Mesozoic Mind

Welcome back to Mesozoic Mind, the blog where I look at all kinds of dinosaur-related media (but mostly documentaries with the occasional book) We're continuing Marvel's 1992 miniseries of dinosaur comics, Dinosaurs: A Celebration  with the second issue ( read here - at your own risk ), this issue focusing on small theropods and sauropods. First, observe the Oviraptor (drawn by John Bolton) on the cover, and boy its excellent. it really nails the downright alien bird feel that oviraptorids had, helped by it resembling a macaw due to the stripes on the chees and general head colours. It's even got feathers on it, not too bad for 1992. The detail also deserves mention: notive the holes and scratches in the beak, or the texture of the feathers. Not to sure about the wide tongue though, as I lean more to it having a thin, immobile tongue. The weirdly vampiric-looking teeth (while accurate) are also off to me. The encyclopaedia chapters cover the following topics. Unlike last ti...

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...