15 Saturday Jun 2013
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Angelo Torres, Archie Goodwin, dinosaur, dinosaur comics, Eerie, Eerie Magazine, Frank Frazetta, tyrannosaurus rex, Warren
Angelo Torres and Archie Goodwin take you into the swamp to meet your god. And if you know anything, you know it’s a god we can really get behind: Tyrannosaurus Rex! Dig that Frank Frazetta cover. Yes! Thanks to The Warrior’s Comic Book Den for turning us on to this piece of Angelo Torres history!
Collector’s Guide:
– From Eerie Magazine #5; Warren, 1966.
27 Monday May 2013
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ankylosaurus, Classics Illustrated, dinosaur, dinosaur comics, Gilberton, iguanodon, paleoscincus, pentaceratops, Prehistoric World, trachodon, Triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex
As part of their Classics Illustrated series, Gilberton published Prehistoric World in 1962.
It takes the reader from the beginning of life, through the age of dinosaurs, into the age of mammals, and ends with a detailed look at prehistoric man. Within its 100 pages, we also learn about many key people who shaped the study of prehistoric life.
Collector’s Guide:
– From Classics Illustrated Special #167: Prehistoric World; 1962.
– Not in stock? Try it on Newkadia.
06 Monday May 2013
Posted in dinosaur, science fiction
Satanus the Black Tyrannosaur! Undisputed Lord of Sauron Valley! Satanus returns from the pages of Judge Dredd in a six-part story called Satanus Unchained. Dinosaur mayhem and carnage ensue when a pack of sport hunters decide to take down the living legend. This is one gorgeously painted story! Check out the first three pages in our gallery today.
Collector’s Guide:
– From Satanus Unchained; Serialized in 2000AD, progs 1241-1246
Published by Fleetway in 2001. Script by Gordon Rennie, art by Colin Macneil.
27 Sunday Jan 2013
In an age when giants walked the world, he was the mightiest of them all: Devil Dinosaur!
Jack Kirby‘s Devil Dinosaur and his pal Moon Boy inhabit “Dinosaur World.” Devil Dinosaur, as a result of a mutation, is bright red, smart as a human, and super-strong. It’s a fun ride, so hold tight to your Tyrannosaur and get ready to rock!
Collect all 9 issues of Devil Dinosaur or the Devil Dinosaur Omnibus
12 Monday Nov 2012
Posted in dinosaur, golden age
Wonder Woman takes a bet for charity. She babysits a bunch of fearsome animals, including the most fearsome of all: Tyrannosaurus Rex! We’ll share with you just the dino-centric pages from that story.
Thanks to Boing Boing for hipping us to this golden age dinosaur comic by Wonder Woman’s creator, Charles Moulton!
Collector’s Guide:
– From Wonder Woman #90; DC Comics, May 1957.
18 Tuesday Sep 2012
Posted in dinosaur, indie, science fiction
Let’s rock one of our favorite stories of all time: the saga of Satanus, the evil, ass-kicking tyrannosaur from Judge Dredd! Here we find out all about his prehistoric birth and death, and his rise to infamy after being cloned back to life. Yes, this was before Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park – more proof of Pat Mills’ genius!
Collector’s Guide:
– From Judge Dredd #7; Eagle/Quality 1984.
Reprints the Satanus chapters of Cursed Earth; originally printed in 2000 AD #61-85. Collected in Cursed Earth TPB.
Thanks to Longbox Graveyard for sharing these scans!
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
The only thing better than reading about dinosaurs is being a dinosaur! No one knows that better than Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes fame. Calvin always preferred Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Cartoonist Bill Watterson gave Calvin’s imagination ample time to roam the late Cretaceous in search of carnage, conflict, and conquest. And the only thing better than a time machine is an active imagination…
18 Wednesday Jul 2012
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Charles Yates, dinosaur, dinosaur comics, Dinosaurs an Illustrated Guide, tyrannosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex
Charles Yates’ “Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Guide” showcases tons of completely awesome dinosaur drawings. No dinosaur comics enthusiast should be without it! “Dinosaurs” has been out of print for over 20 years and can be hard to find. We present this work with the permission of artist Charles Yates and writer Gary Reed. Gary, now a science teacher, notes that some of the science may be out of date due to new discoveries, but was the best information available at the time.
