The Leviathan series artbook, The Manual of Aeronautics, comes out on August 21. That’s just two and a half weeks from now, so it’s probably time for more art revealings.
Here are the previous art reveals, in case you missed them:
The Bridge of the Leviathan!
The Cyklop Stormwalker!
Clanker uniforms!
Flechette bat!
Shall we vote on this? We shall.
Would you rather see . . .
1) A portrait of Dr. Barlow? (with bonus Tazza!)
2) A rigger’s uniform? (with various specialist/rank patches)
3) Or the message lizard? (carried over from round 4)
And all of it in glorious color!
Please vote by number. As always, use this comment thread to wrangle, browbeat, and bludgeon your co-commenters into agreement. They like it when you do that.
Let the voting begin.
You can pre-order the Manual from the usual online joints: Powell’s, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or IndieBound. It will land at your local bricks-and-mortar store on Tuesday, August 21.
August 5th, 2012 04:26
Number 1. Tazza for the win!
August 5th, 2012 04:30
Number 1, please. ^^
August 5th, 2012 04:36
Number 2 please! We’ve already seen Dr. Barlow, and the lizards. I would like to see the uniforms up close and in detail!
August 5th, 2012 04:43
A riggers uniform!
Please, because you love me!
August 5th, 2012 05:03
I’ve got to go with Dr. Barlow, #1. But the rigger’s uniform sounds really interesting too.
August 5th, 2012 05:19
1 definitely
did I spell that right
August 5th, 2012 05:25
number 1, tazza!!!
August 5th, 2012 05:43
#1, Dr Barlow, Riggers uniform comes a close second…
August 5th, 2012 05:43
I vote for number 1.
August 5th, 2012 06:37
Number 1!!!!!
August 5th, 2012 06:46
3, though it rather seems I’m in the minority.
August 5th, 2012 06:54
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
August 5th, 2012 06:54
2!!!
August 5th, 2012 06:59
NUMBER 2 Please…# TWO PLEASE!(:
August 5th, 2012 07:08
#3
August 5th, 2012 07:21
1
When I walk in the spot
This is what I see
Alek has stopped and he’s starin’ at me
I’m not fabricated, but I just can’t seem to show it, show it, show it
IM TAZZA AND I KNOW IT
August 5th, 2012 07:33
In the name of cosplay- RIGGERS’ UNIFORM!
August 5th, 2012 07:41
#2 pleez
YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!!!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Leviathan
If it doesn’t link my bad.
August 5th, 2012 07:41
@16-
Cute
August 5th, 2012 07:59
2. Definetly.
August 5th, 2012 08:36
Totally #1!
August 5th, 2012 08:42
Number 1!
August 5th, 2012 09:08
1!! Number one for the win! French the llama
August 5th, 2012 09:15
2!!!! Please!
August 5th, 2012 09:20
Option 1!!
August 5th, 2012 09:21
1 please. I want to see Taza in colour and I want to know whether Dr. Barlow’s uniform is really in black or in dark blue.
August 5th, 2012 09:22
1 Taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa <3
August 5th, 2012 09:25
2 – Riggers uniform for sure!
August 5th, 2012 09:30
2 please :]
August 5th, 2012 09:42
3! 3! 3! 3! 3! 3! 3! 3! 3! 3! 3!
I would like the message lizards of course! I’ve seen Barlow in the books, but whenever a message lizard is shown, it’s just like really small and in the corner. They deserve more recognition!
August 5th, 2012 10:08
No. 1: Barlow. By all means, Barlow.
August 5th, 2012 10:24
1 =D
August 5th, 2012 10:44
@16-so cute! I’d like to see #3, but I think I’m one of the only ones.
August 5th, 2012 11:18
1 or 2, please!
August 5th, 2012 12:37
Number 1 please sir!!!
August 5th, 2012 17:06
Number 2 please!!
August 5th, 2012 18:07
umumumumumum
1? Yes, 1!
