Wednesday 13 October 2010

Metal Barbarian Dinosaur Comics #1: Dream That Impossible Dream

Well, my first comic - well, not my first, but the first with any degree of professionalism, and certainly the first I like enough to put on the internet - is online, along with work from my fellows, at the Greenock Comics Book page!  Be sure to check out 'The Gun,' the worst - by which I mean best - superhero ever.

But however will you know what it is, when you don't click?


For all those who wanted more, youse gots its!


Behind the Scenes

I hate that the dinosaurs all died.  Obviously if they didn't, there's no guarantees humanity would ever exist, and certainly the individual I call me wouldn't.  But it still sticks in the craw that these wonderful creatures are all dead and gone.

... Or are they?

I decided in my little universe that no, the dinosaurs didn't die out.  Well, not all of them.

For a visionary Diplodocus (contrary to popular scientific theory, I posit that my favourite dinosaur species not only survived the Jurassic, but gained sentience, intelligence and eventually, civilization) saw the great meteor crashing through the solar system. And do you know what he said?  He said no.  He would not accept his fate to be destroyed by some cosmic whim.  He would not allow his people to die without a fight.

And so the storied tale of how Doc saved the dinosaurs would be passed down the aeons, as the dinosaurs lived and flourished on their new homeworld, even to modern times.  Would Man and Dinosaur finally meet?  Only time shall tell...

6 comments:

  1. Ha, that's actually pretty rad. :)

    I wasn't a regular viewer of the Dinosaurs sitcom, but apparently it ended on something of a downer, with a nascent Ice Age and imminent extinction.

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  2. Robert J. Sawyer had something of a similar idea in his book Farseer, complete with plans to build a giant spaceship to save the dinosaurs from extinction. However, his novel included an utterly bizarre dinosaur sex scene told in more than clinical terms, fulfilling rule 34 without even being on the internet.

    (I am sorry, Mr. Sawyer, but there is no way to make two dinosaurs coupling erotic, no matter how hard you try.)

    This is much, much better. I eagerly await the metal and barbarians to join these dinosaurs.

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  3. very interesting but another interesting idea was the one about rats and mice civilization...
    maybe the next comic...?
    Francisco...

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  4. Let's try out my new comment method...

    Ha, that's actually pretty rad. :)

    Cheers, Scott!

    I wasn't a regular viewer of the Dinosaurs sitcom, but apparently it ended on something of a downer, with a nascent Ice Age and imminent extinction.

    It was a needlessly cruel and bleak ending, where it was clear that the family we followed would starve to death. Even the baby. I mean, the actualy K-T extinction took tens of thousands of years: Dinosaurs made it look like a single generation. I mean, environmental messages are fine, but that was just counter-productive for a family show.

    Robert J. Sawyer had something of a similar idea in his book Farseer, complete with plans to build a giant spaceship to save the dinosaurs from extinction. However, his novel included an utterly bizarre dinosaur sex scene told in more than clinical terms, fulfilling rule 34 without even being on the internet.

    (I am sorry, Mr. Sawyer, but there is no way to make two dinosaurs coupling erotic, no matter how hard you try.)


    Says you! (No, I've never thought of dinosaurs in that way, and am incredibly creeped out by the idea anyone even tried to)

    This is much, much better. I eagerly await the metal and barbarians to join these dinosaurs.

    Thanks!

    very interesting but another interesting idea was the one about rats and mice civilization...
    maybe the next comic...?


    Oh, I'll definitely be doing that too, Francisco. I have a ton of different ideas sketched out: more Mice & Sorcery, Robert E. Howard, tongue-in-cheek revisions of Scottish history, and of course dinosaurs.

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  5. Al, this is really cool! I have been an artist and a writer for many years and yet the comic book format is one that I have great difficulty with. Can't seem to wrap my head around it. So I congratulate you on producing such an awesome page. Can't wait to see more.

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  6. Hi MD, for some reason I never noticed your comment. Well, thanks very much!

    The comic format is a tough one to crack, but the course I've been attending has been most illuminating, and I've been having some great conversations about style, composition and history with everyone there. Hopefully my others will be up sooner rather than later.

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