Collector’s Guide:
-From Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Guide #1 (Carnivores) and #2 (Herbivores).
– Sometimes available on Amazon: Issue One, Issue Two.
12 Tuesday Jun 2012
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Amazing Adventures, Amazing Adventures 1961, dimetrodon, dinosaur, dinosaur comics, Jack Kirby, Smilodon, tyrannosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex
Jack Kirby kicks out the prehistoric jams in “We Were Trapped in the Twilight World!”
Nothing beats using a torch to fight a dimetrodon – unless that dimetrodon is also trying to eat a cute, helpless baby. Truly demented!
Featuring a smilodon, a cro-magnon man, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Twilight World has no sense of actual pre-history – but it sure is a lot of fun!
Collector’s Guide:
– From Amazing Adventures #3; Marvel, 1961.
– Reprinted in the Amazing Fantasy Omnibus #1; Marvel, 2007.
Marvel published multiple series entitled “Amazing Adventures.” Don’t get this one confused with the 1970 Amazing Adventures. That was the one Kirby kicked off with stories about the Inhumans.
11 Monday Jun 2012
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alley oop, cephalapsis, ceratosaurus, dimetrodon, dinichthys, dinosaur, dinosaur comics, eohippus, glyptodon, golden age, plateosaurus, plesiosaurus, prehistoric, Prehistoric Animals, prehistoric birds, prehistoric mammals, pterichthys, tyrannosaurus rex, v. t. hamlin, VT Hamlin
In our quest for what Steve Bissette called “Pure” Dinosaur Comics, we discovered V.T. Hamlin. Hamlin wrote and drew Alley Oop, a caveman with a pet dinosaur named Dinny. For years, Hamlin included a feature called Dinny’s Family Album. It was a single panel in the Alley Oop strip showcasing a prehistoric dinosaur, fish, bird, or mammal. Alley Oop may not have been pure dinosaur comics, but Dinny’s Family Album sure was!
Here are some of the color images we found on the web. You will find here cephalapsis, pterichthys, dimetrodon, dinichthys, eohippus, glyptodon, phororhacos, plateosaurus, plesiosaurus, and tyrannosaurus rex!
21 Saturday Apr 2012
Posted in dinosaur, first issue, science fiction
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2000AD, dinosaur, dinosaur comics, first issue, Flesh, Flesh the Dino Files, Pat Mills, time travel, tyrannosaurus rex
“By the 23rd Century, most animals had been destroyed. Man survived on synthetic foods alone. But he still craved real meat…
With the discovery of time travel, he was able to go in search of it – back 65 million years to the Age of the Great Dinosaurs!”
Mars Will Send No More celebrates the original epic Flesh from 2000 AD magazine, by Pat Mills, and starring Old One Eye, the mother of Satanus!
Now fire up your electric whip and get ready for major dinosaur mayhem!
Collector’s Guide:
– Collected in Flesh: The Dino Files TPB; Rebellion, 2011.
– Originally printed in 2000 AD #1-19; Fleetway, 1977.
20 Friday Apr 2012
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In an age when giants walked the world, he was the mightiest of them all: Devil Dinosaur!
Jack Kirby‘s Devil Dinosaur and his pal Moon Boy inhabit “Dinosaur World.” Devil Dinosaur, as a result of a mutation, is bright red, smart as a human, and super-strong. It’s a fun ride, so hold tight to your Tyrannosaur and get ready to rock!
Collect all 9 issues of Devil Dinosaur or the Devil Dinosaur Omnibus
19 Thursday Apr 2012
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In an age when giants walked the world, he was the mightiest of them all: Devil Dinosaur!
Jack Kirby‘s Devil Dinosaur and his pal Moon Boy inhabit “Dinosaur World.” Devil Dinosaur, as a result of a mutation, is bright red, smart as a human, and super-strong. It’s a fun ride, so hold tight to your Tyrannosaur and get ready to rock!
Collect all 9 issues of Devil Dinosaur or the Devil Dinosaur Omnibus
18 Wednesday Apr 2012
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In an age when giants walked the world, he was the mightiest of them all: Devil Dinosaur!
