#7641: DarkSyde — 10/26  at  04:42 PM
"And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves." – Kent Brockman

#7643: — 10/26  at  06:04 PM
Gamera will help us! Gamera is friend of all children!

#7652: — 10/26  at  10:31 PM
Photoshop? Nah, this is Brad DeLong in his larval form from back in the sixties. Viva la shrill!

#7661: Mrs Tilton — 10/27  at  03:13 AM
For shame, PZ. That is clearly a Coleoptera, not a 'bug'.

I would fight to the death against a bug invasion. But if our new overlords are beetles, I shall have no choice but to submit to them. After all, the Creator is inordinately fond of them.

#7662: PZ Myers — 10/27  at  06:34 AM
Yeah, I know -- I'm just using the name the website applies to the series. It also includes scenes of brutal savagery involving spiders, I should warn you.

#7671: Mrs Tilton — 10/27  at  09:09 AM
Hmm. I must say the spiders look like they're acting in legitimate self-defence. Several are in a standard response-to-threat posture; and rightly so, given what the soldiers did to their Philodromid cousin.

Unfortunately for the arachnids, they don't appear to have evolved the laser death-beams of the insects. Still, perhaps mankind will come to realise that spiders are our friends. They don't want to bite us or eat our food, clothes or carpets; they merely want to eat things that do. If we are faced with an invasion of giant ants and bugs and beetles, what better ally could we have than the Race of Giant Spiders? I pray only that we may curtail our short-sighted aggression against oversized arachnoids before it is too late for us all.

#7673: PZ Myers — 10/27  at  09:34 AM
If we elect Kerry in the next election, he will reach out to the arachnid community and forge alliances that will help us in our war on the Insecta.

#7681: — 10/27  at  11:52 AM
The grasshopper attacking Mt St Helens looks like something from "BIG" - Bert I Gorddon.

http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/Rick/bote.htm

#7785: — 10/28  at  08:34 AM
You guys should check out worth1000.com. It has thousands of photoshop contests on every subject.

Trackback: Enemies of all mankind Tracked on: The Sixth International (66.151.149.25) at 2004 10 27 09:30:08
Pharyngula points us to an astonishing and sobering display of documentary photography at Something Awful. After seeing these terrifying images, I must agree: John Kerry does not understand what kind of enemy we are facing in this global War To