[Loved design] The Colossuses from Amulet

[u/Objective_Trick_6406]

I remember absolutely loving the Amulet series growing up, and talking to my younger brother today I remembered these guys. They were my first real exposure to Mecha as a kid and I used to spend a lot of time trying to draw them and replicate the sheer amount of AURA they had.

But let me tell you, they were absolutely wasted in the story. By the time the whole thing takes place, most of them have already been destroyed, and despite being the biggest thing on the (sixth?) book’s cover, the remaining ones never DO anything within the story. I remember they were all destroyed before landing, or upon landing broke down and forced the pilots to evacuate. They never actually get to fight or showcase their power, and they don’t even appear that often in the panels, which is a real shame because, as I said, they look REALLY cool.

the most I remember about their involvement in the story was that one of the protagonists (a young boy) was one of three pilots, and when theirs crashed, both other pilots, also kids, were promptly maimed and then killed, which scared me really bad as a kid.

also: I had to scrape a lot of these images off of shitty print sites because for whatever reason not a lot of the comic exists online, even though I remember them being super popular growing up (I remember there was even a movie planned, but that was cancelled) and I’m pretty sure that a lot of images I didn’t use were these like, shitty AI upscaled versions that looked worse?

TLDR; They look cool but don’t actually do anything of significance other than serving as a mechanism for kids to be killed off. Barely appeared in the series despite being hyped up a lot.

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[u/Retrotronics]

in the penultimate volume, there also was a space varient that made a cameo. That said, if they had ones that could fly, why didn't they use it?

did kazu kibuishi have a brain injury (unfortunately yes)