Comics Time Machine

Mike's (no relation) Amazing World of Comics has a cool feature where you can see a cover gallery of any month/year combination you choose. Say, for example, your birth month..



You know, it may explain a lot to know that as I was being born, Tarzan was fighting an underwater triceratops.

Read My Stuff: Panels for Primates

For those who aren't familiar with it, Panels for Primates is a charity anthology webcomic on the act-i-vate site that's meant to raise money for the Primate Rescue Center in Kentucky. It's entirely free to read, but if the ape and monkey stories move or entertain you at all, you're invited - but not obligated - to contribute.

I'm a huge fan of these animals, so I was thrilled when editor Troy Wilson invited me to contribute a short, two-page story. And even more thrilled when he told me I'd be working with the awesome Simon Roy. Between the two of us, we packed a ton of action into two pages including giant cephalopods, tiki-men, a sinister elephant, a mad tortoise, slime-monsters, werewolves, mummies, and I'm self-indulgent enough to have thrown in giant monsters, giant robots, and yes, gorillas riding dinosaurs. It also features that most famous of Kentucky primates, Daniel Baboon. Please go check it out.

Land of the Lost (2009)

My plan worked. Extremely low expectations married with a view of the movie as a film-within-the-show allowed me to make it all the way through without ripping out my eyes and ears. It would be an exaggeration to say that I enjoyed it, but I was at least able to enjoy parts of it without despairing over What Have They Done to the Show?

I knew I was going to have problems with Land of the Lost as soon as Will Ferrell was announced as the star. I don't much like Will Ferrell's work. Not even Anchorman, the movie everyone reminds me about as soon as I tell them I don't think Will Ferrell's funny. I tolerate him in Elf because I love Christmas movies, but I can't make myself watch it every holiday season. Haven't yet seen him in Stranger Than Fiction, though my resistance to it is weakening. At any rate, Land of the Lost did nothing to change my mind about Ferrell's style of comedy.

I did however like Danny McBride and Anna Friel. This is where it came in handy to see the movie as something that the Marshalls might have had to endure once they got home. Otherwise, I would've been extremely frustrated that Rick Marshall's kids have been transformed into a love interest and an idiotic guide.As it was, I laughed at McBride a lot and Friel was less annoying than she was in Pushing Daisies.

Yes, I know Pushing Daisies was a critical darling and I liked it for the most part, but not for the part where Ned and Chuck couldn't touch and it was Rogue all over again. Or the constant reminder that Ned was keeping a huge, horrible secret from her. Friel was fun and likable in the part, I just didn't dig the uglier side of the show that her character represented.

Holly of course has none of that. Instead, she has the unenviable job of having to admire and respect a character played by Will Ferrell. A character - I'm quick to add - that is designed specifically to be unworthy of admiration or respect. This isn't an Anna Friel flaw, it's a fundamentally ridiculous problem in the script. Nice job by Friel for making Holly attractive and charming in spite of that.

Cha-Ka was stupid though. The less said about him the better.

What I was most curious about - and the reason I wanted to see the movie at all - was what they did with the show's mythology. How much would they include? How much would they change? I like that Grumpy was there (and that Holly named him) and that Enik's an important part of the story (though his motivation has completely changed from the show). I was elated to hear someone mention the Zarn until I saw what they actually did with him. I liked that he had Leonard Nimoy's voice, but he's the Zarn in name only, having nothing in common with the inter-dimensional traveler from the show.

But you know, if I'm a person living in the world of the TV series and this movie is all I know about the Marshalls' adventures, I don't hate it. It's not Good in any sense of the word and parts of it are downright horrible, but other parts are enjoyable and even funny. As a whole, like so many other movies, it's mundane and ultimately forgettable, but that's a blessing and a vast improvement over what I expected going into it.

Valley of the Dinosaurs on DVD

Hanna-Barbera only made 16 episodes of Valley of the Dinosaurs, which probably explains how I not only completely missed it as a kid, but also forgot it even existed until a year ago. Since I was reminded about it though, I've been extremely curious to see some actual episodes. Now that's possible thanks to Warner Bros.' Archive collection. It's overpriced at $30 for 16 episodes, but they've got me hooked anyway and are reeling me in.

Land of the Lost: Season Three (Series Finale: Medicine Man)

Season One: Part One, Two, and Three.
Season Two: Part One and Two.
Season Three: Part One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, and Twelve..

