*laugh* oh yes. And here's Den Den mushi, the transponder snail from #ONE-PIECE live action ! #molluscmonday #invertsincomics. The link takes you to the sound it makes when you ring it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIoz...
Because, really, what is fake Clark Kent but a skeleton with some hapless demosponge for a head?? 😂 #spongeThursday #invertsincomics #porifera
big pirate man on right with sawfish for a nose wearing a yellow shirt bearing brittle stars as design holding smaller young man in blue shirt
big pirate man on right with sawfish for a nose wearing a yellow shirt bearing brittle stars as design holding smaller young man in blue shirt
*Laugh* So, I'm watching #ONE-PIECE on Netflix and surprising myself how good it is (cause I didn't used to give a damn about it)-and THEN? This Pirate ARLONG with the sawfish for a nose? HE"S WEARING A SHIRT WITH BRITTLE STARS ON IT!! OMG! 😂🤣 #invertsincomics
small painting of starfish monster on man's face alongside the artist in a black leather jacket
Ha ha. The Formidable @templesmith.bsky.social and my STARRO the Conqueror commission from #awesomecon2026! #invertsincomics
Was at #AwesomeCon and was appreciating this GREAT Crashdown cover by @kevinmaguire.bsky.social , a book by @templesmith.bsky.social with LOTS of octopus and monster tentacles! Always a recommend in my book! #invertsincomics!
starfish monster with orange hood and sword from 1970s
starfish monster with orange hood and sword from 1970s
Kamisori Hitode aka RAZOR STARFISH from Kamen Rider V3! MORE recurring starfish body plans in Japanese monster TV! #echinoday #invertsincomics
2 page spread of a crab monster fighting a robot with a red hat and a sword. Live action Japanese style
Ha ha! For #Crustmas! this CRAB monster from DYNAROBO! Carcinization indeed! There IS a recurring crab motif in sentai TV series though! perhaps there is a phylogenetic basis! #invertsincomics
HITODE MURASAKI aka STARFISH purple a monster from the classic show KIAIDER! With a deadly weapon shot from the "eye" called the Starfish Sparkler! ha ha take that! #echinoday #invertsincomics #tokusatsu tokusatsu.fandom.com/wiki/Starfis...
page from old japanese magazine showing a sea urchin magazine attacking a small town
URCHIN KAIJU! THIS one is called UNI-GON! from 1966! WHAT HAPPENS when you cut funding to echinoderm monster research??? ha ha! translation of name from @mattalt.bsky.social for whom I am eternally grateful! #invertsincomics #echinoday
old Japanese art showing sea urchin monster with jets around oral opening.
SEA URCHIN KAIJU apparently called UNIRA! #invertsincomics #echinoday
giant crab on sea bottom in brown original color
Giant crab in blue and green (remastered colors)
TITANO! Giant crab monster from a 1959 TALES TO ASTONISH! #invertsincomics- original and remastered! ha ha Note the whale for scale! #crabz
large green jellyfish at the waterline attacking a freighter ship
and of course, there's the giant monster Aurelia jellies! #worldjellyfishday #invertsincomics!
Older Japanese science fiction/cryptozoology books had interesting ideas about where a Giant Jellyfish Monster could go and what it could do! 😂 #invertsincomics
..and of course the Japanese have some kind of tokusatsu monster based on a Dorid Nudibranch! #seaslugday #invertsincomics
giant octopus attacking submarine facing off against sailors with spears and axes
From what I think is a Japanese adaptation of 20,000 Leagues under the sea! #invertsincomics #octopusday #worldoctopusday
cover of vintage Japanese book showing a Japanese boy with a spear facing a giant brown octopus
From the Japanese ULTRA Q! OCTOPUS kaiju! #invertsincomics #octopusday #worldoctopusday
giant orange crab monster with two claws jumping out of the water
CRAB KAIJU from a comic adaptation of Japanese TV hero Spectreman! #invertsincomics #tokusatsu
comic book cover of Justice League. Giant Purple starfish on building versus 5 members of the league with starfish covering their faces
Giant green starfish with a red eye covering continents on the earth as the justice league looks on
What? I have not yet added STARRO-the Star Conqueror to #invertsincomics? The dreaded interstellar starfish that was crucial to the formation of the Justice League among others!
giant orange octopus Monstro attacking port in Tales of suspense
orange octopus destroying boat in Showcase: Challengers of the Unknown comic, "menace of the ancient vials"
Jack Kirby drew a mean monster octopus! MONSTRO and friends! Atlas era #invertsincomics
cross-section and anatomy of Monstro, an octopus monster
giant octopus monster attacking a mansion on a cliff
Atlas era octopus menace MONSTRO! from a re-visited Japanese art feature! #invertsincomics #molluscmonday
ha ha. A page from my old Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual-the LAND URCHIN! For some reason echinoderm monsters were rare-but SO many interesting features to use. #invertsincomics
A cool moment from Mark Schultz's Xenozoic tales where the heroes discover why its NOT safe to go into the water! EURYPTERIDS ATTACK! #invertsincomics
giant barnacles on monsters with TEETH! Being subverted by the Red Hulk
Muscular blue people riding giant terrestrial hermit crabs (underwater?)
From Red Hulk #9, circa 2012? have NO idea what it was about other than that 1. there are BARNACLES with TEETH that go GYEEEE! and blue people riding Birgus latro! giant land hermit crabs! #invertsincomics #crabz
In honor of the Crustacean Society Meeting held in Paris this week! A CRAB MONSTER from Galactic Guardians, a Guardians of the Galaxy spinoff in the 90s! Art by Kevin West and Stephen Montano! #invertsincomics
dr. strange-superhero in blue with red cape facing off against a giant grey slug with 2 antennae and a pink eye
*laugh* Dr. Strange versus the "Hate-filled, deadly, gigantic SLUG!" although it looks very snail-like to me! Strange Tales 164, art by Dan Adkins! #invertsincomics #molluscmonday
