Page 84 – Your Argument Is Invalid
Your argument is invalid, because dinosaur!
Which one would you revive and why?
- Tyrannosaurus
- Pterosaur
- Spinosaurus
- Brachiosaurus
- None of the above / Other
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I would revive a triceratops because they’re my favorite. All the others are great, too, though.
Did you ever see the old puppet series Dinosaurs? The evil boss was a cranky triceratops. I imagine a revived trike would just like that, grumbling all the way. 🙂
you’ve outdone yourself with the art this time.
seeing a brachiosaurus cervical vertebra through the spinosaurus makes it look like spiny is giving us a baleful glare.
regardless of the problems, jane is right because, as she says, dinosaur.
if it were me without other considerations, pterosaur all the way. flying creatures are fascinating.
for jane, since the idea is to impress the queen, not terrify her, sexy rexy is right out. spiny, in life perhaps bigger and badder than rex, is out for the same reason. brachiosaurus is a herbivore, but the sheer size would wreak havoc getting there. of the four, pterosaur is probably the best for those reasons, but stands a high chance of being summarily shot out of the sky. any of these is formidable enough in one war or another that jane would quite possibly be coopted as a military asset. if available, a corythosaurus might be a good choice. it is large enough to be impressive without being a walking disaster. its duck bill and vocal crest would make it seem not so immediately dangerous, and maybe jane could ingratiate herself by having the critter play a royal anthem through the crest.
Ooh, a duck-billed dino would be great. Imagining one bugling the national anthem is a wonderful visual. 🙂
I believe that there’s only one answer, and it’s T-Rex.*
Man, what an amazing page, Andy! It’s breathtaking!
So is that animation. It’s great to see a master at work.
*T-Rex is the answer to so many of life’s pressing questions.
T-Rex is the answer to many things, except when you need a jar opened, not eating the neighbors, count higher than four (only two fingers), and according to science they leave the biggest piles of poop. P-U.
Dude, this is a SICK page. Angle and composition is so damn good. And Sir Esra’s desperate, futile plea. I love this turn. Good times ahead.
😀 Thank you! Drawing organic shapes was a nice break from architecture. I’m sure an undead dino won’t cause any sort of issues going forward. 😉
That’s got to be my FAVORITE answer. ‘BUT DINOSAUR!!!!”
This is a really great page all round, great art, but the dialogue really makes it. 😀
BUT DINOSAUR!
It’s silly, but this was too good to resist. 🙂
Very few of the dinosaurs will fit through the museum door, having been brought in only a few bones at at time. Destruction, therefore WILL occur. Even the herbivores are too big for comfortable travel through the city.
On the other hand, apparently the resurrectees obey Jane, which may ameliorate the danger the carnivores pose.
All this is moot, of course since the choice will be T-Rex, because DINOSAURS! ^^
Not that I don’t love T-Rex, but if I had to choose, I’d look for an Anklyosaurus.
They’re narrow enough to get through the door (and down the street), they’d be easy to ride on, they could smashy smash anything with that tail, and they’re pretty bulletproof.
On the other hand, a Proper Lady never shows her Ankylosaurus in public! The very idea!
Ah, good point about the doors. There’s also the skylight. I’m having a VERY hard time not spilling the beans here. -_- So hard not to share what’s coming. So hard.
“A Proper Lady never shows her Ankylosaurus” Gahahaha! That’s so terrible it needs to be illustrated.
This is the most awesome splash page ever.
On another note, I do appreciate how the cantankerous Sir Ezra is, ironically, the only voice of reason here. Reviving any of the above is surely going to drain Jane well past the point of exhaustion… right?
But, DIONSAURS!
Jane is already starting to slow down. You better believe it’ll affect her, but DINOSAUR! Well, three out of four are dinos. 😉
Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex.Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex. Poharex.
Screw precautions, revive the freaking Poharex!
I’m not sure I understand. Are you saying you want a Poharex? 😛
Oh my, we might see Poharex in the flesh!! Or maybe skeleton Poharex?
Jane has no common sense, but dinosaurs!
Everything is better with dinosaurs. Everything!
In this world, Poharex and his gang aren’t necessarily fossils, they just faked their ends and are secretly working to support Jane
Best conspiracy theory ever. This needs to be a thing!
That’s one dino-mite diet.
… If she gets that amulet back she could reanimate the entire museum and have an undead dino army.
Sorta like what happens towards the end of that Tamora Pierce book “The Emperor Mage”.
Though that was wild magic combined with a god’s temporary loan of, which was also given without the recipient wanting the thing, the ability to raise the dead.
It would be like trying to herd cats. Giant man-eating, property destroying cats.
Then again, now that I’m actually thinking about it, Daine’s wild magic does allow her to talk to animals and take their forms by that book so that probably helped her antics with that a good bit.
I don’t care which, as long it is done by Ray Harryhausen and not same lamge cgi.
We supply only the best stop-motion monsters here. 🙂
To paraphrase a different quote into this context:
As the number of dinosaurs revived increases, the number of irresolvable situations decreases asymptotically to zero.
Your brilliant formula works so long as “too many freaking undead dinos” does not equal “an irresolvable situation”. 😀
In the future, we have dinosaurs