Dinosaurs: A Celebration review - part two
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...