Animal Style Designs 04: Zodiac One--Point One

More floggery¹ for Empowered: Animal Style.

This is the first of many, many, many designs for the larcenous Animal Style gang's transport/car carrier/getaway vehicle--Zodiac One. It was quite a challenge, coming up with a vehicle that could perform all there of these tasks.

In this initial iteration, I had intended to design something that could carry all of the Hard Suits² and Land Mates³ internally. Unfortunately, I discovered there would be little room on-panel for the stolen cars, which were sort of the point of the story, with the size of this particular beast, so other options had to be pursued.

With this design, I tried in incorporate design elements from the sporty, 1980's Steinwinter truck concept of The Highwayman⁴ fame. I also tried to give it sort of a croccidile/dragon motif on it's forward section.

Since it didn't make into AS, I'll probably use this design somewhere else. Something tells me it will look really spiffy in green.

<sub>1.) Floggery: "To advertise and promote a product or service on personal websites or blogs." Term is actually a portmanteau, combining the words Flash: "to display obtrusively and ostentatiously." and Blog: "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer."

Still weird to say, "I'm flogging myself." and have that be a good thing.

2.) Hard Suit: Roughly man-sized powered armor that augments the strength of the wearer.

3.)Landmate: Big Honkin' robot driven by a human operator, usually riding in the torso.

4.) The Highwayman 1980's action show, in which a poor man's Mad Max rides the post apocalyptic road ways dispensing justice in the worlds most badass truck. Mad Max meets Knight Rider</sub>