Warwick Goble's Martian Invasion Terror – War of the Worlds 1897
Alien invasion technology looms on the horizon as H.G. Wells' Martian war machines — tripod fighting machines armed with heat-rays — cast dark silhouettes across a smoldering sky. Two men in Victorian dress stand in the foreground, one shielding his face in abject terror, overwhelmed by the advancing extraterrestrial menace. This haunting wash illustration captures the existential dread of humanity's first confrontation with superior alien technology, rendered in Warwick Goble's atmospheric tonal style for the original serialized publication.
Crikey, those Martian machines on the horizon are giving me absolute chills — that bloke covering his face says it all! It's not all tentacles and ray-guns but the dread creeping across that sky is something awful.
