Jurassic Park: Raptor #1

[informationgeek]

Tagline on the cover: "The Official Continuation of the Hit Movie!"

Writer: Steve Englehart
Pencils/Inks: Armando Gil
Other Penciller/Inker: Dell Barras

10 out of 30 pages



About a few months after the original comic book adaption, there was a series of sequels sometimes referred to as the Raptor Trilogy. None of the original creative team came back and the stories were all written by Steve Englehart. I only have the first part of the trilogy, so let's just focus on that and when I get the rest, I'll come back the series (though I do have intentions on doing other Jurassic Park comics besides the classic ones).





















Yeah... the artwork deevolved from the last series didn't it? The raptors only appeared in five pages of the issue as well...


Anyways, last part of the story tomorrow!

Comments

[ozaline]

I bet the William Stout trading cards were good though, man knows how to draw him some dinos.

[michaelhealy]

After fighting the Hulk for decades General Ross was a natural choice to lead military operations against dinosaurs.

[starwolf_oakley]

I wouldn't mind seeing a Jurassic World comic book that explains everything on Isla Nublar between Jurassic Park and Jurassic World. Did they ever find the remains of the killed characters? What about Site B? And Scarecrow's brain?

[icon_uk]

and of course, the all important question;

"Again? Who the hell gave that island public liability insurance AGAIN??"

[bradygirl_12]

Ha, yes! I was thinking when Jurassic World opened that the insurance premiums must be killer!

[ozaline]

To be fair, they were the victim of industrial sabotage, and the death toll was in the single digits, I am sure the new park had to beef up security, but it seemed to run fine for years till the people decided to be dumbasses.

[shadur]

"No sign of any eggs!" "Good"

Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, General Stick-up-the-ass, are you really that stupid? You already know they're breeding. If they didn't find any eggs in the pen, it means that the main nest is somewhere else.


Please tell me this idiot gets eaten in a way that could have been avoided if he'd only spent thirty seconds listening to the actual experts...

[shadur]

On the other hand, they'd already lost control because of a flawed assumption (that the dinos couldn't breed) that they never even bothered to check.

The industrial sabotage part sparked the disaster, yes, but the failure that set it up happened way earlier.

[ozaline]

Except the population control mechanism has very little bearing on the film.

Malcom says it's not possible, and Doctor Grant finds some eggs and figures out what happened. But out of the killer dinos they face, we still only see one T-rex, and three raptors (even though I think the implication was supposed to be that the lead Raptor was male).

I'd think maybe the sick trike was supposed to have morning sickness, but I am pretty sure egg layers don't get that.

Maybe the park was doomed, but the movie didn't do a good enough job on following up on "nature found a way." I mean they would have noticed eventually, but even the seen where Doctor Grant finds the eggs isn't an "oh shit," scene, it's one of the scenes where he's filled with wonder.

[shadur]

The book goes into significantly more detail in several points, and by the time Grant finds the eggs he already explained the theory.

(Also, no, the sick Triceratops didn't have morning sickness; it was having an allergic reaction to a kind of berry it swallowed while eating new rocks for its gizzard.)

[skemono]

He predicted disaster, and disaster occurred! But that's not proof, that's coincidence!

That's... actually quite true. Jurassic Park went to hell because the people designing it were all imbeciles who were terrible at security, not because "life found a way".

What happened in Jurassic Park could happen to the whole world!

Look... dinosaurs are fascinating animals that have captured the human imagination for their size and imagined ferocity. But they are still animals, not kaiju. Humans are quite accomplished at killing animals, I assure you--we have a lot of practice at it. This isn't a The Thing event where if they get to the wider world they'll endanger all human life. We'll just shoot them.