I’ve been racking my brain trying to come up with a good character design for a familiar trope in comics. I’m trying to create an alien overlord similar to Starro or a hive mind like the Sequids in Invincible which control others and wants nothing more than to take over a planet.
My only design limitations is that I prefer they’re male (or huge). I’m trying to evoke a squid/cephalopod, but I’m not dead-set on that. I already have a queen bee character with a similar concept (except she’s a human mutant) and I would like to avoid bees in the design or recognizably terrestrial insects (trying to avoid ants, too). Alien insects should be fine though. Do you creative people have any suggestions? Thinking of making them a Mind Control/X Dom but again not married to that either as long as they appear somewhat alien in nature as that’s what their origin should reflect (natural/science/mut/tech).