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What are you complaining about? It's a great picture of you, PZ.

By 'Tis Himself, OM (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Hmm. The folder is labeled "insane visions". How's that for lucidity? ;-)

By irenedelse (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

PZ, is that the Trophy Squid(TM) you are with in that picture?

By Gregory Greenwood (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Ok, I give. Is that glans-headed, multi-tentacled monster your sidekick or is it an evil being that has you in its grasp?

But either way, I would have recognized the PZ visage. No mistaking that!

By Die Anyway (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

awesome

By Rev. BigDumbChimp (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

No wonder you were expelled from Expelled. The entire theater would have smelled like a tide pool.

By Windyshrimp (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Holy hell, PZ... haven't you ever heard of a toothbrush?

By Celtic_Evolution (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

So, that's what you look like when you throw off that mild mannered professor disguise. Suitable, but where's the cyberpistol and pirate hat?

By Nerd of Redhead, OM (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Didn't know PZ was one of the X-men. That's awesome. I'm assuming this implies some sort of mind-control powers for summoning cephalopods.

Alterna-post: Shouldn't there be a scarlet A on the chest? Because I bet this is how all atheists look to religious folks... *sigh*

By MoonShark (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

For some reason I thought you'd have on pumped f$%^k-me high heels and net stocking?

By Deadbunnygangsta (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

I will envision you as such in all future angry posts.

Feel the wrath of Cephalopodius!!!!! (your new official supervillain nickname)

By Androly-San (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

So, PZ... You've, umm... been working out, huh?

By Capital Dan (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Your hair on top is thinner than that, otherwise a perfect likeness.

By NewEnglandBob (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

I must say that it's considerably better than your usual attire!!

By bill.farrell (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Awesome! A cyberpistol or some form of Steampunk weapon would be just about the only thing that could improve on this. Dashukta, your link is broken--but I googled Cthulutech and it looks cool. I'll have to see about a campaign in that.

Aww, isn't he a sweet teddy bear.

By ashleyfmiller (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

That needs to go on a t-shirt. STAT!

By https://me.yah… (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Look out, you could be cast in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

And Hagar the Horrible bites the dust.

To see more evidence of the artist's intriguing fascination with SF monster/military art, go to that folder at http://conceptart.org/artimg/insane_visions/full/

The ARC is an unusual echo of those frauds with their evidence of Noah's floating barn (arkfinalsmalls.jpg).

By JohnnieCanuck (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Sorry. Still reeks of teddybear.

By Sili, The Unkn… (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Given the previous threads today, I keep wanting to caption it "Is that an octopus on your shoulder, or are you just happy to see me?"

awesome picture of you, but who is that hairy guy you entangle there?
and cthulhu (tech) p&p rocks.

New from Hasbro: New Atheist® action figures! Collect 'em all!

PZ Myers action figure with Cracker Frackin' Grip™ and Cephalopoid pal™ shown here. Trophy Wife™ sold separately.

By Brownian, OM (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Not bad. But I think it would look even better wearing a crown of gonads.

By Big Boppa (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Awesome. Just plain awesome.

PZ Myers has been infected with Las Plagas? Run for your lives!

Great... everyone here in the office is wondering why I'm giggling uncontrollably.

By scottfmessinger (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

i love you PZ! <3

By sophia-daniels (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

PZ Myers....the real Dr. Octopus!

This would make a great comic book. In the first story PZ will face his archnemesis, the insane magician Mabus.

By Feynmaniac, Ch… (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

I feel left out.

By curious tentacle (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

In the first story PZ will face his archnemesis, the insane magician Mabus.

If you have Mabus's ship be the Time Cube, I think you may have a winner on your hands!

By day time he is a mild mannered biology professor who runs a popular blog. By night time he is a caped squided crusader fighting crime.

By Feynmaniac, Ch… (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

It's not entirely clear if there's one or two creatures here, but both are adorable and cuddly. But shouldn't they be gnawing on babies or puppies?

#35

Or crackers?

It's not entirely clear if there's one or two creatures here, but both are adorable and cuddly.

He was scientist conducting experiments involving cephalopods, symbiosis and radiation when something went horribly awry....

(Seriously, this comic book needs to be created!)

By Feynmaniac, Ch… (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

There will be emails...

One glance at this fierce, tentacled, predator warrior and the viewer is seized with an almost unbearable urge to dress him in a fuzzy sweater with a bow tie, give him a chocolate chip cookie, and hug him.

Which is an interesting reaction on the part of the viewer. But, there it is.

