You were a lot more generous (and imaginative) than I think I would have been! Not that I get a lot of requests.

There are a lot of scary carnivorous mammals, like bear-sized wolverines and (less scary, but still) bear-sized raccoons. Not as big as that pig though. 83

Remembering that modern domestic pigs can already outmass a human.

That thing is fucking terrifying.

Mr. Gibson. OMG. Can't. Stop. Laughing.

I'd have been tempted to give it to Dwight, Roz, and see what HE came up with. (Can't draw? Well... you did ask for MR. Gibson).

I shudder to think what you'd draw if I asked you for free art of, say, the Trio of Trepidation. (Don't worry - I won't. You and your time are worth far more to me than that).

Though I might have to start referring to you as "Mr. Gibson".

Believe it or not it's not that uncommon. I've had people come up to me at cons and tell me they thought I was a guy due to the subject matter of my work. Although I'd feel sorry for whatever guy got stuck with the name Roz. I suppose I could've sent it to my brother, who is the only real Mr. Gibson at this point.

It still does bring to mind the old Looney Tune / Red Skelton line, "He don't know me very well, do he?"

I'm sure that he got an abject lesson in this almost-entirely-not-extant domestic pig vs. the Hell Pig.

"RoZencrantz"?

Hell is for Bacon!

I am totally going to have to call you Mr. Gibson at some point... and make sure whatever sort of revenge you draw is exactly what I wanted to commission anyway. :P

Pigzilla about to make some bacon sandwiches of poor ol' Oinkey. I hope you corrected the misgendering, since that's a thing now I guess.

Naw-- the gender swap doesn't bother me. I just thought it was funny.

And the best part is, this particular species was identified just 101 years ago!

If I thought modern feral hogs were a nightmare, things must have been fun in Eurasia 28Mya...

You know, it's late to the party, but I finally figured out what the Hell Pig reminded me of - Frankenswine.

Frankenswine were a genetic aberration from Janet Kagan's old short story collection Mirabile. They were basically your Hell Pig combined with mole features - Hell Pigs that could burrow through the ground and attack you from beneath. And worse, they were omnivores - and utterly wrecked any biosphere they encountered. If they didn't eat you they happily munched on roots until every plant in the biosphere was dead. And good luck killing them - they could take a shotgun blast to the face and keep right on coming.

Remember Mabob? His one really big moment in the sun was during the war against the Frankenswine. And it was a war - surprisingly dark stuff for Kagan.