Giant Raft Spiders

This (click here) was the story that inspired this set of arachnophobic strips. I heard about it on a nature programme on BBC Radio 4 while driving home from a theatre rehearsal one night, and it set me thinking, how happy am I to have these monsters next door? Especially when they're giant spiders that have been hand reared by a mad scientist. Money spiders are great fun but these are hulking four-inch brutes that can walk on water. There is a stream at the bottom of my garden - I don't want these things walking over, entering my house and chewing my face off! (I may be exaggerating slightly about the face-chewing).