So that's what's under those fuzzy sweaters.

By ronsullivan (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

@ #30:

[The scene: a dank, steamy, poorly lit room, filled with pipes and hoses. A large pit fills the centre of the room. A squad of pantalooned Pontifical Swiss Guards bring in PZ, hands bound.]

PZ: (to Mooneybaum) What's going on...buddy?

MOONEYBAUM: You're being put into communion wafer dough.

[Ken Ham moves away from the group to Bill Donohue.]

HAM: What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me.

DONOHUE: The Vatican will compensate you if he dies. Put him in!

[Realizing what is about to happen, Dawkins lets out a wild howl and attacks the tone trolls and accommodationists surrounding PZ. Within seconds, other Vatican reinforcements join the scuffle, clubbing the giant biologist with their laser weapons.

The accommodationists are about to bash Dawkins in the face.]

PZ: Stop, Richard, stop! Do you hear me? Stop!

[PZ breaks away from his captors. Vader nods to the guards to let him go and the blogger breaks up the fight.]

PZ: Richard! Richard, this won't help me. Hey!

[PZ gives the biologist a stern look.]

PZ: Save your strength. There'll be another time. The Pharynguhorde—you have to take care of them. You hear me?

[PZ winks at Dawkins, who wails a doleful farewell. In a flash the guards have slipped binders on Dawkins, who is too distraught to protest. PZ turns to the Pharynguhorde. Suddenly, one of the Horde steps forward.]

SOPHIA-DANIELS: I love you, PZ!

PZ: I know.

By Brownian, OM (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

He's a mollusk-ular man!

By a.debaser (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

So, PZ... You've, umm... been working out, huh?

Obviously...on a Nautilus.

By Randomfactor (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Brownian, OM @ 41;

We all know it is OK, though, because in the next scene Mooneybaum will have a last minute change of heart and will free the mighty Dawkins-Bacca and princess Sophia-Daniels from the evil Pontifical Swiss Guards, and they will go on to rescue PZ from O'reilly the Hut in the next movie.

All the while, the final confrontation between Brownian Skywalker and Pope Palpatine aboard the Death-Cult Star grows ever closer...

By Gregory Greenwood (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Looks like a skid row Indiana Jones with the DT's.

By Robert MacDonald (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

PZ, in the last twenty years, while you were frozen trapped out on the prairie, there have been tremendous advances in the field of dentistry.

By chuckgoecke (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Why are your hands deformed?

Actually, the image makes PZ look like a Babylon 5 Vorlon or something.

By https://me.yah… (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

PZ,

The studio promo shot is perfect; I hope you got the whole series. They're great.

plumberbob

By https://me.yah… (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Yoik! That's a keeper!
I don't know where I'll use it, but its too good not to have!
Anybody know a good 25mm sculptor? I'd love to have that in my miniatures collection :)

By Charlie Foxtrot (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Walton, note the enthusiastic female response. Apparently actual feminism works even better when you're enmeshed with a mutant squid. (Does Oxford have those?)

You look strong enough to spend several minutes violently shaking John Davison, terrifying him just enough to make him tastier through the release of adrenaline…

By Heather C (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

Looks like we could send him to fight the oil spill in the GOM... Hmm, on second thought send him to the boardroom at BP's next damage control session and broadcast it live.

By Fred The Hun (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

I like it. Missing the spectacles though. Could add a pair of some sort of Steampunk specs.

By david.utidjian (not verified) on 06 May 2010 #permalink

that is pure awesome and win.

It almost need some sort of over-the-top quote like "Behold - Science! Where is your god now, believers?!"

PZ, that looks suspiciously like a Vorlon encounter suite.

Vorlon

Are you Kosh Naranek?

When does the action figure get released?

#58

This. I will buy them in bulk.

Zoinks, I've seen those menacing eyes before. But I suspect it's simply Old Man Withers. I wonder what he would have gotten away with...

FUCKING AWESOME

P Z, since you have apparently gone headfirst into H.P. Lovecraft's narrative universe, you will be happy to know that Charles Stross' "The Fuller Memorandum" (the third novel in the "Neuromancer meets Cthulhu and Dilbert" series) will come out this July. Lots of demons, computers and explosions (or Life as usual at the University of Minnesota?).

By Birger Johansson (not verified) on 07 May 2010 #permalink

*delurking*

AWESOME!!!

*relurking*

That is teh awesome.

Just has one minor niggle, but then again I'm sure there's a manicurist somewhere on campus.

Is that Norwegian Lady bothering PZ?