Sketch 3 of 5!
This guy is tough to draw, I looked up reference and I cant determine what shape his body is supposed to be. Someone draws him big and perfectly round, someone draws him wide like the Kingpin, Spaz draws him with some strange but interesting pillar legs. I also can’t determine what shape his head is supposed to be. I think I ended up with a mixture of sorts that I find appealing but there is still much more that could be done to make sure I get a satisfying design that would allow him to exist in the Sonic style and could be drawn again and again from all angles.
If I remember correctly, and I’m not looking this up online to verify so someone let me know if this is right or wrong, I think Mogul’s first appearance was in the special Battle Royale issue? I think he had the Fearsome Five or Destructix or whatever they were called to do his bidding. I didn’t like him at all when I was a kid. I think he is really really gross on his own but his hole in chest actually makes him worse.
I like Mammoths though, as a kid I LOVED dinosaurs (I still love dinosaurs), and I hated prehistoric mammals except the wooly mammoth and the sabretooth tiger. Oh, and I kind of liked this one animal that was like a prehistoric Armadillo, it had a club tail I think like a Ankylosaurus which probably really helped me like it. I dont remember its name, someone help me out with that too.
I think its great that Mogul is a mammoth and I firmly believe in his potential as a character and the possibility of him having a satisfying visual design. I have some vague notion that he is kind of like Marvel’s Apocalypse in that he is ancient and powerful and I like this too.