Before I overthink it. ^^
August 5th, 2012 18:28
1! How can you not pick Dr. Barlow! It’s like not breathing! You just can’t pass up that opportunity(:
August 5th, 2012 18:33
11111111111111111111111
August 5th, 2012 18:45
#2
August 5th, 2012 19:02
1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dr. Barlow AND Tazza? YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
August 5th, 2012 19:08
number 2!!!!
August 5th, 2012 19:09
Well I would choose #1 except that we’ve seen the two up close a few times in the books already, so #3
August 5th, 2012 19:10
I… want…
MESSAGE LIZARD.
That way I can make the fake evil ones look exactly like the originals in my fanfic.
*cough*
I mean… because they’re cool!
August 5th, 2012 19:11
Hey, Midshipman K! I know you from deviantART!
August 5th, 2012 19:56
@44 I knew it! I goddamn barking knew it! When’s the next chapter coming?
August 5th, 2012 19:58
#3! The message lizards are a big part of Darwinist airships!
August 5th, 2012 20:00
3 please! (AKA Parrot Dragon) I’d honestly be happy with any of them. So excited for the Manual! (But it releases less than a week before SCHOOL starts
Summer’s too short.)
August 5th, 2012 20:05
#1!
August 5th, 2012 20:06
Oh yeah. #2 please.
August 5th, 2012 20:10
Definately #2, the rigger’s uniform!
August 5th, 2012 20:30
#1
August 5th, 2012 21:15
NUMBER 1, BRO.
August 5th, 2012 21:17
# 1! i wanna see Tazza in color! all the photos i can find are in black-and-white (duh), and i can’t find any up-to-date pictures of a skin (poor Tasmanian Tigers) so i vote one! i can’t figure out a boffin’s uniform so bonus! hey everyone, vote for 1!
August 5th, 2012 21:25
1111111111111111111111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 5th, 2012 21:26
1
August 5th, 2012 21:53
2 I LOVE ME THEM UNIFORMS
August 5th, 2012 21:55
1, please!
August 5th, 2012 22:49
2!
August 5th, 2012 22:50
#2!
August 5th, 2012 22:51
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
August 5th, 2012 23:42
#2
the riggers uniform!!
August 5th, 2012 23:43
riggers uniform please
August 5th, 2012 23:43
2
August 5th, 2012 23:50
1 please Scott.
August 6th, 2012 00:05
2 please.
August 6th, 2012 00:21
Definetely #1!
August 6th, 2012 00:28
Oh, the riggers sound awesome, but I love Dr. Barlow. 1!
August 6th, 2012 00:35
THREE
i have a thing for reptiles…
THEY’RE SO CUTE
however i also have been known to say that hard drives are cute, so maybe i should just shut up…
August 6th, 2012 01:29
2
August 6th, 2012 01:31
2 would be great! I have a thing for uniforms…
August 6th, 2012 01:47
2
August 6th, 2012 01:53
ah, sorry to be off topic, but i didn’t know where else to ask… Scott-la: would it be illegal to use an illustration from leviathan on a tee-shirt? i would buy an official shirt if they were sold, but…
August 6th, 2012 03:17
2 PLEEEEEEASE!!!!
August 6th, 2012 03:27
3! Lizard please <3
August 6th, 2012 04:06
3. I want to see the lizard!
August 6th, 2012 04:13
1, please! Tazza would look gorgeous coloured!
August 6th, 2012 04:13
@ 73 Brid-a-ma-jig: i’m pretty sure that unless you give Scott and/or Keith credit somehow, you might be breaking a copyright law or two… i wish there were official tees, also.
August 6th, 2012 04:27
Middy Miles! Hello on #45! You do? I mean, my usernames the same, so….Hi?
August 6th, 2012 04:29
Number 2! ouo
August 6th, 2012 04:32
#1! With bonus Tazza.
August 6th, 2012 05:07
Me and my daughter Jesse want message lizards, PLEASE!
August 6th, 2012 05:18
2!
August 6th, 2012 05:35
#2, the rigger’s uniform
August 6th, 2012 06:14
Dr. Barlow and Tazza, please!
August 6th, 2012 06:20
TWO! If not two, then Tazza (and I guess Dr Barlow.)
