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...

Hello and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind . However, today we are not tackling dinosaurs or even the Mesozoic for the most part. rather, we are delving into a different group of fantastical creatures, one from our own imaginations. The name?   Fantastic Beasts™: The Wonder of Nature . On June 18 (after a week-long delay) I went to the Royal Ontario Museum for a temporary exhibit about mythical creatures and real ones and how they intersect, using Harry Po- sorry, the Wizarding World as inspiration, courtesy of  She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-cuz-of-Issues-Beyond-Scope-Of-This . It's all told through both taxidermy specimens from the NHM, props from the movies, and replica models of the creatures. The basic layout of it the exhibit goes like this: the first section is about mythical creatures of European Mythology and their inspirations, like how trading Narwhal tusks created Unicorns, or how manatees inspired unicorns.  The second section is about various animal behaviours ...