Mesozoic Mind

It's baaack! I finally got to finish this Marvel-created Dinosaur Rennaisance-era series, or at least the third issue.  The lineup for this book, titled  Bone-Heads and Duck-Bills , goes this time: Ornithopods Hadrosaurs Pachycephalosaurs Mammals The Cretaceous period A soneone who actually likes ornithopods, I'm going to like this book. I'm just not going to cover the informational segments today. They're boring to read for me, and they drag. I may do them seperately instead. Starting with - Oh damn! The colours on this art! Colourist Euan Peters really deserves props here for the bold ones of the lava in the otherwise dark setting, and the same goes for artist Steve Hambridge. Meanwhile, the textboxes really do a great job of conveying an apocalyptic feel and the desperation the creatures face. I wouldn't expect anything less from the esteemed Dan Abnett, best known for his own tales of apocalyptic fiction elsewhere. Anyways, this segment takes place in Mid-Cretac...

22 years ago in 1999, in the cultural age of Jurassic Park , the BBC would air a seminal work: it revolutionized how so many people thought about dinosaurs, computer animation, and the genre itself: Walking with Dinosaurs . Across six episodes, we got 28 minutes each of dinosaurs acting as animals in real life do and not as monsters too many of us perceive them as, with not a single cutaway to humanity (unless its the american cut on Discovery Channel, but that's beside point) like the nature documentaries also put out by the beeb's Natural History Unit, all stately narrated by thespian Kenneth Branagh. It even spawned several follow ups that if anything improved on the things that made it good, from sequel series Beasts and Monsters  that showcased the other eras of Earth, Nigel Marvin's Chased by Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters  that gave the show the Steve Irwin treatment with an onscreen human host, and Robert Winston's Walking with Cavemen . But one must ask: which epi...