Jack Kirby‘s Devil Dinosaur and his pal Moon Boy inhabit “Dinosaur World.” Devil Dinosaur, as a result of a mutation, is bright red, smart as a human, and super-strong. It’s a fun ride, so hold tight to your Tyrannosaur and get ready to rock!
Collect all 9 issues of Devil Dinosaur or the Devil Dinosaur Omnibus
17 Tuesday Apr 2012
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In an age when giants walked the world, he was the mightiest of them all: Devil Dinosaur!
Jack Kirby‘s Devil Dinosaur and his pal Moon Boy inhabit “Dinosaur World.” Devil Dinosaur, as a result of a mutation, is bright red, smart as a human, and super-strong. It’s a fun ride, so hold tight to your Tyrannosaur and get ready to rock!
Collect all 9 issues of Devil Dinosaur or the Devil Dinosaur Omnibus
Bonus: Here is an image of the original black and white artwork for this issue’s double splash. Don’t you wish it was hanging on your wall?!
15 Sunday Apr 2012
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In an age when giants walked the world, he was the mightiest of them all: Devil Dinosaur!
Jack Kirby‘s Devil Dinosaur and his pal Moon Boy inhabit “Dinosaur World.” Devil Dinosaur, as a result of a mutation, is bright red, smart as a human, and super-strong. It’s a fun ride, so hold tight to your Tyrannosaur and get ready to rock!
Collect all 9 issues of Devil Dinosaur or the Devil Dinosaur Omnibus
12 Thursday Apr 2012
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Devil Dinosaur, dinosaur, dinosaur comics, Jack Kirby, Moon Boy, spider, spider god, tyrannosaurus rex
Our Godzilla Week Crossover continues today in a guest post on Diversions of the Groovy Kind. Along with our scintillating review, you will see the complete Godzilla #22 where Devil Dinosaur teams ups with our favorite King of the Monsters! Yes!
Not enough Godzilla Grooviness for you? Visit Longbox Graveyard for a review of Marvel’s Godzilla series.
Now, let’s rock Devil Dinosaur #2!
Collector’s Guide:
Collect all 9 issues of Devil Dinosaur or the Devil Dinosaur Omnibus
02 Monday Apr 2012
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Devil Dinosaur, dinosaur, March Madness, Satanus, T-Rex Beat Down, tyrannosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex
Welcome to the Final Championship Round of The T-Rex Beat Down: March Madness with Tyrannosaurs!
Fighting today for the title of T-Rex World Champion: Jack Kirby’s Devil Dinosaur and Pat Mills’ Satanus! Devil Dinosaur conquered a telepathic tyrannosaur and devoured Jim Lawson’s Loner. Satanus destroyed the Tyrannosaurus of Jurassic Park and murdered his own mother: Old One Eye.
We invite you to cast your own vote for your favorite in this match. Will your favorite Rex reign as the tyrant supreme – or sleep with the mother$#&%ing fishes tonight?!? We’re about to find out!
T-Rex Beat Down is a co-blogging series presented in partnership with Paul O’Connor of The LongBox Graveyard. Let’s give credit where credit is due: March Madness for Tyrannosaurs was Paul’s idea in the first place! Paul wrote the Tale of the Tape for half our contestants and scripted three of our battles. Plus, we put him in charge of feeding the tyrant lizards for a few days. His kids didn’t complain about taking the Rexes out for walks every night – although no one volunteered to sweep out the stalls!
Now let’s get to our final Championship Round!
The crowd is going wild today, Rex fans! Half of the audience is chanting, “De-VIL! De-VIL!” Half of them are chanting, “Sa-tan-US! Sa-tan-US!” It sounds like a gathering of 50,000 Satan worshippers in here! The noise is stunning, horrible, and strangely exciting.
Moon Boy stands in Devil Dinosaur’s corner, quietly talking to his big red friend. Devil seems agitated. He suffered a lot of wounds in his first two rounds. Some of his supporters have bet against him today, believing the relatively unhurt Satanus has the winning edge.
Satanus rages furiously in his corner. He’s already eaten four of the handlers assigned to keep him in his corner until the starting bell rings. Is there no quelling the fires of rage that burn in his black heart?
What’s this? We just received word that Judge Dredd and an army of Judges are waiting outside the stadium. They say they are going to arrest everyone who exits the Coliseum of Cretaceous Carnage – for illegal gambling on dinosaur fights! Someone please tell us we built a secret escape route for the Press and Staff!
