Its A Sci-fi Holiday In These Ed Emshwiller Cover Illustrations For Christmas Issues Of Galaxy Magazine,

It’s a sci-fi holiday in these Ed Emshwiller cover illustrations for Christmas issues of Galaxy magazine, 1951 to 1960. Please note that Santa Claus appears in each one, always with four arms.

Me playing GBO2: Alright, that’s a good amount of recycle tickets with more coming in next week, I reckon I can sit on this for a while until something good comes along in the recycle shop.

The Recycle shop: Oh hey, nice pile of tickets you’re saving up there pal, shame if we happened to stock the FA-010A FAZZ today, a rad-ass mobile suit that’s an absolute bitch to get now, from the similarly rad-ass Gundam Sentinel.

(Honestly why do I do this to myself)

(I don’t even play the game anymore, I just use it as a virtual suit gallery)

(And it’s not like I’m ever gonna use the damn thing, it’s been power-creeped out of existence and the gun takes forever to charge)

(And it’s technically inaccurate because it’s got a hyper beam saber)

(But if I’m being honest that’s an improvement)

The Iron Horse - art by Jean Giraud (1970)

The Argonath by Jef Murray

Venonat -- Sumiyoshi Kizuki

Alrighty, so a little more on that Gundam Belphagor. Part of the reason that I wanted to talk about all the G Generation designs is that they all occupy this weird canon state. All their bio’s say “built, deployment unknown” or “designed, maybe built” or “limited deployment to obscure front”, so they’re all basically “you can’t prove it didn’t happen” which is a nice angle.

(There are a few that are explicitly non-canon, like the monoeye gundams and things original to the games, like the Halphas, above)

But nonetheless it’s interesting seeing what’s been worked in, whether it’s an Axis Prototype that didn’t make the cut, an evil knockoff of the Victory Gundam or a whole new Gundam.

A whole new Gundam, oh my. Wouldn’t it be grand if there was a series that had “gaps” if you will, units we know existed, but don’t know anything about. Units that a brand new Gundam would fit right alongside.

I mean, there might even be a series that already fits with the gundams being named after demons from the Ars Goetia, like the Halphas and Barbatos, that’d be cool.

So yeah, I’m kinda looking forward to seeing what weird thing the next game to get original designs adds.