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Динозавры атакуют!
Они вернулись! Спустя 30 лет после выхода оригинальной серии карточек "Динозавры атакуют!" от Topps, прогрызшей дыру в карманах школьников, возвращается комикс от Eclipse от создателя серии Гэри Джерани: комикс впервые издан полностью! Художником серии стал Герб Тримп, а колористом - Эрл Норем.
Открыв этот комикс, вы гарантированно получите залп удовольствия, сравнимого с чувством неподдельной ностальгии, пробирающей до костей при пролистывании найденного на чердаке любимого с детства и незаслуженно забытого палп-романа или просмотре хоррор-фильма, что ждал своего часа в кассетнике отцовского видеомагнитофона с самых 90-х.
Открыв этот комикс, вы гарантированно получите залп удовольствия, сравнимого с чувством неподдельной ностальгии, пробирающей до костей при пролистывании найденного на чердаке любимого с детства и незаслуженно забытого палп-романа или просмотре хоррор-фильма, что ждал своего часа в кассетнике отцовского видеомагнитофона с самых 90-х.
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136 pages, Paperback
First published February 25, 2014
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Gary Gerani
72 books11 followersGary Gerani is a screenwriter, author, noted film and TV historian, and children's product developer.
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August 9, 2019
I remember when this card series came out, and I've always been a big Mars Attacks fan, so I admittedly have a soft spot for this series. This is 1950s style B Grade Sci Fi fun. If you are looking for serious horror science fiction. you won't find it here. If you're looking for a fun read, however, you will find that.
In this series the dinosaurs are all rampaging murdering beasts as even herbivores like Brachiosaurus,Triceratops and Stegosaurus are flesh eating killers. The art is good, especially the painted sections as it mimics the card series perfectly. Some if not all is by the original artist, so that makes sense. The story is far out, but what else would you expect from this type of series.
Overall I really enjoy this series, but as I said, readers should be cautioned as to what they're getting into. In other words, if you like this kinda stuff, then this is the kinda stuff you like.
In this series the dinosaurs are all rampaging murdering beasts as even herbivores like Brachiosaurus,Triceratops and Stegosaurus are flesh eating killers. The art is good, especially the painted sections as it mimics the card series perfectly. Some if not all is by the original artist, so that makes sense. The story is far out, but what else would you expect from this type of series.
Overall I really enjoy this series, but as I said, readers should be cautioned as to what they're getting into. In other words, if you like this kinda stuff, then this is the kinda stuff you like.
July 28, 2019
Well, the art style nailed that of the trading cards. And it used some of the card images in the story. And channeled the era the cards were released in. But that's about all the good I have to say for it. It's a silly story about looking backwards in time somehow bringing dinosaurs to life, and it takes WAY too long to actually get to the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are basically just monsters left to rampage, ignoring anything that might reflect what they actually might behave as. And all of the Earth-side stories are brief interludes without any real attachment to any of the characters (aside from a journalist who straddles both aspects of the story - its space and planet pieces). And for something that was supposedly snarky and took some inspiration from the Garbage Pail Kids, it's remarkably tame in its cynicism and black humor. Instead it goes for the gore, but rarely even in interesting ways - seeing people being bitten by dinosaurs does in fact get old.
It's an interesting idea, but a terrible story, and the art isn't strong enough to get over that. Unless you actually collected the cards back in the 80's, there's really nothing here to recommend.
It's an interesting idea, but a terrible story, and the art isn't strong enough to get over that. Unless you actually collected the cards back in the 80's, there's really nothing here to recommend.
February 6, 2025
Dinosaurs attack! Is dumb. But that makes it awesome.
Being just a more structured way to explain whatever is going on in the original collectible cards, this story is just a hodgepodge of silly ideas and art styles that I can help but enjoy.
Just like the other dinosaurs alive in the modern world story. This book is an allegory to how sometimes we must question not if we can do something but if we should.
Dr. Elias Thorne, on board a space station has developed a breakthrough invention. A contraption that can replicate earth to a more primitive state to see what were dinosaurs like, but some strange spirit of sorts messes with his technology and unleashes the beasts in the modern world were humanity must fight the old creatures to decide who keeps the planet.
