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It was so cold that month, the Yeti come out to say hi

A yeti said hello to Silent Kimbly & friends in her web comic on a cold day last December.

DC's Snowman

A recent comic book, Justice League Adventures # 12, featured the Snowman as one of the Cold Warriors, a group of ice-themed villains led by Mr. Freeze:






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So who is this Snowman of the DC Universe?

Why, it's Klaus Kristin, the hybrid son of a male yeti and a human woman.

The Snowman's first appearance was Batman # 337:



Later, he would fight Batman in Tibet in issue # 522 and presumably die.

However, he mysteriously shows up on the cover of Supergirl # 7, but I'm not sure he's even featured in the story.

And now he's back even more mysteriously as a member of Mr. Freeze's gang fighting the modern-day Justice League.

Rejected Beasts

Two artists chose the yeti as the subject of their submission to Jacob Covey's follow-up to Beasts!:



1) Jason Raish




2) Steven Russell Black


The other submitters' work that didn't make the cut have been collected here.

More Zelda Yeti

A better look at Mr. and Mrs. Yeti from the new Zelda game.

Not Yeti Friday - L'abominable homme fromage

I'm on some kind of French kick.

Véronique D., alias Miss Gally made this picture.

I asked my friend Nate, who knows French:

Do you know what the Abominable Cheese Man is saying? I mean, besides the obligatory "RAAAAA"?

Nate: The monster is saying "raclette" (RAAAAA-clette), which is a melted cheese dish (not as melted as fondu, like still stringy, cooked in little pans), usually served with bread, meats, and small pickles called cornichons. It also refers to some types of cheese that are in the dish.

Thanks, Nate!

L'Abominable homme des neiges

On the French Drawmadaire sketch blog, the theme for one week was L'Abominable homme des neiges. These are two of my personal favorites, but see the rest here.



Nicolas "Nils" Rivet can be acknowledged for creating this very kid-friendly painting. (Note: The rest of his work isn't necessarily kid-friendly).




And on the not-so-kid-friendly front, Mikl Olivier made this homage to Tintin.

Olivier explains in his post that he chose to make his yeti closer to one of Jean-Louis Mourier's trolls from the French comic "Trolls de Troy" (example here), rather than keep him as the timid, kind-hearted chimpanzee of the original Hergé.

Here is what the yeti is saying: "Mille sabords!"

This is "A Thousand Portholes!" in French, and is a shortened form of "Mille millions de mille sabords!" (Ten Millions of Thousand Portholes!), something the Tintin character Captain Haddock said all the time as a curse in the original French version. A 'sabord', as I am led to understand, is a hole in the hull of old wooden ships through which the guns were fired.

In the English version, this bit of real nautical slang was changed to "Shiver me Timbers!".

So now you know.

Hey, if you've got a sketch blog, please consider making the theme "L'Abominable homme des neiges", and then send me a link. Would love to see what people come up with.