Oh, well – no time to worry about that now.
There’s the Starting Bell! Let’s tune in for the play-by-play!
Satanus and Devil Dinosaur immediately leap at each other! Two sets of horrifying jaws slash the air, looking for the fatal death grip on their opponent. Locked in struggle, each batters the other, trying for a take-down.
Their heads smash into one another, and the stunning blow breaks them apart for a moment. Satanus whips his tail at Devil’s injured leg, still smarting from his Semifinal battle. Devil falls, roaring in agony! But, no sooner does the roar escape his mouth than his open jaws clamp down on Satanus’ right knee.
Devil snaps his head to one side. With a sickening crunch, Satanus’ knee shatters! Blood and bone fragments spray onto the ground as the air trembles with his angry screams. Devil rolls away, narrowly escaping a killer strike from Satanus’ serrated teeth.
As Devil rolls away, Satanus’ leg gives out and he falls on his mutilated knee. RRAAAAOOOOAAARRGGHHH!!!! Slobber flies from his jaws as the agony drives him further into the depths of enraged insanity. Devil regains his feet and jumps in for the kill. He meets the open mouth of Satanus!
Deflected, Devil falls to one side as Satanus rakes the air with his fearsome choppers. But, Devil now has the upper hand. His opponent stays rooted to the ground, unable to rise. Devil backs off slightly, circling his foe just beyond the range of the terrible teeth.
Satanus fans hurl skulls, beer cans, and insults at Devil. Struck by the garbage, he turns to the stands and roars his anger! “Don’t listen to them, Devil,” shouts Moon Boy. “Go for the kill!” The sound of his friend’s voice brings Devil back to the task at hand.
Devil circles swiftly as Satanus whips that terrifying black tail at him again. Devil leaps over the tail, falling on Satanus’ back this time. The claws of his feet sink into the flesh of the Black Tyrannosaur, gripping him firmly. His strikes, his jaws clamping onto Satanus’ neck in a deadly, implacable embrace!
Satanus howls! The humiliation angers the lord of the Cursed Earth far more than the pain. He rolls onto his back, seeking to dislodge the red fury that assails him. But no impact can dislodge the mighty Devil Dinosaur now! Devil savagely twists his grip on Satanus, but the Black Tyrannosaur proves too strong for a neck break.
Pushing away from Satanus, Devil smashes him again and again in the face with his giant red tail! The impact stuns Satanus just long enough for Devil to strike a killing blow. He finds Satanus’ jugular with his massive teeth – and pulls!
A gurgling scream escapes Satanus, and streams of blood gush from his throat. Devil pounces on the fallen Rex again, slashing and scraping violently. Pound after pound of reptilian steak rips away from the body of Satanus. The beast who could not die breathes his last breath.
RRRRRRAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!! Devil raises his head to the sky, proclaiming his victory to gods and men. The black behemoth below him lies motionless in the dirt. There can be only one ruler of this valley – and it is Devil Dinosaur!
The fans are on their feet! “DE-VIL! DE-VIL! DE-VIL!” Moon Boy runs into the center of the ring to meet Devil Dinosaur. The red ravager, so violent just seconds before, leans over to nuzzle his friend. The bond between them remains unbroken. “I knew you could do it, Devil!” cries Moon Boy.
Congratulations to our World Champion T-Rex: Devil Dinosaur! Our champion will take home these amazing prizes: a lifetime supply of Stegosaurus Steaks and Spicy Pterodactyl Wings from Caveman Carl’s Paleozoic Pizza! An indestructible adamantium Championship Medallion! A complete DVD collection of Ray Harryhausen movies, remastered in 5.1 surround sound! A three-movie contract with Marvel/Disney, with 75% royalties on toys and merchandising! And… a lifetime subscription to Mars Will Send No More!
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for participating in The T-Rex Beat Down: March Madness for Tyrannosaurs! Please watch out for the Judges as you leave the Coliseum. The penalties for illegal gambling on dinosaur fights are rather harsh!
Our final Bracket of Brutality: Championship Round!
