Mesozoic Mind

Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind, the blog that has reviewed Discovery Channel documentaries a bit too much at the expense of others and so will try to stay away from them a bit. Today, right after we hit 1000 views in a single month for the first time, we will tackle the 2015 British documentary  Dinosaur Britain , hosted by presenter Ellie Harrison, travelling to various locales around the country, starting wirh visiting Dippy the Diplodocus at London's Natural History Museum (this was before it was taken off display) and waxing about how she much like other brits became enamoured with dinosaurs because of it. However, that's not what Dinosaur Britain is best known for: rather, it is that the dinosaurs themselves are presented roaming about modern England and scaring its people, much like fellow ITV dino-show  Primeval , with Ellie often encountering them. To start things off, we are first shown a Baryonyx  wandering the halls of the Natural History Museum...

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...