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Paleo: Tales of the Late Cretaceous is surely a good comic book if
you're big on dinosaurs. However, I haven't been for many years, so
no good review for you! Bwuhahaha! (sorry, my "job" here is boring,
I like to go on the occasional power trip).
Paleo is a six-issue limited series published by Zeromayo Studios.
It is written and drawn by Jim Lawson, inked and lettered by Peter
Laird, and the cover is designed and drawn by Jim Lawson and
painted by Michael Dooney. I remembered to throw in all that
important stuff this time. Now, on to the fun!
While well-enough drawn (pictures are nicely detailed, have good
proportions, etc) the story is booooring. Issue 1, which I picked up
this week in a fit of desperation as the shelves were nearly bare
and I needed something to review, tells the story of a young
Triceratops. While the story is obviously meant to be serious, it
gives me "Land Before Time" flashbacks. If you're gonna tell a
dinosaur story, make it about an adult or something.
Anyway, poor nameless youthful triceratops gets separated from
her herd and faces numerous trials and tribulations, as many as
you can fit into a 24 page comic that only has 1 page with more
than 3 panels. In the end, she gets back to her herd (yeah, I gave the end away, so sue me!),
proving that this will obviously be a series of 6 unrelated dinosaur
stories. Since there was no cliffhanger ending, I feel absolutely no need
to buy the next issue. It wasn't even stupid enough to have good ridicule
value. It was just plain boring.
I'm sure any and all wannabe paleontologists out there will enjoy this
comic. It doesn't use a lot of big, scientific words, so it's also a good idea
for the dino-loving kid in your life. But fans of super hero, drama, or
fantasy (or manga, or funny comics, or any other genre I'm forgetting
about) who couldnt care less about the boring exploits of a normal
dinosaur should save their cash for more interesting books.
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