Enshohma Escapes to Live Again

09/13/2025

The Goddess of the Blue Snake Cult (Nagi for short), a giant magical charlatan from another world who runs a small town cult deep in Tennessee, but poorly. She's an original monster girl of mine who is more of an offbeat loser and minor antagonist (likely towards G.L.U.E.) despite the alluring pose she's pulling here.
I've done artwork of The Goddess before, but I hope to make some much-needed new illustrations this year, THE YEAR OF THE SNAKE!

09/13/2025

The Pachishohma take on Ray Harryhausen's Giant Archelon, named (unimaginatively so) Archo the Archelon. I have not much to say about this fellow personality wise, but he seems relatively nice, not destroying buildings like that scumbag Doug the Slicer.
The building and sky photo elements were taken by myself around Pasadena, CA, while the look of Archo himself was influenced by an old turtle toy I had and Hanna-Barbera character designs, hence the bowtie.

09/13/2025

I've been wanting to draw the more obscure and arguably despised members of Batman's Rogues Gallery.

The kind of wackier supervillains and giant monsters that make insecure comic book writers jump through endless hoops to rewrite said characters' existence AS WELL AS making the more pathetic comic book readers crybaby up a storm or suffer a brain aneurysm whenever said characters are referenced even for a fleeting moment. Look towards the comments below if the latter wet themselves trying to come up with moronic insults against today's subject!

As for the rest of you, THE COOL PEOPLE, let's have some fun under-and-over the rainbow!

The Rainbow Creature made its first appearance in Batman issue 134, "The Rainbow Creature" (September 1960), during the era when Batman and Robin were trying to emulate Superman's success by fighting monsters and aliens alongside the super-crooks and goons before the Adam West live action series, surprisingly, brought some sanity back with its the first two seasons, relatively speaking, which would inspire a welcome lite rebranding of the comic thanks to new artist Carmine Infantino.

The Rainbow Creature itself is a mysterious entity that rose from a South American volcano. Its body is covered in stripes of red, yellow, green and blue, with each color representing a different power. The red stripe allows the monster to burn its way through objects; green can temporarily trap people in a paper-thin two-dimensional state and yellow can turn objects into mist; while blue lets the creature emit a freeze ray. Once a color is used, the stripe fades to white and the creature has to replenish it by extracting the color from another object.

Yes, I openly plagiarized the DC Comics Wiki to save myself some much-needed time. Why'd you ask?

Seriously though, here are some online pages, articles, and short videos that go more into The Rainbow Creature's deal.

Forgotten Super Villains: The Rainbow Creature
https://youtu.be/zjuCnyJNOZU

Who Is The Rainbow Creature?
https://youtu.be/yEfT7FS4K2M

Rainbow Creature on Batman Fandom
https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Rainbow_Creature

Batman 134 entry on DC Fandom
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Batman_Vol_1_134

Batman Brave And The Bold Gets Deep
https://youtu.be/9DLkR0esATM

While admittedly many of the alien foes introduced in this campy run were forgettable (no Brainiac or Sinestro for Batman, sadly), several of the striking giant monsters made enough of an impression to still see some callbacks and even return engagements in recent years, with the Rainbow Creature virtually standing at the summit of such obscurity.

Having learned more about this spectrum-subterranean, he's a serviceable antagonist with a memorable look and was pretty fun to illustrate, though I may have failed in capturing some of the finer details, like the vaguely teddy bear-like 'ears' and exaggerating the monsters' height compared to the more conservative original.

09/13/2025

08/08/2025

Sarelyn Crustacia is the forgotten daughter of the ancient monster lords Echinda and Typhon, sired before her parents' demise at the hands of cruel and petty Greek Gods. She has lived on into modern times as a sea fairing kaiju-sized troublemaker (menace) though has many fans for obvious reasons.

