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A very visual email
🕑 Added 2022-03-18 18:17:31 +0000 UTCListener Patrick sent in this email, which wouldn't have really worked to read on the last episode, but put forth an interesting theory. Larry could easily be a FF fan. This is Pat's email, copied and pasted:
Something kept nagging at me. The black panthers. I was discussing with Discord user Jorkkeli about the possible influences of Antigua, and the story seems to be a mash-up of a lot of visual media influences - The Last Unicorn, The Hobbit, The Wizard of Oz, the Smurfs (minwads being a mash-up of Smurfs, Hobbits, and Munchkins, each with a characteristic that makes them exactly one thing), but something wasn't adding up.
The black panthers. I'd seen them somewhere.
And then it hit me - Frank Frazetta. I remembered a few of his artworks that contained women with black panthers, and found this sketch:
Bingo? I mean, sure, it's a sorceress looking woman with one black panther on a throne, sure... But... it couldn't be that, right? So I start looking up Frazetta art...
...snake around the neck...then Jorkkekli found this...
Bat-winged goblin...
Centaur and bear-like bear with extra long claws and a deformed face...
NASTY FOX!
GORDLE!
FAIRIES!!
SHARKS
GHOST WITCHES AND TREES WITH NO LEAVES!
OWLS, GORILLAS and PANTHERS (oh and a dog) and RED EVIL EYES
You get the idea. All of this.
And then we get to the narrative styling of Antigua.
What happens?
A suspenseful scene is described, what happens next? (viewing a Frazetta artwork)
*turns the page in the art book*
And then just as suddenly, it was gone.
Scenes constructed from how you read an art book.
I give you Antigua, the Land of Looking at Frazetta Paintings.
Comments
Veronica Fish
I loved seeing Frazetta's originals at illustration exhibitions, and was surprised just how small some of them are.
Tina Tempest
That really makes sense. The Ellises are the right age to have had college roommates who hung Frazetta posters on all their walls.