August 6th, 2012 06:36
Number 1, please!
August 6th, 2012 06:42
1!!!!!!
August 6th, 2012 06:50
@48-For me it comes out TWO DAYS before school.
August 6th, 2012 07:18
I still want too see the behemoth but ….. I guess ….. Ummm ….. Number three ….. Ten more days till we see all of these awesome pics
August 6th, 2012 07:33
1
August 6th, 2012 08:19
Ehhh…ummmm….hmmmm…..don’t know…..
TO BLAZES WITH IT NUMBER THREE
August 6th, 2012 08:20
I haven’t been on…fifth voting already? Hope it doesn’t take as long as number four. (hint, hint, Scott!)
August 6th, 2012 08:32
# 1 =D
August 6th, 2012 08:59
number 1!
August 6th, 2012 10:07
#1 PLEASE!
We hardly get to see Tazza and I love Dr. Barlow!
August 6th, 2012 16:13
@ 48 and 89, where do you all go to school??? you get back so early! oh wait yeah, i’m in Boston Public so everything’s later for me. never mind, forget that.
August 6th, 2012 16:39
I want to see them all! But since I don’t think that’s going to happen I’m going to vote #2
August 6th, 2012 16:56
so gotta go with numbero ONE!!!! i gotta see Barlow and Tazza!
August 6th, 2012 17:16
number 2!!!
August 6th, 2012 17:18
This is so hard…. ugh. Dr. Barlow and Tazza please! # 1!
August 6th, 2012 17:36
Number 3!
August 6th, 2012 18:43
22222222!
The rigger uniform!!!
August 6th, 2012 18:49
Scorpio-Ferret:
You are lucky! I start school on the same day the Manual
comes out! Same as my brother, and I have cousins who started today!
School kind of sucks here in Mexico????????
But it’s akward. I mean, I don’t want the summer to end but I want to see all my friends. That always happens…
August 6th, 2012 19:34
#2 because we already have the message lizard on here. Dr barlow is one of my more favourite characters, but i feel like color isn’t going to bring a huge revelation for what she looks like, since we’ve seen her pretty detailed in black and white.
what i really want some reveals for is Cutters. Do we even have a release date yet?
August 6th, 2012 19:48
NUMBA ONE SCOTT-LAAAAA.
August 6th, 2012 20:10
2!
August 6th, 2012 20:27
I’d love to see the rigger’s uniform. (2)
August 6th, 2012 20:52
FOR COSPLAY: 2.
August 6th, 2012 23:03
Number 2! I’d love to actually start working on the costume portion of my WIP cosplay.
August 6th, 2012 23:11
Dear Sir, I would like to place a vote for the riggers uniform, aka No. 2.
August 7th, 2012 00:57
Number 1 (definately with tazza)
August 7th, 2012 01:07
Numbah 2!!
August 7th, 2012 01:20
Camila, that’s awesome! i honestly really want to visit Mexico! sorry for my being a bit daft, but i kinda forgot that you can get books anywhere worldwide and that fans aren’t necessarily in the U.S.
August 7th, 2012 01:58
2!!!
August 7th, 2012 03:05
1!!!!!
August 7th, 2012 05:09
2!!
August 7th, 2012 05:26
BARLOW
August 7th, 2012 05:54
2 please!
August 7th, 2012 06:11
One!
August 7th, 2012 06:23
#3, the message lizards need some more love!
August 7th, 2012 08:42
Instead of voting, can I just sit here and be smug that I managed to snag a copy at Comic Con? Haha, beg him for scraps, peasants!
August 7th, 2012 09:21
2 please
August 7th, 2012 10:09
2 plizz
August 7th, 2012 10:09
But I don’t mind which one really
August 7th, 2012 10:17
Hey Scott, can you PLEASE put some more stuff on the Bonus Stuff page???? There’s like NOTHING, for about a YEAR! It’s supposed to have bonus stuff galore! Come on!
August 7th, 2012 10:18
Excuse me, #126, but I am the biggest Tintin fan ever. Period.