Source link: https://www.deviantart.com/enshohma/art/Sarelyn-Crustacia-June-2022-UPDATED-918868831

08/05/2025

This incoming Wednesday night! Join Raf and his guests for a double feature of the 1980s fantasy films WILLOW and THE DARK CRYSTAL. Its Small Heroes, Big budgets, Mixed Results, only on twitch.tv/enshohmalives

08/02/2025

On Episode #74 of The Movie Graveyard Shift, Raf & I dim the lights for Alfred Hitchcock’s sinister merry-go-round: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951). Live Watch-Along of this Hitchcock classic TONIGHT 9:00 PM CST @ twitch.tv/enshohmalives

Two men meet by chance. One (FARLEY GRANGER) has a wife who won’t divorce him, the other (ROBERT WALKER) has a father he wouldn’t mind seeing off this mortal coil. Over drinks (naturally), a monstrous exchange of murders is proposed. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, as it turns out.

08/01/2025

Will be drawing and watching shark-related kaiju videos later tonight around 8:30PM PST / 10:30PM CT over at twitch.tv/enshohmalives Join me, if you dare.

07/18/2025

Abyssal Megalodons, close cousins, if not direct decedents, of the prehistoric Megalodon who evolved into deep-sea dwellers over their long-extinct tropical relatives, complete with bioluminescent eyes and sagging fat reserves that assist in their nomadic lifestyle. Despite being passive compared to warm-water predatorial sharks, one should still NOT want to find themselves in close quarters to these unpredictable giants.

Source link: https://www.deviantart.com/enshohma/art/Abyssal-Megalodons-July-2025-1219652675

07/13/2025

We had two very successful streams on Twitch which is still up for viewing on said site. Between the two, I highly recommended A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946): www.twitch.tv/enshohmalives

07/02/2025

Etch, or simply H, was one of the monsters featured in a promotional set of playing cards, printed and distributed by Japan's Kewpie Mayonnaise during the 1970s.

According to the card's text, Etch / H is a Hydrogen Monster from Egypt who stands 1,000 meters in height and 500kg in weight.

Its memorably off-putting appearance has made Etch an iconic Pachimon, one with many vinyl figures and even film appearances, such as Minoru Kawasaki's Den Ace series and the 2005 short THE FIERCE GREAT MONSTER BATTLE, the latter portraying Etch as an extremely powerful fiend who burns enemies into ash simply with its mere presence.

06/04/2025

May 2025 UPDATE: Improved some of the atmospheric effects and added some dust / sprinkles to the foreground.

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Long before I stumbled upon the technological wonders of the Layers and Paint Bucket features in Photoshop, I did everything, gradients, coloring, and effects, all in one single plate and man, did that take for-freaking-ever!

Which is one of the reasons why this ambitious fan-piece took so long to do because, by the time a discovered Layers, half the work was already done and restarting from scratch was a most unappealing of options. That, and I wasn't being paid for this one by an outside party BUT it's finished and I, Enshohma, once again, have given an obscure character high quality artwork which it probably didn't deserve to begin with.

Not that I like admitting this where Hanna-Barbera's Godzilla is concerned as I am a big supporter of that simple but entertaining series along with its colorful plethora of original enemies of the week like The Seaweed Monster who's the very first plant-based challenger in the Godzilla franchise, predating Biollante by 11 years!

True to its name, The Seaweed Monster is a mass of aquatic algae mutated by radiation into a hostile beast who goes after the crew of Calico and Godzilla when they first discover the aberration deep within the Sargasso Sea: a real-life region of the North Atlantic Ocean steep in legend, including seaweed that ensnares ships. The Seaweed Monster is simple but very serviceable antagonist with a creepy enough design reminiscent of the far more famous Hedorah, even if The Breeder Beast from this same series is the true Hedorah analog.

Plus, The Seaweed Monster does have a surprisingly well executed death scene for a late 1970s adventure cartoon produced by The House That Fred Flintstone Built (Hanna-Barbera).