The artstyle when the dinosaurs are on scene is insanely good, too bad it wasn't used for the main story as well.
Speaking of that, the story is pure nonsense. It's mostly an excuse for the mayhem and spectacle of the dinosaurs rampaging over earth.
Being just a more structured way to explain whatever is going on in the original collectible cards, this story is just a hodgepodge of silly ideas and art styles that I can help but enjoy.
Just like the other dinosaurs alive in the modern world story. This book is an allegory to how sometimes we must question not if we can do something but if we should.
Dr. Elias Thorne, on board a space station has developed a breakthrough invention. A contraption that can replicate earth to a more primitive state to see what were dinosaurs like, but some strange spirit of sorts messes with his technology and unleashes the beasts in the modern world were humanity must fight the old creatures to decide who keeps the planet.
The artstyle when the dinosaurs are on scene is insanely good, too bad it wasn't used for the main story as well.
Speaking of that, the story is pure nonsense. It's mostly an excuse for the mayhem and spectacle of the dinosaurs rampaging over earth.
October 1, 2021
A fun concept that never really reaches it's full potential.
I'm a huge fan of the trading cards, and when I discovered there was a graphic novel adaptation I was super excited. It starts off cheesy enough, with lots of fun images of dinosaurs tearing people apart. But somehow it never really got to be any fun. And despite an initial wave of dinosaur terror, I felt completely underwhelmed at the amount of dinosaur carnage in the later issues.
The story was fine, but it wasn't quite hokey enough to be fun, and it wasn't quite good enough to be good.
If you like the premise it's still worth reading if you can get it for super cheap. Thankfully you can get the digital version of this for under $5.
I'm a huge fan of the trading cards, and when I discovered there was a graphic novel adaptation I was super excited. It starts off cheesy enough, with lots of fun images of dinosaurs tearing people apart. But somehow it never really got to be any fun. And despite an initial wave of dinosaur terror, I felt completely underwhelmed at the amount of dinosaur carnage in the later issues.
The story was fine, but it wasn't quite hokey enough to be fun, and it wasn't quite good enough to be good.
If you like the premise it's still worth reading if you can get it for super cheap. Thankfully you can get the digital version of this for under $5.
June 4, 2019
Gory Dinosaur Action
This is a decent comic about dinosaurs being suddenly returned to earth and deciding to take it back. The best thing about this is that some of the art is truly glorious. Other parts are just gory.
This is probably best for thirteen year olds who want to see people and dino guts, though if the description interests you, you'll probably like it. Overall, it's not that memorable, with moments of artistic genius.
This is a decent comic about dinosaurs being suddenly returned to earth and deciding to take it back. The best thing about this is that some of the art is truly glorious. Other parts are just gory.
This is probably best for thirteen year olds who want to see people and dino guts, though if the description interests you, you'll probably like it. Overall, it's not that memorable, with moments of artistic genius.
December 1, 2019
Somewhere between a 2 and a 3 for me. An interesting idea to begin with, but the plot tended towards a bit more ridiculous as it went on, a bit too much so for me. Interesting also that is marketed as for 12+, but some of the images seem quite graphic to me, but then again, likes of Ren and Stimpy perhaps weren't too different, though that show wasn't for my taste either. It did tie of all the plot points well at least, answering any questions that were in there.
April 28, 2021
Awesomely Gory Dinosaurs
I have to say the writing was a little boring and dated but the dinos were so lifelike! I loved all the art and the granny shooting the Dino from her porch that was funny! I wonder if there is more?
I have to say the writing was a little boring and dated but the dinos were so lifelike! I loved all the art and the granny shooting the Dino from her porch that was funny! I wonder if there is more?
August 22, 2018
Good comic
I like the storyine. Little gory. Fantastic artwork. Not really into comic books on Kindle. Just too annoying with all the tapping.
I like the storyine. Little gory. Fantastic artwork. Not really into comic books on Kindle. Just too annoying with all the tapping.
December 31, 2018
Lots of fun. Very gruesome in spots (got a Mars Attacks! vibe from it -- considering they're both from Topps, that makes sense).
