I hope to return to the discussion of missing links, here. It's not terribly deep---Conan Doyle is mostly interested in setting up dangers---but it has given me and a friend a different spin on the Lost World. It's fair to say the book could use some more dinosaurs, and amusing to see where they are described inaccurately, as it reminds us of how studies have progressed. I obtained this while looking for more Lost World discussion (there isn't much), courtesy Cold Crash Pictures Commentary: "A few months ago, eodromaeus was named (in a paper co-authored by Paul Soreno), and this guy appears to be even more primitive than eoraptor(previously thought of as the first dinosaur). In fact, eoraptor is now being interpreted by some scientists to represent an early sauropodomorph -- the earliest long-neck -- due to the shape of its skull and the distinctive first digit." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eodromaeus So, as you can see, paleontology's canon continues to ev...

First, I read a friend's idea. I started laying out the figures. Here are the pencils: Next, I started using marker to get bold outlines. I experimented with a bit of white-out. I had the perfect dagger teeth in ol' Devil Dinosaur there then screwed them up trying to "spot blacks" between them in the mouth. I came back with white out and the marker and gradually restored them best I could. I replaced some of my "scratchy" lines for cross=hatching with darker, bolder lines, as my friend Marcus suggested. I spotted more blacks (the fills that provide figure density) and finished up. I'm still open to changes, though. The dinosaur is completely an homage to Jack Kirby! Here I photographed with a bit of warm light on the Spectre. For him, I used no reference save myself, and for Galactus, I referred to Ron Lim's version for details, which is pretty faithful to Kirby.