Episode 13: “Medicine Man”

The last episode of the series starts off on the right foot with Holly and Cha-Ka’s cooking dinner for the family. In a reference to a first season episode, Cha-Ka observes, “Cha-Ka like stone soup more better.” We’ve established that these are an alternate reality’s version of the Season One characters, but it’s nice to be reminded that some things are the same.

There’s also some genuinely funny banter between the two of them, but while they’re inside the temple gathering vegetables, someone makes off with their pot of water. When Jack and Will return with firewood, Jack goes into the jungle to search for the thief and is attacked by an American Indian in traditional clothing. Jack beats the Indian easily and it’s only then that the Indian realizes that Jack isn’t who he thought he was.

The Indian explains that his name is Lone Wolf and that he was trying to get back to his tribe with some medicine for a fever epidemic that's killing them. He’d ridden into a dust storm, was thrown from his horse, knocked unconscious, and woke up in the Land of the Lost. He admits to stealing the water to make some traditional medicine for himself, because he also has the fever and the White Man’s medicine he was carrying is in his saddlebags with the horse, wherever that is.


He doesn’t explain who he thought Jack was before he got a good look at him, but it’s obvious that he doesn’t expect sympathy from Jack, much less help. However, Jack of course insists on getting Lone Wolf to his feet and back to the temple where the Marshalls can lend him the materials he needs to heal himself.

At the temple, Lone Wolf reveals that he lives in 1877 and learned English under Chief Joseph. As the Marshalls (Will, especially) marvel over this, Cha-Ka rushes in. He’s been scared by a sound and when he describes it, the others realize that it must have been Lone Wolf’s horse. Lone Wolf becomes frantic about finding it. He has to get the medicine to his people. The Marshalls volunteer to help.

What’s weird about this is that everyone immediately takes for granted that all they have to do is find the horse to get Lone Wolf back home. Will even says, “All I need is a lariat and then it’s off to the Old West.” They seem to have conveniently forgotten that if it were that easy, this series would’ve only been one episode long, not three seasons.

Will finds the horse pretty quickly, or what he thinks is Lone Wolf's horse. It actually belongs to a US cavalryman who’s hiding in the bushes nearby. The soldier holds his rifle on Will and introduces himself as Captain Elmo Diggs. He’s been watching the horse, hoping that Lone Wolf would come try to take it so that Diggs could capture him. He tells Will that Lone Wolf has stolen government property and he wants Will to lead him to the Indian.

Before Diggs can get on the horse though, he collapses, sick with fever himself. Will takes compassion on him and offers to bring him back to the temple too. Naturally, when they arrive neither Diggs nor Lone Wolf are happy to see each other. Diggs continues to accuse Lone Wolf of theft while Lone Wolf insists that the medicine already belonged to his tribe. He explains that there were two consignments of medicine, one for the men in Diggs’ fort and one for Lone Wolf’s tribe. When the soldiers used up their own allotment, the Indian Agent in charge of the stores sold them Lone Wolf’s. Diggs claims to know nothing about this.

In spite of their differences, Lone Wolf allows the Marshalls to talk him into using his skills at natural medicine to heal Diggs the same way he’s healed himself. (There’s a brief conversation where he explains to Holly that he can’t use natural medicine quickly enough to heal his entire tribe. I thought that was kind of nice until I realized that the episode is full of this kind of thing: characters having side-conversations to explain plot holes. I appreciate the effort, but it became annoying after a while.) However, Lone Wolf insists on taking Diggs’ horse in return for helping the soldier. The Marshalls object at first that the horse isn’t theirs to give (Diggs is delirious with fever by this point and can’t speak for himself), but Lone Wolf convinces them that doing so is the only way they can save Diggs. They finally agree.

Once he has the horse, Lone Wolf explains that he needs to go into the jungle to look for ingredients for his cure. As he hurries off, Will wonders if he’ll come back. Diggs wakes up enough to participate in the discussion and says that they’ll never see Lone Wolf again. He insists that all Lone Wolf ever wanted was the horse because it’s the ticket home. Again, no one ever explains why this the horse is key, but everyone seems to believe it. With a horse, escaping the Land of the Lost is easy. On foot, it’s impossible.

