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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9348155" data-attributes="member: 7044704">I love Jack Kirby and regard Kamandi as one of the most imaginative projects he ever did, but when I was a kid he gave me years of nightmares with that two-issue Tracking Site story arc.&nbsp; It's got some great stuff and it's an effective story.&nbsp; Tracking Site itself has shown up in as many of my RPG campaigns as the Rock of Bral (at least once in the same campaign, even - Nexus the Infinite City was weird) and I dig the servitek designs.&nbsp; But man, did it get at my subconscious.&nbsp; The Misfit and Morticoccus were creepy enough (particularly the ghastly death scene where the Misfit discovers he's definitely not immune to the macro-germ) but mostly it's the bats.&nbsp; Look at these things:<img src="https://d29xot63vimef3.cloudfront.net/image/kamandi/9-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://d29xot63vimef3.cloudfront.net/image/kamandi/10-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I had nightmares about swarms of shrieking man-bats tearing through the walls of my bedroom on and off for ages.&nbsp; Really punched kid me's buttons but good.&nbsp; Which is weird, because I have zero problems with real bats, cartoon bats, or even the somewhat similar Man-Bat character, who's actually one of my favorite DC character designs.But Kirby Kamandi bats?&nbsp; Hard pass.At least they were far less terrifying when the new creative team tried to bring them back after Kirby left.&nbsp; That story was just lame, not scary in the least.&nbsp; Took the King's touch to bug me.<img src="https://d29xot63vimef3.cloudfront.net/image/kamandi/52-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9348155, member: 7044704"] I love Jack Kirby and regard Kamandi as one of the most imaginative projects he ever did, but when I was a kid he gave me years of nightmares with that two-issue Tracking Site story arc. It's got some great stuff and it's an effective story. Tracking Site itself has shown up in as many of my RPG campaigns as the Rock of Bral (at least once in the same campaign, even - Nexus the Infinite City was weird) and I dig the servitek designs. But man, did it get at my subconscious. The Misfit and Morticoccus were creepy enough (particularly the ghastly death scene where the Misfit discovers he's definitely not immune to the macro-germ) but mostly it's the bats. Look at these things: [IMG]https://d29xot63vimef3.cloudfront.net/image/kamandi/9-1.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://d29xot63vimef3.cloudfront.net/image/kamandi/10-1.jpg[/IMG] I had nightmares about swarms of shrieking man-bats tearing through the walls of my bedroom on and off for ages. Really punched kid me's buttons but good. Which is weird, because I have zero problems with real bats, cartoon bats, or even the somewhat similar Man-Bat character, who's actually one of my favorite DC character designs. But Kirby Kamandi bats? Hard pass. At least they were far less terrifying when the new creative team tried to bring them back after Kirby left. That story was just lame, not scary in the least. Took the King's touch to bug me. [IMG]https://d29xot63vimef3.cloudfront.net/image/kamandi/52-1.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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