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X-VENTURE Dunia Dinosaur I / Dinosaur Kingdom I #8
恐竜キングダム(8) 空の王者、決定戦!
翼竜が空を支配していた白亜紀。食料を探しに出かけたＸベンチャー調査隊は翼竜トゥプクスアラの卵を食べてしまう。親のトゥプクスアラに襲われるレインたち。そこに史上最大の翼竜ケツァルコアトルスが現れて、翼竜同士の戦いが始まった！ 翼竜の背中に乗って、アクロバティックな空中戦を繰り広げるレイン、ショーン、ストーンの３人の運命は!? 生物の進化がわかる章末図鑑も充実！
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First published May 1, 2012
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87 books2 followersChoo, Yuki Chung, Komura, Chan Jair Fong, Samu, Veon, Vezill, MaoXian, Weno, Tangdou, How How, Usagi Yuu, and Mai
Under the guidance of SLAIUM and REDCODE, AIR TEAM is the production crew behind the “X-VENTURE: Dinosaur Kingdom” series. Core team members include: Choo, Yuki Chung, Komura, Chan Jair Fong, Samu, Veon and Vezill. Bursting with creativity and perseverance, the team has earned many fans who regard the “X-Venture” series as one of the best Malaysian-made children’s comics.
As the pioneering comic production team, they do everything with an A grade in mind so they can be a role model for future teams. The team chose the word “air” (oxygen) as “air” is an element vital for human survival.
AIR TEAM’s promise is to give their readers the best comics!
Under the guidance of SLAIUM and REDCODE, AIR TEAM is the production crew behind the “X-VENTURE: Dinosaur Kingdom” series. Core team members include: Choo, Yuki Chung, Komura, Chan Jair Fong, Samu, Veon and Vezill. Bursting with creativity and perseverance, the team has earned many fans who regard the “X-Venture” series as one of the best Malaysian-made children’s comics.
As the pioneering comic production team, they do everything with an A grade in mind so they can be a role model for future teams. The team chose the word “air” (oxygen) as “air” is an element vital for human survival.
AIR TEAM’s promise is to give their readers the best comics!
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April 12, 2021
4/5/2021 Full review tk at TheFrumiousConsortium.net.
4/12/2021 As with the other Explorers titles produced by Malaysian company GempakStarz and distributed in America by Papercutz, Dinosaur Explorers is filled with the trademark coupling of gorgeous art with truly informative and educational text breaks. And while certain things don't necessarily lend themselves well to cultural translations, others fall flat in any situation -- or at least any situation in the year 2021, as we're hopefully coming out of a global pandemic and should be thinking of how we can be kinder and more respectful of one another as human beings.
I am referring, of course, to the early gag of Rain and the professor, two of the most important characters in this book, deciding to not only spy on the two female members of the Dinosaur Explorers team as they bathe in hot springs but also to make derogatory comments as to the 13 year-old's body not being developed enough to be worth spying on. While the feminine duo is depicted as being clever in the ways they foil these pervs, can we not normalize that kind of misogynistic behavior in the first place, especially in people we're meant to root for? It's deeply disrespectful, truly trash behavior, and I'm sick of seeing it in mainstream Asian comics.
The rest of the book isn't terrible. The overall premise is that the team has accidentally traveled back in time and gotten stuck, able only to hop forward several hundred years or so with each jump. Given how long dinosaurs roamed the earth, this means that they spend a lot of time studying and trying to avoid being eaten by same. This volume focuses on the period when dinosaurs took to the skies, examining the known science behind what we believe of the time and providing a fanciful tale to bring home to readers the majesty and danger of these prehistoric creatures.
The story follows Rain as he and the two other teenage boys of the group, smart Sean and strong Stone, head off to gather food for the party, aided by their robot supercomputer Little S. Trying to gather eggs only gets them into trouble, so they eventually find their way to the sea to fish. Fortunately, seafood is plentiful, but amassing such a large amount draws the attention of predators. The boys will have to battle their way home, discovering unexpected allies through kindness and friendship.
It's a fairly standard adventure, with the art really elevating the proceedings, but I just can't get over the attempt to normalize the objectification of the two female members of the party. There's such a fine line between disrespecting a person's privacy and disrespecting their personal space and dignity. I'm so tired of entertainment that pretends that boys being hamsap boys is okay, or that the girls subject to this don't feel threatened and unsafe. I can tell you from firsthand experience that stuff like this totally makes us feel threatened and unsafe, and that not even the adrenaline rush of foiling pervs makes up for the degradation of being treated like sexual objects against our wills in the first place.
Maybe the other books in the series have better lessons, but unless it erases its misogyny, this is not a book I would ever hand my kids.
Dinosaur Explorers Vol. 8: Lord of the Skies by Redcode, Albbie & Air Team will be published tomorrow April 13 2021 by Papercutz Press and is available for pre-order now from Bookshop!. Want it now? For the Kindle version, click here.
4/12/2021 As with the other Explorers titles produced by Malaysian company GempakStarz and distributed in America by Papercutz, Dinosaur Explorers is filled with the trademark coupling of gorgeous art with truly informative and educational text breaks. And while certain things don't necessarily lend themselves well to cultural translations, others fall flat in any situation -- or at least any situation in the year 2021, as we're hopefully coming out of a global pandemic and should be thinking of how we can be kinder and more respectful of one another as human beings.