After an hour, Jack goes looking for Lone Wolf. He catches up to the Indian and finds him hiding with the horse behind a rock, cornered by Grumpy the T-Rex. Jack tricks Grumpy into leaving and then confronts Lone Wolf who claims that Grumpy trapped him before he had a chance to gather what he needed. “Maybe we’ll have better luck together,” Jack says. Lone Wolf looks disappointed, but he has no choice but to stick with Jack and collect the plants..

Back at the temple, Diggs has second thoughts about allowing Lone Wolf to cure him. He thinks Lone Wolf may try to poison him instead. But the Marshall’s insist that it’s the only way possible to save Diggs’ life, so they all go through with it. Lone Wolf performs an all-night ceremony with lots of herbs and face paint and drumming and it seems to work. Near morning, Diggs’s fever breaks.

As the others rest from the long night, Diggs sneaks out to his horse and grabs some manacles to chain up the sleeping Lone Wolf. The sound wakes up the Marshalls who shame Diggs into releasing his prisoner. He also lets Lone Wolf take the horse as agreed, but then Lone Wolf selflessly invites Diggs to come along.

After they leave, Holly finally questions whether or not the two strangers will be able to get back to their time. To his credit and my surprise, Jack isn't taken aback by her doubt. Everyone seemed to take an easy escape for granted the entire episode, but Jack says that he’s not sure either. He also adds that it doesn’t really matter. “At least they’re trying together. In the long run, that’s really more important.”

And so the show ends with another nice lesson for the kids, which – like last time – I kind of dig. It’s a good message and it’s nicely presented without a lot of speeches. No more is said about the medicine or what the men will do with it if they find it though. Maybe that's too complicated a situation for a kids show. Whatever the reason, it's too bad. It's an important dramatic element that should have been resolved.

Another complaint is that there weren’t a lot Land of the Losty elements in this episode. For the series finale, it's very quiet. There are no Sleestaks, there's no plot to get home, and the dinosaurs – except for Grumpy – are mostly set dressing. Torchy and Lulu both make cameo appearances to growl at people, but they’re not part of the story. It’s a nice episode, but a downbeat one for the show to end on and that’s too bad. I wasn’t expecting them to make it home or anything, but it seems like the writers abandoned that part of the concept in the last few episodes.

But though we never see Jack and this reality’s Will and Holly make it home, we know that they did. After all, Jack and Will talked in a previous episode about how people would want to make a movie about their adventures when they got home to tell the tale. And that’s exactly what happened.

The Awesome List: Octochair

Comics

*Greg McElhatton reviews David B's The Littlest Pirate King. [Read About Comics]

*Marvel shared their April releases this week. Sigil #2 reveals that their new Crossgen mini-series aren't necessarily rebooting just the comic in their titles as the pirates of El Cazador also appear in this issue.

There's a new issue of Namor: The First Mutant of course. I've been wanting to try this out and just picked up the first issue of the new storyline after the opening X-Men-crossover storyline finished. I'll let you know what I think.

Dinosaurs are going to get plenty of attention in April too. Reptyl naturally appears in Avengers Academy #12, and Ka-Zar and the Savage Land appear prominently in both Skaar: King of the Savage Land #s 1 and 2 and Spider-Man #13.

*Dinosaurs are also big players in DC's April comics. Magic ones (summoned by Zatanna, for some reason) are featured in Power Girl #23 and Secret Six: The Reptile Brain collects a storyline in which Bane and some cohorts conduct a mission in dinosaur-filled Skartaris.

*Adventure! thought of another jungle girl they missed in their list last week: Tawana from Abbot and Costello Comics.


Movies

*A couple of new photos have been released from Pirates of the Caribbean 4. [/Film]

*Cavegirls in Fur Bikinis reviews Tyrannosaurus Azteca.

TV

*Hawaii Five-O is having a very special guest star in an upcoming episode: the famous tidal wave from its opening credits.They're also adding a new cast member: a female version of a guy who used to guest star on the original version every once in a while. I watched the original really sporadically as a kid, so I didn't realize that there was a recurring villain or a man from Washington who occasionally showed up to try to catch him.

*The Black Panther cartoon that I thought was going to air on BET, but never did is now on DVD.

Miscellaneous

*The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is offering some online courses to teach ocean exploration.Topics include: searching for ocean anomalies, selecting sites for exploration, communication tools, telepresence technology, ocean mapping techniques, water column study and operating underwater robots.

