Well the URL of the comic says Cloverfield too.

Pretty bizarre and really fun viral marketing here. A lot of people (even those who don't worship Abrams like I do) are hyped for this movie.

What does it all mean?

Clearly they want to go franchise...

If I had to guess from all of the Cloverfield clues, trailers, and Google-knowledge of giant squid...

Cloverfield is either the Sargasso Sea or the Bermuda Triangle or the place where all of Manhattan's garbage gets dumped at sea... or ALL of these locations around the world. And giant squids have mutated within (and because of) these toxic floating garbage dumps over the past 50 years. Perhaps because of the action of environmentalists, the "flow of garbage" has been reduced and/or stopped, and now they're really hungry?

FYI - The giant squid, or Architeuthis dux (ar-keh-TOOTH-us duks), owes its nickname to its jumbo size--females can measure 18 meters (60 feet). The colossal creature has long been considered one of the great unsolved mysteries of science. That's because no one really knows where or how this elusive animal lives... with eyes as biug as soccer balls... ...muscular tentacles, which are lined with circular suckers, to capture food. Scientists also know that cephalopods are the most sophisticated of the invertebrates (animals without a backbone); they are very intelligent.

So these now extremely oversized and hungry critters have developed a taste for humans. Maybe the melting ice caps and/or ocean current changes have cooled the ocean's surface water enough to allow the deep water giant squids to "visit" the shallow areas around the world?

The male octopus uses a specialized arm called a hectocotylus to transfer sperm to the mantle cavity of a receptive... perhaps the monster(s) in Cloverfield "bite" humans and inject their mutated sperm into humans who then explode with baby monster squids soon thereafter?

Both squids and octopuses have blue blood! Their blood is this colour because they use an oxygen-carrying molecule in their blood that contains copper... isn't the Statue of Liberty made of copper? ...squids move by "jet propulsion", a pretty fast way to get around the planet if you are a superhuge giant mutated squid(s)... ...they have beaks for tearing apart food...

Squids have eight arms lined with suckers and two specialized tentacles that they use to reach out and capture prey... in the New York Subway? If the monster uses the Manhattan Road Tunnels or sewers to access the subways?

And they pierce their prey, injecting poison that causes paralysis. They then release salivary enzymes, loosening the meat... aka Humans?

Some squids live in large schools, others are solitary. Some squids school when young and become solitary later in life. Maybe a school of garbage-mutated young (but still huge) squids attack New York?

The female squid may build a wall of rocks to seal off the den and will remain in the den until just before she dies, after the eggs have hatched... maybe Mom helps attack New York?

Most poisons produced by octopuses and squids are too weak to harm humans... but mutated poisons might?

They can change colour and create countless intricate patterns on their bodies to blend with their surroundings... maybe that's what the "ghosted" images are in the trailers and posters? And...Bioluminescence: Some squids produce light. In dark waters, this diverts attention by disguising their contours...

Squids can expel a dark cloud of ink... maybe what is seen around the Statue of Liberty just before "heads roll"?

Some squids seek protection in numbers, making it difficult for a predator ( or prey, like the Army) to focus the attack (or defence).

Extremely sensitive to touch... to hunt in the Subway tunnels? AND taste receptors all over their bodies and are as much as 10 to 1000 times more sensitive to taste than humans... mmmm TASTY humans. AND squids have excellent vision, but may be colour-blind. Some have a 360 degree range of vision with eyes that are very similar in structure to human eyes. AND Squids register smell in small pits located beneath the eyes.

In traditional narratives, a creature called a Kraken seized large boats and sank them... Like in this movie?

THESE ARE WILD GUESSES ON MY PART. Cheers.

The folks over at the unfiction forums have been working on translating...

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Theres another new pic at 1-18-08.com. Looks like someone is fishing or collecting samples, may be in the area from the last picture. Im guessing they just hurt the creature and now its pissed and probably headed our way!

We've completed the translation of this first part.
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