratbat it’s really nice ! I can’t wait for the rest of the story, keep goin’ o/

Gingyflame
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7 years ago

Quick question: Can we make the babies? (God damn am I really that desperate!?) well I guess in general can success machines reproduce?

Norean
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Norean
7 years ago

Got a question seeing the growths on the bow. Do the traverse mechanism for the main guns still work or are they stuck in a fixed position. If Fixed, it means she will be far easier to defeat as she must keep targets directly ahead or behind her. Or use missiles for flanking targets as the 5 inch mk38’s won’t be too great against anything larger then a cruiser.

Jadex
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Jadex
7 years ago

Gabs! It has parts of other boats and planes attached to it like armor! Just run!

Norean
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Norean
7 years ago

I am going to go with once peaceful, but slowly mutated and driven insane by what was done to her.

Brendan O.
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Brendan O.
7 years ago

BB-66…That’d be the cancelled U.S.S. Kentucky, then? I can only imagine the horror a Dire Iowa-class would feel on seeing one of her sisters transformed into a tortured monster. A battleship is a very proud thing, they were the point of the sword in their day and they are still very-much loved ships, to see one like this is almost heartbreaking.

She’s a predator, this one, and it’d be a tough job to go down into the innards to destroy the boilers and the turbines, nevermind breaking through the shields and the other ghoulish additions. Tough nut to crack. Anybody got a spare Yamato class lying around?

GabsTheGabs
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GabsTheGabs
7 years ago

O my god THAT ship! (Run for your lives)

She is peaceful or see someone and want to attack?

Gingyflame
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7 years ago

Kinda reminds me of the Flood from Halo.

Iron
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Iron
7 years ago

Hmm…needs more guns. And then add more guns onto those guns. Maybe just make the guns shoot guns out of them.

I’m digging the jaw on her. Reminds me of a crocodile.

Jadex
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Jadex
7 years ago

All you need now is Ronald Lee Ermey to see this thing crawling into land and go “Holy-lee Jesus. What is that! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!”
I’d think even he’d start running after seeing that fuckin thing

Charon the Fateless
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Charon the Fateless
7 years ago

Ah, the shackles of fate- imposed by man upon his machines; for he does not understand their nature. Again; a pity that such creatures are doomed… Thank you for the explanation- t’was a kindness most artists ignore. Or they just don’t like dealing with wordy people whom take it upon themselves to make light of a very DIRE machine indeed.

Charon the Fateless
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Charon the Fateless
7 years ago

Seems a pitiful fate that the Success Machines seem to be built for failure… A pitiful irony really. But such are the shackles of fate…

Charon the Fateless
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Charon the Fateless
7 years ago

Oh my, it seems that she is fated to failure~. The irony of the success machine is it not?

GabsTheGabs
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GabsTheGabs
7 years ago

Wow… impressive concept. 🙂