*A student from the Semester at Sea program is blogging about her experience. There's also a group blog documenting the trip.

*An octopus-shaped chair is certainly villainous, but I can't help wanting one for my living room. Although I'd also need a trident to hold while sitting in it.

Art Show: Where do all the Croco-People go?

Love at First Sight



By Mattias Adolfsson. This is just a detail. Click the link to see the whole thing.

Aquaman



By Dave Barking.

Namor vs. Shagreen



The artist is keeping anonymous, but he or she blogs at Marvel Flipside.

Rusty Recon on Gear Island



By Jeremy Vanhoozer.


Typee



By Mead Schaeffer. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Treetop



By Lorenzo Etherington.

Tarzan



By Burne Hogarth. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Judy of the Jungle



By Alex Schomburg. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Noble Beasts



By Berni Wrightson. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]



By Tony Semedo.

Crab Men



By Larry Todd. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Croco-People



By Kelly Freas. [Pulp of the Day]



By Mattias Adolfsson.



By Patrick Schoenmaker. Click the link to see the whole thing. Two whole things, actually.

The Bridge of Light



By Edd Cartier. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

The Awesome List: Triceracopter

Music

*My local radio station doesn't play enough Pirate Core. [Kevin Hendrickson]

Books

*The Best Dinosaur Books for Kids. [Dinosaur Tracking]

Comics

*Top Shelf has released their publishing schedule for 2011 including June's Pirate Penguin vs. Ninja Chicken, Book 1: Troublems with Frenemies and August's Dragon Puncher, Book 2: Island. [Top Shelf]

*A great, illustrated list of jungle girl characters. [Adventure!]

*Classic jungle girl Sheena will participate in Moonstone's big crossover this May alongside Captain Action, Honey West, Kolchak, Domino Lady, and The Spider. [First Comics News]

*Marvel's jungle heroes Ka-Zar and Shanna are going to get a challenge to their supremacy in the Savage Land by the Son of Hulk. Writer Rob Williams promises "giant dinosaurs, giant robots, and giant dinosaurs fighting giant robots." [Marvel]


*Related to that, Ben Morse speculates on what it is that's keeping Ka-Zar and Shanna from becoming A-list players in the Marvel Universe. I agree that it's got a lot to do with their close ties to the Savage Land, but disagree with the premise that Ka-Zar and Shanna should be headline characters in the greater Marvel U. My feeling is that they - like Aquaman - have plenty of great stories that can be told on their home turf (or surf) without constantly trying to cross over into their publishers' larger universes. It's the felt need for guest stars and crossovers, not the characters' settings that are holding back storytellers. [The Cool Kids Table]

*Dark Horse's solicits for April include the second issue of dinosaur-riding Axe Cop's new mini-series as well as Volume 9 of Tarzan: The Jesse Marsh Years. [Comic Book Resources]

Movies

*Johnny Depp's up for Pirates of the Caribbean 5, which already has a screenwriter. [/Film]

TV

*Eddie Izzard will be playing Long John Silver and Elijah Wood will be Ben Gunn in a version of Treasure Island for Sky TV. [/Film]

*Though it's produced by Shonda Rhimes, the folks in charge of ABC's new, jungle-hospital drama want you to know that Off the Map is no Grey's Anatomy. It's created by someone else and has a different group of writers. Rhimes and Off the Map's creator Jenna Bans spin that as a good thing, but I watched the premiere Wednesday night and it could've used some of what makes Grey's so good: intriguing, likable characters.

The only person I cared about was Doc Cole, but that's because he's played by Jason George, who's always awesome. And not liking any of the characters, I didn't care about any of the situations they were in either. I'm rooting for it - I want to like it - but the premiere tried too hard to be Dramatic without first giving me a reason to invest. I hope it improves, but right now the characters are all stereotypes.

Hopefully it'll get the chance to improve. Wednesday night's ratings weren't great, but a repeat on Thursday drew almost as many viewers as the premiere when you'd expect those numbers to drop drastically. Of course, the Thursday rerun had the advantage of a Grey's lead-in.

*Steven Spielberg's time-travel/dinosaur show Terra Nova will debut May 23 on Fox [Inside TV, who also has descriptions of a trailer for the show and answers about time paradoxes from producer Brannon Braga].  /Film has some more (still dinosaurless) pictures from the show, including a few cast photos.

