Selection for Thursday May 2nd 2013.

Artist name -  omninomnicom Link to the image - http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9799051/

Image type and characters - Type A color traditional scene of a horse being eaten by a huge bird (cormorant, macro/micro ).

Why this image was chosen - It took a while foe me to get around to doing a feature on this image but since we are beginning a new month I wanted to start it with something big. I saw this image several months ago when it was first posted and knew that sooner or later I'd get around to featuring it so here goes. This is a 3 image mini comic of a paint stallion who in the first image has been grabbed by a huge, hungry cormorant. The way the horse's arms/hands are placed on the first two images makes me think unwilling scene. The bird may have landed and grabbed hold of horse's legs and started swallowing before he had the chance to resist seriously, but by then its too late. The artist here has put together some very realistic looking characters and used the traditional materials quite well, the cool blues and greys give this picture a cool atmosphere. For me the second image on the bottom really makes this whole effort work for me, that neck bulge is very hot! The horse's expression in that middle frame and the way he's trying to hold the cormorant's beak adds believable panic feeling to the prey as he feels the pulling of the bird's throat get a hold of more of his body every second. The lump in the neck has a larger bulge with a smaller, longer one below to finish the middle scene perfectly...so well done! In the final frame we see a very satisfied bird in a cut away scene where the horse is now curled up inside the avian's gut. The middle frame alone is worth induction into the group's hall of fame but to have the other two images with it is extra topping on a very good visual storyline.

Very well done omninomnicom, feet first bird vore like this is rather uncommon.