I am referring, of course, to the early gag of Rain and the professor, two of the most important characters in this book, deciding to not only spy on the two female members of the Dinosaur Explorers team as they bathe in hot springs but also to make derogatory comments as to the 13 year-old's body not being developed enough to be worth spying on. While the feminine duo is depicted as being clever in the ways they foil these pervs, can we not normalize that kind of misogynistic behavior in the first place, especially in people we're meant to root for? It's deeply disrespectful, truly trash behavior, and I'm sick of seeing it in mainstream Asian comics.
The rest of the book isn't terrible. The overall premise is that the team has accidentally traveled back in time and gotten stuck, able only to hop forward several hundred years or so with each jump. Given how long dinosaurs roamed the earth, this means that they spend a lot of time studying and trying to avoid being eaten by same. This volume focuses on the period when dinosaurs took to the skies, examining the known science behind what we believe of the time and providing a fanciful tale to bring home to readers the majesty and danger of these prehistoric creatures.
The story follows Rain as he and the two other teenage boys of the group, smart Sean and strong Stone, head off to gather food for the party, aided by their robot supercomputer Little S. Trying to gather eggs only gets them into trouble, so they eventually find their way to the sea to fish. Fortunately, seafood is plentiful, but amassing such a large amount draws the attention of predators. The boys will have to battle their way home, discovering unexpected allies through kindness and friendship.
It's a fairly standard adventure, with the art really elevating the proceedings, but I just can't get over the attempt to normalize the objectification of the two female members of the party. There's such a fine line between disrespecting a person's privacy and disrespecting their personal space and dignity. I'm so tired of entertainment that pretends that boys being hamsap boys is okay, or that the girls subject to this don't feel threatened and unsafe. I can tell you from firsthand experience that stuff like this totally makes us feel threatened and unsafe, and that not even the adrenaline rush of foiling pervs makes up for the degradation of being treated like sexual objects against our wills in the first place.
Maybe the other books in the series have better lessons, but unless it erases its misogyny, this is not a book I would ever hand my kids.
Dinosaur Explorers Vol. 8: Lord of the Skies by Redcode, Albbie & Air Team will be published tomorrow April 13 2021 by Papercutz Press and is available for pre-order now from Bookshop!. Want it now? For the Kindle version, click here.
January 26, 2021
I cannot finish this book. I am probably about half way thorough and the chapter I am has no new images. Everything has been repeated to the point I am wondering if there was a mistake and a few pages just keep getting repeated.
It is a graphic novel that takes a time traveling set of kids and two adults and tosses them in the middle of Dinosaur Adventures. I can believe in time travel. I can believe time traveling to dinosaur eras. I can believe that the anime/manga look is a good format for the story. I like that there are stopping points to give you facts about dinosaurs. I cannot believe the cartoonish behavior of the characters: the scientist is mad, the boys stereotypes (big guy is not the smartest egg, and is the muscles. The glasses kid is smart and somewhat whiny. The Pokemon trainer-wanna-be is the arrogantly annoying hero. Not to mention a pervert spying on the preteen/teen girl and the 30 something woman in the hot springs). And there are obviously some issues with my brain and the text as it is not flowing for me as I would like, making me wonder if it is a translation.
This is the 8th book in a series, thankfully there was a recap to let you know who these characters are and what they have done, so you are not jumping in blindly. Yet, this is also a solo story, without needing to know heavy details about the others, but what you have helps.
It is a graphic novel that takes a time traveling set of kids and two adults and tosses them in the middle of Dinosaur Adventures. I can believe in time travel. I can believe time traveling to dinosaur eras. I can believe that the anime/manga look is a good format for the story. I like that there are stopping points to give you facts about dinosaurs. I cannot believe the cartoonish behavior of the characters: the scientist is mad, the boys stereotypes (big guy is not the smartest egg, and is the muscles. The glasses kid is smart and somewhat whiny. The Pokemon trainer-wanna-be is the arrogantly annoying hero. Not to mention a pervert spying on the preteen/teen girl and the 30 something woman in the hot springs). And there are obviously some issues with my brain and the text as it is not flowing for me as I would like, making me wonder if it is a translation.
This is the 8th book in a series, thankfully there was a recap to let you know who these characters are and what they have done, so you are not jumping in blindly. Yet, this is also a solo story, without needing to know heavy details about the others, but what you have helps.
March 14, 2021
In the Cretaceous period, two scientists and five children are trapped since their time machine has become dysfunctional. They must be beware of the winged reptiles who are ready to destroy them.
A good book chock full of information on the dinosaurs which existed during the Cretaceous period. The characters, at times behave immaturely, making some scenes hilarious. However unlike the similar books which I have read, the information given is not in sync with the plot due to which the reader may get lost between the plot and the information. Otherwise liked the book.
A good book chock full of information on the dinosaurs which existed during the Cretaceous period. The characters, at times behave immaturely, making some scenes hilarious. However unlike the similar books which I have read, the information given is not in sync with the plot due to which the reader may get lost between the plot and the information. Otherwise liked the book.
April 12, 2023
WARNING! This book is inappropriate for children. The old man/professor is hiding and watching two girls swimming in a pond, AND he has a boy with him doing this. As they spy from the reeds, he comments that it's a perfect spot to see the girls. When they girls stand up, they are wearing wetsuits at which the lecher expresses disappointment and states it was a waste of time to spy on them. Why is this allowed in a genre for kids and youths?? Disgusting.
April 8, 2022
Once again, I'm just here for the information and the pictures.
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