Miscellaneous

*William Bendix Sings and Tells Famous Pirate Stories. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

*Aquaman vs. Mer-Man action figure two-pack. [The Aquaman Shrine]

*Jamaica opens Ian Fleming International Airport. [The Book Bond]

*Triceracopter. [Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs]

*Dino Gum. [Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs]

*Dinosaur cupcakes.[Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs]

*Dinosaur chopsticks. [4 Physics]

Land of the Lost: Season Three (Episode Eleven: Ancient Guardian)

Season One: Part One, Two, and Three.
Season Two: Part One and Two.
Season Three: Part One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten.

Episode 11: "Ancient Guardian"

On the run from a party of Sleestaks at night, the Marshalls enter a part of the Valley that they’ve never been to before. Near a cliff, they find a large, wooden statue carved to look like a Sleestak. There are strange symbols all over it and the Marshalls naturally assume that the statue’s purpose is to point the way out of the Land of the Lost. How could they not?

They don't want to decipher it in the middle of the night though with the Sleestaks and Grumpy the T-Rex on the hunt, so they decide instead to haul it back to the temple where they can study it at their leisure. They don’t spend much time with it before they realize that they’ll need Enik’s help. Will volunteers to ask the Altrusian come morning.

He and Jack spend the rest of the evening imagining what it would be like to finally get home. The only reason I mention this is that Jack speculates that most people won’t believe the Marshalls’ stories of the Land of the Lost. “On the other hand,” he notes, “somebody might want to write a book about it. Or a movie.” And just like that we have a way to make the Will Ferrell movie – however awful and unfaithful to the show – fit into official continuity. If it’s a movie within the show I feel like I can watch it and satisfy my curiosity without getting all ticked off at it. I’ll just imagine the Marshalls watching it too and rolling their eyes about how Hollywood got the details wrong.

Meanwhile, back at the cliff where the statue was, a large, shaggy creature emerges from a crevice and climbs over a pile of rubble to terrorize the Sleestaks in their caverns. Enik’s able to drive it away with a laser-shooting crystal before it reaches the hatching chambers, but the reptile-men are understandably distraught. Enik and the Sleestak Leader ask the Cave of Skulls why the Ancient Guardian has forsaken them and learn that the Marshalls have taken the Guardian. The Leader wants to kill the humans in retaliation, but Enik sees some benefit in talking to them first. He doesn’t believe that they know what the Guardian’s for.


However, the Sleestaks visit the temple while the Marshalls are asleep and steal the statue back (it’s sitting outside because Cha-Ka freaked out and wouldn’t let the Marshalls keep it inside). As the humans mourn its loss the next morning, Enik arrives and learns that it’s already gone. He tries to explain why the Sleestaks are upset about it, but Holly and Will are determined to dismiss the lizard-men’s attachment to “that old statue.” Jack’s more sensitive though, or at least more curious. He wants to know how the Guardian prevents the Hairy Monster from the High Country from coming into the Valley. Unfortunately, Enik doesn’t know. All he knows is that it works. He gives them a stern warning never to disturb it again.

When Enik’s gone, Jack also dismisses the Sleestaks’ belief as superstition, but he seems content to abide by Enik’s wishes. Rather than study the statue at home, the Marshalls make plans to go back to the cliff and examine it there. When they do though, they find a pissed off Enik waiting for them. He knew they’d be back to mess with it some more.

They explain that they just want to look at it, but while they’re talking the monster emerges, even though the Guardian is in its proper place. The creature even knocks the statue over and breaks it. Enik rushes back to warn the Sleestaks and the Marshalls take the opportunity to steal the statue again, hoping that the Sleestaks won’t mind now that they know the statue doesn’t stop the monster.

Back at the temple, there’s kind of a cool moment when Holly points out that the Guardian must have been somehow effective since the monster’s never come down from the mountain before. “Not while we’ve been here,” Will agrees.

That makes Jack pause. “Yeah?” he asks. Apparently, he hadn’t considered that, but is willing to take the kids’ word for it since they’ve been there longer than he has. It’s a nice acknowledgment on his part and a small nod to continuity, which has become more and more rare as the season’s progressed.

As Jack examines the statue, he turns it around to get a look at the back and the eyes (made of glass or some kind of crystal) to start to glow. Almost immediately, they shoot beams of light and start a small fire on the other side of the temple courtyard. The Marshalls don’t realize what caused the blaze at first, but Holly takes another look at Jack’s notes and realizes that the Guardian’s markings are numbers, not letters. With that information, Jack’s able to piece together that the equations have something to do with optics and that the Guardian started the fire. In time, he figures out that the statue stores solar energy and uses it to generate a heat ray.

