Mind Your Mechtorians: Professor Gilligan Inkfathom & R Bomb by Shauni55

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ARTIST: Shawn Barnes aka Shauni55
NAME-OF-SUBMISSION: Professor Gilligan Inkfathom

STORY: "Professor Gilligan Inkfathom is the leading marine biologist in the city of Retropolis. With his PHD from Gear University he has gone on to study and discover many interesting and remarkable organisms and mechtorians. With his latest discovery the "R" Bomb, Inkfathom has gone down as one of the leading figures in the scientific community next to Erasmus Swift."


ARTIST: Shawn Barnes aka Shauni55
NAME-OF-SUBMISSION: R Bomb

STORY: "On a fine day of data collecting in the channel ways of Retropolis Professor Gilligan Inkfathom came upon what appeared to be some aged contraption. "My gears" bubbled Inkfathom , "What in the name of Retropolis is this!?" After extracting the device Inkfathom went to work studying it. "It would appear that the Mechtorian (he had come to the conclusion that it was indeed a Mechtorian at this point) in question is many decades old. It also seems that it was painted at one point of vibrant colors but has since faded..."

The Professor pondered while scratching his head with a loud screech of metal against metal. "My only concern is to what this key is inserted into the back of the creature." He wiped away some mud from a rather large clock work key protruding from the machine. "It seems to be almost up, but what is this depiction of the skull of a Homo Sapien." After much study, and little advancement in his work Inkfathom dubbed the Mechtorian the "R Bomb"...