With ALIEN ROMULUS creeping up on us I can't help thinking about one of my favourite ALIEN characters, the derelict pilot, the space jockey.
What a guy!
Googling for skeleton space pilots I came up with these cool covers. Can you think of any more space jockeys?
There's an interesting pictures essay here about the origin of Giger's Space Jockey. What do you think?
https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2009/02/paintings-that-inspired-space-jockey.html
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tinkering with an image of a micronometer I added a statue figure!
Crew of the Pluto5 in Star Cops. The unfortunate miner in Moon Zero Two?
ReplyDeleteGood ones Kev!
DeleteThe crew of the Nova 5 from Red Dwarf
ReplyDeleteDarn beat me to it again.
DeleteDarn beat me to it again.
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember spaceman corpses in The Doomsday Machine -one of the worst SF films of my early years.
ReplyDeleteThat Alien blog has some interesting inspirations. I was thinking the Mayan "astronaut" from Chariots of the Gods was missing from the discussion, but there he is!
It is an interesting Alien blog I agree. Never seen the Doomsday Machine Looey.
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