Well I decided to go through that thread - yes, all 177 pages of it - and what's really surprising is that there are actually a few flashes of imagination in there. You've got some people with quite a bit of talent actually and some interesting mecha and fantasy designs and a few interesting gun sketches too. What's
really interesting is that some guy actually tried his hand at some very realistic spaceships:
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I might make sure that the guy behind the "Atomic Rockets of the Space Patrol" site is made aware of this.
Like I said, actually quite a few flashes of imagination in there, but for the most part, everything is either poorly drawn, outright forgettable, generic, and uninspired, or outright stolen/re-purposed from other sources. Oh, and there are some real gems in there too. These are but a
few that I spotted (and not even the most egregious ones, just ones that I thought were most...interesting)
For the most part they really do speak for themselves, presented without comment, like:
-SNIP-
that... I just... what... I don't even...