Gargantuan Media

Puppets is a self-published graphic novel from Gargantuan Media. The graphic novel follows a strange young 9-year-old girl named Miette who seeks her revenge through a mysterious lumbering concrete giant she names Cement. Cement, encountering monsters, rat hordes and local law enforcement destroys most of downtown in the process.

Two more projects are upcoming, including Lemming Island - an evil Dr. Seuss meets Hedgehog in the Fog (Russian, 1975) and Roaches: A Graphic Novel a demented look at bein’ a bug.

This is a Kaiju book. Kaiju is Japanese for “strange beast” or often “monster” like Godzilla and King Kong. In the page above, Cement is surprised by another monster, the massive Blob - an American kaiju. This Blob busily dissolves people and buildings when coming into contact w/ARC equipped military elements.

The Blob gets smashed up into smaller parts by an enraged Cement. This scene features Cement, Miette and ARC troopers and the Blob. That makes two principles (Miette, Cement) plus 1 hostile Kaiju (Blob) plus misc. ARC soldiers (7-12 of them firing ARC’s) and tanks (3-4) to animate here. That’s a total of like 14-19 plates spinning around at once, minus the flames and smoke!

In the script, the Blob bellows when hit by small arms fire or by Cement - like a heavy bass meant to rock small film fest theaters. Each time one of the blobs are hit they sound off as a herd with the bass’s pitch and volume relative to the size of each blob. The “central” and largest “main” blob would always be the deepest sounding bass with the smaller blobs sounding different.