Loved the art, the horror, the stupidity (of certain characters).
Loved the art, the horror, the stupidity (of certain characters).
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June 18, 2022Old school Dinosaurs.
Awesome. Old school Dinosaurs. I love to read this. D I N O S A U R S. 🦖🦕🐊👌
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Awesome. Old school Dinosaurs. I love to read this. D I N O S A U R S. 🦖🦕🐊👌
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April 3, 2023
I liked the bit where the dinosaurs got their faces sucked off by the time beam.
March 23, 2017
A bizarrely sincere take on 50s-era B-movie disaster films, Dinosaurs Attack! (an adaptation of the trading card series of the same name, very much inspired by the endearingly popular Mars Attacks!) is a wretchedly violent comedy-horror book that represents dinosaur-laden carnage in ways that are perhaps downright cruel. Those with squeamish constitutions need not apply, certainly.
The edge is taken off, though, by the pages upon pages of expository dialog; at first I was sort of down on the whole affair, considering I thought we were here for bloody images of dinosaurs killing and being killed by hapless denizens of modern-day Earth, but the more I ruminate on it, the more I'm pretty sure the book wouldn't hold together nearly as well without it. There's a jarring shift of tone from "plot" to "action" - especially since the art for the dinosaur sequences are painted, not inked - and the action is repulsively juvenile, in a way that reminds me of MAD Magazine, or maybe Art Spiegelman's Garbage Pail Kids. Which is not to say they aren't creative, or don't have any merit as a work; quite the opposite, the push-pull between gory, indiscriminate acts of giant lizards tearing the humans at their feet apart, and scientists arguing about the how such a thing even occurred in the first place, is perfectly reverential of the era of filmmaking of which it's satirizing.
It might be too dense for its target audience to really appreciate, but this book is really quite the throwback, warts and all. The gleeful malevolence is reaching something of a nostalgic quality itself, too - when written in the 90s, the moral outrage around violent, squishy, gooey content for kids had reached its peak, and series like this, aforementioned Garbage Pail Kids, Ren & Stimpy, were incredibly prevalent. Nowadays, media made for pre-teen boys seems so much cleaner in comparison, and unless there's some revival I haven't been made aware of, this sort of "your parents will hate it!" attitude towards comic books has faded away. So it's a 50s throwback, and a 90s throwback; I might be too soft on account of that, admittedly, but I think Dinosaurs Attack! does a fine job.
The edge is taken off, though, by the pages upon pages of expository dialog; at first I was sort of down on the whole affair, considering I thought we were here for bloody images of dinosaurs killing and being killed by hapless denizens of modern-day Earth, but the more I ruminate on it, the more I'm pretty sure the book wouldn't hold together nearly as well without it. There's a jarring shift of tone from "plot" to "action" - especially since the art for the dinosaur sequences are painted, not inked - and the action is repulsively juvenile, in a way that reminds me of MAD Magazine, or maybe Art Spiegelman's Garbage Pail Kids. Which is not to say they aren't creative, or don't have any merit as a work; quite the opposite, the push-pull between gory, indiscriminate acts of giant lizards tearing the humans at their feet apart, and scientists arguing about the how such a thing even occurred in the first place, is perfectly reverential of the era of filmmaking of which it's satirizing.
It might be too dense for its target audience to really appreciate, but this book is really quite the throwback, warts and all. The gleeful malevolence is reaching something of a nostalgic quality itself, too - when written in the 90s, the moral outrage around violent, squishy, gooey content for kids had reached its peak, and series like this, aforementioned Garbage Pail Kids, Ren & Stimpy, were incredibly prevalent. Nowadays, media made for pre-teen boys seems so much cleaner in comparison, and unless there's some revival I haven't been made aware of, this sort of "your parents will hate it!" attitude towards comic books has faded away. So it's a 50s throwback, and a 90s throwback; I might be too soft on account of that, admittedly, but I think Dinosaurs Attack! does a fine job.
September 8, 2015
Fun if you liked the card series.
April 24, 2016
deliciously awful...true B-grade horror movie stuff here.
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