01 Sunday Apr 2012
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dinosaur, March Madness, Old One Eye, Paul O'Connor, Satanus, T-Rex Beat Down, tyrannosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex
Welcome to the Second Semi-Finals Round of The T-Rex Beat Down: March Madness with Tyrannosaurs! Join us every day through April 2nd as eight fearsome tyrannosaurs fight for the world T-Rex championship title!
T-Rex Beat Down is a co-blogging series presented in partnership with The LongBox Graveyard, who brings you today’s play-by-play.
In today’s Semi-Finals round: Two monsters from the mind of Pat Mills, raging into the arena from the pages of 2000 AD: Satanus and Old One Eye! We invite you to cast your own vote for your favorite in this match. Will your favorite Rex annihilate all enemies – or feed the worms?!? We’re about to find out!
But first: Survey Results! Fans are evenly split over the Quarterfinals match between Satanus and The Tyrannosaurus from Jurrassic Park. Here is our favorite dissenting opinion against the victory of Satanus: “No contest, no question. The Tyrannosaurs Rex from JP is going to be the absolute champion. He is not only the best representation of a rex brought to life, but he took on two raptors with ease… And he ate a slimy lawyer. Total Boss to the Max!” We can only say that Velociraptors are actually the size of turkeys, and Satanus aint no turkey! But feel free to curse Satanus in today’s round – it only makes him angrier.
And now, let’s get to the ring for the Main Event!
Our semifinal features two fresh Rexes that benefitted from walk-overs in the first round. Old One Eye dispatched an aged King Kong T-Rex with a desultory swat of her mighty tail, and Satanus curb-stomped movie star Jurassic Park T-Rex before the pampered faux Tyrant Lizard knew the contest had begun. But now, in the Semis, $#@% gets real in a rematch 65 million years in the making! Yep, it’s Satanus against the Rex that murdered him at the dawn of time: Old One Eye, who also just happens to be his mother! It’s a saurian tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions!
Let’s see what happened the last time these two behemoths battled!
Each Rex enters the arena silently, never averting their gaze from their foe, never allowing themselves the luxury of a challenging bellow. This is serious. This is personal. The Rexes approach each other slowly – not reluctantly, but savoring each three-toed step. Each Rex has been here before, and if they feel any terror at all of the clash that is to come, it is trumped by far with the nervous thrill of battle, with knowing that here at last is a foe each combatant deems worthy!
There’s nothing tougher in sport than beating a rival in tournament time after trouncing them in the regular season, but that is what Old One Eye must do. It’s been strange eons since last these two locked in battle, but to Satanus – so recently reincarnated after his sleep of ages – it feels like only yesterday. Only yesterday he fell in battle to his hag-bitch of a mother. Only yesterday he foolishly initiated the ten hour battle for mastery of the pack that left him dead, but not before Old One Eye had broken every bone in Satanus’ body.
Every bone! Better than two hundred of them. Every bone broken. Every one of them a painful lesson. Every one of them a shattered seed of hate.
Old One Eye is still masterful, still the meanest hunk of Tyrannosaurus to ever stalk the earth. But this time, there’s something different. Something small, something almost insignificant – but something Satanus hopes will give him the edge to kill the monster that birthed him. If he can just live long enough …
They’re within striking distance now, and Satanus begins slowly circling to his right. To his right. Old One Eye turns with him, craning her neck, keeping her one good eye fixed on her foe. She snarls in savage triumph. Satanus is playing right into her clutches! She slides a half-step closer to Satanus with each turn of the spiral. Close. Closer still. Almost there … and strike!
Old One Eye lashes out, her tail whipping toward Satanus, fast as lightning. She’ll take his legs out from beneath him, then pounce on his throat and …
But what’s this? Her tail sweep meets only empty air! Satanus anticipates her attack, leaps in the air, narrowly clearing her whip-snap swipe. And then he lands, shaking the arena floor, and rapidly circles again, to his left.
To his left!
Old One Eye is caught off balance. She has to crane her neck to the left as she turns to her right! She spins herself about, half-off-balance for snapping around in a panic. The one insignificant difference from the time she fought and killed Satanus flares up to haunt her: her eye! Her cursed missing eye! Satanus is in her blind spot!
