Mesozoic Mind

Hello and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind. Today, we're going to look at comics juggernaut Marvel, but rather then looking at their fictional saurian characters (like Devil Dinosaur ), we're gonna take a look at a limited 4-part series from 1992 an from defunct Epic Comics,  Dinosaurs: A Celebration . It was released at the height of the Dinosaur Renaissance just before Jurassic Park began, and in the Dark Age of Comic Books. Palaeo-artist Steve White serves as editor for the series (and insert J. Jonah Jameson joke here). ( Link for you to read series and the first issue ) The basics of the series is that each are divided between encyclopaedia-style paragraphs about groups of dinosaurs with basic illustrations and four comic sequences about dinosaurs (and occasionally otherprehistoriclife) based off each subject presented in previous paragraphs, each written by a Marvel writer and illustrator of the time (usually the british side). With that in mind, the format of this review wi...

When you mention dinosaurs and New Zealand, what's the first thing that comes to mind that combines both? Some would say director Peter Jackson and the criminally underrated beasts of his King Kong movie. Others would think of the so-called living fossils of the archipelago from plants to the Tuatara. Still others think of the avian kind of dinosaur from the Cenozoic and by extension the Maori people's time, from the iconic Kiwi to the extinct Moas and the Poukai Eagle . While al of those are valid to think, not many would associate New Zealand with the non-avian dinosaurs, since there aren't really that many fossil sites in the country preserving them. That brings us to this documentary,  The Lost Dinosaurs of New Zealand  from 2002. This Discovery Channel documentary chronicles one of the few major mesozoic fossil sites and the only only one preserving non-avian dinosaurs in the country however fragmentary they are, the people who discovered it, and the implications it ba...