SciFi and Fantasy Art: Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic

Hmmm... I don’t think the dread ’cuteness factor’ has been defeated yet. With that big, round head, huge dark eyes and the llittle triangular beak, he still looks like Tweety Bird standing in a hole. Clearly, Wells did not have much of a visual feel for his imagery. While the story he tells compells us to keep turning pages, There are a number of self-contradictory details the narrator gives us. The crash site, for example, of the first cylinder is, I feel, just about impossible to illustrate while still including all the information given. Once you begin to assemble all the detail into a three dimensional object, the scene all falls apart (email me for specifics on this if you give a hoot). Perhaps there is a straight-forward interpretation of the information that I’m failing to assimilate (Help!).
Though he tells us the visage of the Martians evokes disgust and horror, the specifics he gives us to work with in illustrating them still comes off too similar to Tweety’s head.
-Larry