His eyes gleaming insanely, the black beast attacks in a frenzy! He seizes the base of Old One Eye’s tail in his jaws. He hardly feels the pain as he Old One Eye tears into his back. The tables are turned. The pupil has become the master. With evil cunning, Satanus uses the terrible daggers of his teeth to tear off his mother’s tail!
Unable to keep her balance, Old One Eye slips in the fast-spreading pool of her own blood, and falls. Waving his trophy of a tail about, Satanus glares down at his dying mother, and unleashes a screeching litany of hate! He spits free his grisly trophy and lunges in for the kill…
Old One Eye lashes out! Was she laying in wait, or are these her death paroxysms? The effect is the same: Satanus turns aside at just the last moment, and the hind claws that might have disemboweled him instead rake the black Tyrannosaurus’ flanks. He screams in pain and rage. So it is to be that way, is it, mother? IS IT?
Satanus backs off, begins to circle. Turning to the left … to the left … Old One Eye is on her back, unable to stand. Crab-like, she tries to turn, her head craning about, trying to keep Satanus in her field of vision. Her life’s blood is pumping into the sands of the arena through the severed stump of her tail, and she suddenly begins to feel every one of her 65 million years age.
But Satanus is enraged, now, and he won’t make this easy. In a twisted kind of respect for the hag-bitch that gave him life, Satanus might have granted his foe an easy death. But that fresh claw gouge along his flanks has reawakened all the pain and humiliation of his defeat at Old One Eye’s jaws so many ages ago. And now… she must pay.
He circles again and again. Old One Eye grows dizzy, begins snapping her head back and forth, frantic, beyond panic. Satanus lures her with his slow, rhythmic steps. Then, like lightning, he strikes! He pounces on his mother’s back, biting firmly on the back of her neck, but he does not close his jaws. No, that would be too easy. Old One Eye has forfeited her right to an easy death. Instead, he pins her helpless as he stomps on her ribs, hearing them crack.
That’s for YOU, mom. That’s five bones broken. One hundred ninety-five to go.
Old One Eye screams, twists her neck, tries to shake the black T-Rex from her back, but Satanus has her in a death grip, helpless as a kitten held by the scruff of her neck. STOMP! SNAP! STOMP! SNAP! On and on it goes, the horrible revenge of Satanus! The crowd is silent. This isn’t battle. This is murder! Someone should stop it! But who dares confront the evil Satanus, meting out pain so savage even his diabolic namesake would turn away in disgust?
STOMP! SNAP! STOMP! SNAP! Two hundred bones, every one of them breaking. Old One Eye’s flesh and organs stomped into jelly.
Killing Old One Eye doesn’t take a fraction of the ten hours it took Satanus to expire when he first fought his mother, all those years ago. But it still seems to last a lifetime, and it is NOT A NICE WAY TO DIE!
The victor: SATANUS!! Revenge is a dish best served hot and squirming!
Behold the Bracket of Brutality going into the Finals (Click for Full Size.)
WINNER OF THIS ROUND: Satanus, the Black Tyrannosaur!
Be here tomorrow for the FINAL CHAMPIONSHIP Round: Satanus versus Devil Dinosaur!
31 Saturday Mar 2012
Welcome to the First Semi-Finals Round of The T-Rex Beat Down: March Madness with Tyrannosaurs! Join us every day through April 2nd as eight fearsome tyrannosaurs fight for the world T-Rex championship title!
T-Rex Beat Down is a co-blogging series presented in partnership with The LongBox Graveyard.
In today’s Semi-Finals round: Jack Kirby’s Devil Dinosaur and Jim Lawson’s Loner! We invite you to cast your own vote for your favorite in this match. Will your favorite Rex rule the roost – or end up with his head on a spit?!? We’re about to find out!
Devil Dinosaur defeated a telepathic tyrannosaurus in the Quarterfinals, and Loner conquered Gwangi the Allosaurus. Devil remains virtually unscathed after his violent victory, but Loner took some bad hits from Harryhausen’s spunky stop-action menace.
Since you already met them both in the Quarters, let’s go ringside now for a quick interview with our carnivorous cretaceous contestants!
Mars: Devil, you broke the bonds of mind control to take a victory in the Quarters. How do you feel?
Devil Dinosaur: RRRROOOAAAARRRRRRGGHH!!!
Moon Boy: The great Devil says, “There can only be one ruler of this land – and it is Devil Dinosaur!”
