4 winged dinosaur on Nova

On Tuesday PBS will run a Nova episode on Microraptor, a dinosaur with 4 'wings'. I'm hoping it will be pretty good since most of the dinosaur specials I've seen recently were shall we say, not good. Last Sunday Discovery Channel ran a show called something like Reviving or Recreating the Dinosaurs. It's all about retro-enginering dinosaurs since we most likely will never be able to get enough DNA from them. I actually enjoyed this, they showed that chicken embryos actually have 16 tail vertebra when they start forming but then reduce it to 5 before they hatch, Archeopteryx, the first animal that's called a bird had 15 tail vertebra. They added a protein or something and got the tail to produce 20 or so tail vertebra. Neat, take that creationists! They also managed to grow teeth and they showed the developing hand of a chicken embryo which looks exactly like a theropod hand. The fact that these guys are descended from birds is absolute after seeing this.

I also watched a show on NatGeo about genetics which was really cool, They had naked chickens! No feathers, no scales, just skin. They were really odd to look at. They also had cows with double the muscle mass of a normal animal, these guys were buff! I was really interesting.

Chuck will not showing any new episodes until this fall:( But the Big Bang Theory will start back up with new episodes in March. No word yet on House, Bones or The Terminator. Psych will have new shows in the summer. I have heard nothing about Eureka, hopefully soon.

Here's a Nannotyrannus for your viewing pleasure. Some think it's just a juvenile of T. rex, but the brain shape is very different looking.

Best,

Brett

Answer me these questions....one?

Scifi channel has a poll to see what your 10 favorite scifi movies are. So what are yours?

Here are mine, these are the only ones I could think of:)

1.The Matrix

2. Aliens

3. The Terminator

4. Jurassic Park

5. Alien

6. Tron

7. Men in Black

8. Stargate

9. 2001: A Space Odyssey

10. Empire Strikes Back

Best,

Brett

Happy Easter!

The dogs ate my pencil the other day. I got a new one but it's not 'right' so I'm hoping to find another one like my last one today. Wish me luck:)

So a few weeks ago I decided to see what all the hullabaloo was about this book I keep hearing will change my life, is the greatest book ever written, will make me see the light. I'm talking, of course, of the Bible. As I was reading it, I've come across a few things that I'm not sure of or want clarification of.

1. What's the difference between the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life?

2. There are 2 different creation stories, which one is considered the more accurate on?

3. God created light on the first day but didn't create the Sun and moon until later, what is this light?

4. Why did God punish everyone for being evil and bad with the flood, but he has yet to give them any commandments?

5. Are the Nephillum the 'Giants' or are they more like Demigods, human size but great warriors? I read it as the latter.

6. If everything on the earth was killed except the animals/humans on the arc, how are there still Giants later on?

7. After the flood, Noah kills a bunch of the pure animals? Why would you go to all the trouble of saving these animals and then kill them before they can reproduce?

8. IF god is omnipotent why didn't he know what Adam and Eve did when they did it?

9. Adam and Eve have just eaten the fruit (no mention of apples I'm afraid) Now they suddenly see they are naked and are ashamed. So what? I mean they've been wondering around naked for how long?

10. The Lord is mentioned as the highest god. DOes that mean there are others?

11. It appears that Egypt has been around for a lot longer than Man, what's up with that?

12. Why does god punish the humans for making the Tower of Bable? We've been to outer space, no heaven there, I doubt a big tower would have gotten 'higher'.

13. Where does Cain get his wife from? There are only 4 people on the planet at that point?

I'm not exactly looking for answers, it's just my tendency to question things:) But if you have a few let me know.

That's all for now.

Best,

Brett

Colorist..again.

GAH!

Well we are currently looking for a new colorst. Georgi had to go back to school (which is really a bummer because he was doing a great job!) So we sent out some art to some colorists too see what we could get.... Well, we got bupkis. I was really not pleased with what we got, since it went to a good coloring/art studio and it was ....unsuitable. So we're currently looking for another colorist. We need quality work so don't waste your time if you've never colored comics before. But, if your interested send me a link via the comments:) I'm looking for a painted look. Similar to the dinosaurs and the cover to #1, cuts and grads will be mocked and pointed at since they look REALLY bad on my art, I know not why.

Well, have at it then:)

Best,

Brett

New Meat Eating Dinosaurs Found!

Special thanks to TCH for pointing this out this morning, made my day:)

New theropods discovered in Africa!

This one has the largest pictures (you'll have to click on them.)

Can't wait to draw these guys!

Best,

Brett

Colortaurus

Just some lame ol' dinosaur;)

These guys are weird:)

Happy Darwin Day!

From wikipedia:

'Darwin Day is a recently instituted celebration intended to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12, 1809. The day is also an opportunity to highlight Darwin's contribution to science and to promote science in general.'

So, raise a glass to honor the man who revolutionized modern science, including: paleontology, anthropology, biology and modern medicine. He might not have gotten everything right but he laid the ground work for others:)

Image via wikipedia.com

Best,

Brett

Hallelujah!

This struck me as funny today.

Atheist sees image of Big Bang on toast!

I'm having problems locating a picture of said toast, but I've heard reports that it was really a bagel;)

Best,

Brett

T.rex

Some more dinosaury goodness;)

For the new book, sort of a companion piece to another picture, I don't want to post them all, what's the point of a book then?

They recently discovered a new theropod called Orkoraptor (named for a river NOT the He-Man character;)) I can't find ANY art or skeletal info so I'm going nuts looking for this stuff. It's a giant (6-7 meter) Compsaugnathus from Southern S. America.

Also the writer strike might be at an end (YEAH!) Hopefully Chuck will be on again soon:)

Best,

Brett

Frankenstein Art on Newsarama

Go here

I hope this works it's acting funny. But if you want to see people toss out insults at me, go ahead it's always fun. Comic book geeks can be jerks, I will go after them if properly angered, dogs decided to get up early. I'm in a bad mood;)

Bestest,

Brett