Though the Sleestaks try to kill the Marshalls during the night, the family shows remarkable compassion for them once Enik explains that the monster has begun attacking the hatching chambers for eggs during its raids. They set out first thing in the morning to return the statue to its rightful place, this time making sure that it’s oriented correctly on its pedestal (something the Sleestaks hadn’t known to do when they put it back before). With the Guardian in place, it heats up the pile of rubble that the creature has to climb over to leave its crevice. That makes the rocks too hot for the creature to touch and prevents it from entering the Valley. The Sleestaks are saved.

Later, back at the temple, the family goes over Lessons Learned and decides not to mess with things they don’t understand. I wonder how well that message would’ve stuck had there been a fourth season. Unfortunately, we’ll never know.

Art Show: Grrrreat!

HMS Hornblower



By Mattias Adolfsson.

Floating



By Sulamith Wulfing. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Atomic Commandos in Action!



Possibly by Ogden Whitney. [Admiral Cal]

The Adventure You Will Never Forget!



By George Akimoto. [Admiral Cal]

Meet Me Underwater



By Lew Bridcoe.[Art Jumble]

A Pirate's Life for Me



By Selina Fenech. [Never Sea Land]

Aquaman



By Pat Gleason. [The Aquaman Shrine]

Land Ho!



By Jeremy Vanhoozer

Back to the Boat, And Quickly!.



Also by Jeremy Vanhoozer, obviously. He says that these are from something he's "starting to fool around with," so I hope that means there's a comic or some other kind of story coming. The files are named Gear Island, which sounds absolutely fantastic.

Happy New Year!



By Gene Gonzales.

The Girl of the Lost City



Artist Unknown. [Cows in Art Class]

Tarzan



By HM Stoops. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Judy of the Jungle



By Alex Schomburg. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Not that Creepy, but who needs it to be?



By Frank Frazetta. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Tigers



By Andry Rajoelina. [Art Jumble]

Jungla



By Pierre Alary.

A Time So Brief



By  Julie Bell. [Shanna the She-Devil Blogger]

Let's you and him fight



By Ken Smith. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

The Awesome List: Isle of 1000,000 Graves

I'm trying a slightly different, less image-intensive format for this. It's not as fancy, but it'll help me streamline things and is more organized than the way I used to do it. Let me know what you think in the comments, even if what you think is, "Eh. Whatever."

Comics

• Cartoonist Jason's new Fantagraphics book Isle of 100,000 Graves will feature a a girl protagonist and pirates. [First Second Books]
• Nemo Publishing's Sea Ghost #1 is available for pre-order through Previews. [Maine News Simply]
• Shanna, the She-Devil Blogger has scans of a Shanna article that ran in Back Issue Magazine #43.
• CBR has a preview of Savage Beauty #1, Moonstone's new jungle girl comic that also has a back-up article by This Guy. [Comic Book Resources]

Movies

• Ewan McGregor may be playing eco-pirate Paul Watson in Ocean Warrior. [/Film]

TV

• Four photos from Stephen Spielberg's time-travel/dinosaur TV show Terra Nova. Sadly, no dinosaurs in any of them. [/Film]

The Awesome List: We would feed the hungry beasts 'til they couldn't eat no more

Claudette Colbert, Jungle Girl



Cavegirls in Fur Bikinis has several stills featuring Claudette Colbert as a jungle girl in Cecil B DeMille's Four Frightened People.

Supernature



Also from Cavegirls in Fur Bikinis, a '70s video in which trashy, robotic scientists transform themselves into trashy, dancing jungle girls with a giant banana.

Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Comic



Writer Mark Kidwell is a pal of mine and an extremely inventive horror writer. His co-writer on this is Jay Fotos, the mastermind behind those cool Frazetta comics from a few years back, who cites his inspirations for the one-shot as Ray Harryhausen, Raquel Welch, and Looney Tunes.

Super Dinosaur



There's more than one dinosaur comic in the works from Image. The guys behind The Astounding Wolf-Man are working on a series about a young boy and his intelligent T-Rex pal who have to protect the Hollow Earth from evil scientists and whatnot.