Mars: — Thank you, Moon Boy, for that translation! Tell us, Devil, as you gear up for today’s fight, what’s your impression of Loner?
Devil Dinosaur: NNYYAAARRRRRRR! AAAROOOO!!!
Moon Boy: Mighty Devil says, “Loner is a fearsome warrior, but there can be only one ruler of this land!”
Mars: Right on! Thank you Moon Boy – and good luck to you, Devil!
Devil Dinosaur: GGGGRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!
Moving right along! Let’s check in with Jim Lawson’s Loner.
Mars: Loner, you took some nasty bites from Gwangi in the Quarter—
Loner: RRRAAAAKKKK! GGRRRRAAAOOOOORRRRGGHH!
Mars: Whoa, easy there big fella! We just – hey… HEY! Put down my camera-man! Ah- NO!! Do you know how much those guys cost?!?
Loner: (shakes the dismembered carcass of our camera-man violently) RRRROOOOOAAAAA!!!!
Mars: Ah geez. Guys, call Sid’s family. It aint gonna be pretty. Listen, Loner, we know things went badly with your mother when you were little. Have you spoken to her since the Beat Down began?
Loner: NNNNAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!! GGGAARRRRRRRR!!
Mars: Alright! Sounds like a NO! And that’s all we have time for right now. Let’s get back to our seats!
And there’s the starting bell! Let’s tune in to the Play By Play!
Devil leaps into action to deliver one of his powerhouse jump-kicks. But Loner clamps his massive jaws onto Devil’s leg mid-air and slams him to the ground. Oh! Loner shakes the leg ferociously as blood sprays the arena.
Devil Dinosaur kicks into Loner’s belly, tearing huge gouges in Loner’s underside with his terrible claws. But Loner won’t give up the leg! Devil kicks him in the throat. Savagery! Devil yanks his trapped leg towards the ground, smashing Loner’s face into the earth.
Finally Loner’s hold on the leg is broken! Devil struggles to his feet as Loner shakes off the pain in his snout. Devil stands, favoring his injured leg, and howls a provocative roar at Loner. “Come and get some,” he seems to say.
Loner charges in for the kill. Devil pivots and blocks with his shoulder. The force of the impact takes them both to the ground! They tumble over each other, jaws snapping at the air, searching for meat and blood. It looks like Loner is going to find his feet first. No! Devil’s teeth clamp down on Loner’s left arm. Devil jerks his head to one side and – off comes Loner’s arm! That’s gotta hurt.
Loner shrieks as the bloody hole in his shoulder spurts streams of blood all over Devil Dinosaur. He whips his tail at Devil’s face. A hit! The severed arm gets stuck in Devil’s throat. His eyes bulge. He claws at nothing, gasping for air.
Loner charges again. As he slams into Devil, he inadvertently dislodges the arm in Devil’s throat. Saved by a savage Heimlich maneuver, Devil’s back in the game! Knocked to the ground, Devil kicks his one good leg at Loner. Loner goes down!
Devil pounces on top of Loner, looking to go for the kill with his powerful jaws. But every snap is met with an equally ferocious snap from Loner! Kicking the red dinosaur off of him, Loner gets back on his feet. He lunges at Devil, tearing a slice of rib meat from Devil’s side.
But as Loner raises his head to swallow his Prime Rex Rib, Devil goes for the throat! At lightning speed, Devil’s jaws close in on the trachea and jugular of Jim Lawson’s juggernaut. A hideous roar of hatred echoes throughout the arena as Loner gushes blood into Devil’s mouth.
Devil’s frightening serrated teeth slice through veins and respiratory passages until… he tears them away! Whoa! We see a gaping hole in Loner’s throat as he falls to the ground. Devil leaps onto Loner. He’s going to confirm the kill! He tears pound after pound of meat from the other tyrannosaur until Loner stops twitching. Then, Devil raises his head to the sky to trumpet his victory! RRRRRAAAARRRRGGGHH!!!! AAARRAAAARRRRRR!!!!!!
WINNER OF THIS ROUND: Devil Dinosaur!
Wounded but victorious, Devil Dinosaur will go on to the Championship Round! BE HERE! Come back for our Second Semi-finals Round tomorrow!
