well, that ends this little dinosaur storyline. it’s not easy making an engaging comic out of a biology/geology lesson, but i hope you all enjoyed it. expect wholesome space comics to resume again shortly. :D
Posts tagged tyrannosaurus
cretaceous
obligatory fun fact: the word ‘cretaceous’ comes from the latin word for ‘chalk’ (creta), because the big chalk deposits in western europe were made in the cretaceous period. so next time you’re falling asleep in class, just remember the writing on the blackboard you’re totally ignoring is actually made of dead algae that lived alongside t-rexes.
…that is, unless you’re teacher uses gypsum-based chalk… in which case never mind.
the great dying
oh boy, i did a lot of wikipedia bingeing to learn about geological timescales for this comic (and the next few), but here are the cliff’s notes:
the history of the earth is divided into 4 ‘eons’, the current one is called the ‘phanerozoic’, and it’s been going for the last 300 million years. basically everything interesting to do with evolution happens here.
the phanerozoic is divided into 3 ‘eras’:
the ‘paleozoic’ (boring single-celled organisms -> cambrian explosion -> much more fun organisms, yay!)
the ‘mesozoic’ (dinosaurs, yay!)
the ‘cenozoic’ (no more dinosaurs, boo!)
each era can be divided into ‘periods’ (we’re currently in the quaternary), and each period can be divided into ‘epochs’ (we’re in the holocene) if you wanna get real fancy. so it goes eon->era->period->epoch. remember that kids, you’ll be tested on it later (maybe).
play?
sedna makes dini an offer he can’t refuse.
if you haven’t noticed by now, i’m a big fan of silent comics. personally, after page after page of dialogue, i love to take a break and let the pictures tell the story. visual storytelling is always more important than verbal storytelling in my opinion. especially with comics.
dinosaur collection
i just assume sedna carries a prop asteroid around at all times, just in case there are some dinosaur plushies lying around which need smashing.
and spoiler alert: she definitely will not stop calling him “future husband”.
roar
when sedna turns into a horror movie.
i’ve decided i don’t enjoy drawing characters in the mirror, on account of me being stupid and always forgetting to flip them around.
tyrannosaurus
yay! it’s dinosaur storyline time! i totally neglected dino comics in the old sedna comic, and i feel like i let dini down a little. in my defence though, dinosaurs are pretty hard to draw, as evidenced by my mediocre attempt here.
and before you ask, yes, i am 100% down to start selling dinosaur plushie merch once once there’s enough demand for it (all the more reason to tell your friends about sedna, just saying :D).
a boy and his dinosaur
(click here for a high resolution version of this illustration)
oh boy. this one took me a long time to draw. illustration is so haaard! what am i even doing drawing a webcomic?
fun fact: a fully-grown t-rex would be over 5 metres from head to bum, much larger than this little guy.
fun fact 2: grass didn’t exist in the mesozoic when the dinos were kicking around, meaning the time traveller in this imaginary scenario isn’t dini but the t-rex.