Oh, I've no complaints about the "squee"ing. You're the author, and this situation justifies any manner of schoolgirlish noises of excitement (it may have also reduced you to a plush chibi); whatever imperfections this rendition (*) might have, it has the inarguable and overwhelming merit of being printed and seen by lots of people.
Naturally, different artists working in different media and with different genre conventions will produce different results. To coin a phrase, "alternately canonical." (Consider Trek TOS vs. TAS.) But when details that don't need to be adjusted differ, my eyebrow goes up and my tongue starts clucking. (Consider cover artists for Pern who give dragons mammal-style eyes, or turn fire lizards into wyverns.)
I'm already doodling some revised Molothos ideas incorporating these arms (anomalocaris-like) and leg-scales. (But it's harder to connect the pieces when somebody else isn't hogging the frame.)
(*) Do you have the artist's name? If not, we'll have to call this "the Tor Japanese edition" interpretation of the characters.
Re: An alternative illustrator comments at length
Naturally, different artists working in different media and with different genre conventions will produce different results. To coin a phrase, "alternately canonical." (Consider Trek TOS vs. TAS.) But when details that don't need to be adjusted differ, my eyebrow goes up and my tongue starts clucking. (Consider cover artists for Pern who give dragons mammal-style eyes, or turn fire lizards into wyverns.)
I'm already doodling some revised Molothos ideas incorporating these arms (anomalocaris-like) and leg-scales. (But it's harder to connect the pieces when somebody else isn't hogging the frame.)
(*) Do you have the artist's name? If not, we'll have to call this "the Tor Japanese edition" interpretation of the characters.