August 7th, 2012 10:19
I was the first one to think of it!
August 7th, 2012 10:20
AHEM, but I am THE biggest Tintin Fan in the whole wide world, and let that be the end of it!
August 7th, 2012 10:21
#129, we all know that I’m the absolute biggest Tintin fan in the UNIVERSE, so lets leave it at that, shall we?
August 7th, 2012 10:23
Whoops, #130, or should I say, #130 AND #129! You’re just the same person! You just made a mistake, and know that PROVES that I am the biggest Tintin Fan ever, because Tintin would NEVER cheat like that to prove he was a bigger fan!
August 7th, 2012 10:23
Uh oh, now I’ve really stuffed up. Now everyone knows I am just the SAME PERSON!!!!
August 7th, 2012 10:25
Tintin would never pretend to be 3 people and argue with himself as to who’s the biggest fan! He wouldn’t even have an argument, he’d just leave and say ‘Whatever, I don’t care, goodbye,”. You suck!
August 7th, 2012 10:26
Are you just dissing yourself? Aren’t you aware that this is just the same person?
August 7th, 2012 10:27
Well duh. All of these past ones since #124 are just the same person being bored, including this one and the last one.
August 7th, 2012 10:27
So . . We’re ALL the biggest Tintin Fans ever? In the universe?
August 7th, 2012 10:28
In the MULTIVERSE, man! Anyway, this is a Manual of Aeronautics poll, not a random Tintin forum. We, I, should probably go.
August 7th, 2012 10:29
Okey doke. Sorry, Scott, if you had to read all that when counting the votes.
August 7th, 2012 10:30
Yeah, sorry man, for wasting your valuable vote counting time.
August 7th, 2012 10:30
We’ll just leave you now.
August 7th, 2012 10:31
Unless you found that amusing, haha.
August 7th, 2012 10:32
I did like a MASSIVe page of this sort of stuff on my blog. It was so funny.
August 7th, 2012 10:33
This will make it look like more people have voted now. 143 votes! Nah, just 123.
August 7th, 2012 10:33
Anyway, sorry for wasting your time. Unless you found it funny.
Bye now!
August 7th, 2012 13:23
It has begun.
August 7th, 2012 20:07
#1 please! I would love to see Dr. Barlow and Tazza!
August 7th, 2012 21:12
@124-144-U ROCK!!!
Hey, if Scott didn’t find that funny, don’t worry, cause I laughed so hard I fell out of my chair. And I’m not just saying that.
August 7th, 2012 23:08
Hello, Earthlings. I come in peace. What is this strange custom you have here? Voting, hm. For what? Something called the Manual of Aeronautics? Sounds interesting. I think I shall partake in it. Number 1 please. I should like to see this creature you call “Tazza”.
August 7th, 2012 23:51
One one one one!!!!!
August 8th, 2012 00:08
One please!
@148-Why didn’t I think of that…creative commenting though!
August 8th, 2012 00:34
2
August 8th, 2012 00:35
um rigger uniform please. there really shouldn’t be any question of that. still…
August 8th, 2012 00:38
maybe I should rephrase that: Two really.
August 8th, 2012 01:06
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August 8th, 2012 01:08
I meant 2.
Jeez, you dumb “shift” button.
August 8th, 2012 01:16
2.
August 8th, 2012 01:31
oh my gosh, what’s happening here? all you Tintin fans, can’t this happen on Facebook instead please? and Random Alien, i hope you’re just being funny because you better not be dissing Tazza.
August 8th, 2012 03:17
Who’s tintin again
August 8th, 2012 03:35
#2
August 8th, 2012 04:26
#3
August 8th, 2012 04:27
Voting is closed now, because it’s AN EXACT TIE between 1 and 2!
(My counting may not be great, but work with me here.)
So we shall see BOTH numbers 1 and 2. (I am benevolent and wise, and too lazy to recount.)
August 8th, 2012 05:19
@157-Geez, you can’t appreciate a little humor, huh?
@161-YAY!
August 12th, 2012 02:37
Dr. Barlow FTW!!! I wanna see Tazza, too! ^^