What do you think?
Rate this book
Dinosaurs vs. Aliens
From the minds of acclaimed filmmaker, Barry Sonnenfeld (Men In Black), and superstar graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison (Batman, The Invisibles, Action Comics, 18 Days), comes Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens, by Liquid Comics. The story focuses on a secret world war battle that was never recorded in our history books. When an alien invasion attacks Earth in the Age of the Dinosaurs, our planet's only saviors are the savage prehistoric beasts which are much more intelligent than humanity has ever imagined
96 pages, Hardcover
First published June 5, 2012
18 people are currently reading
261 people want to read
About the author
Grant Morrison
1,790 books4,596 followersGrant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning their American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then they have written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, they have also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS.
In their secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. They divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.
In their secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. They divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 49 reviews
October 30, 2015
Aliens arrive on Earth during the time of the dinosaurs – what happens next? Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens.
Wow. I had to keep checking the cover of this one. Grant Morrison wrote this? THE Grant Morrison? Wow. I think I’ve found the worst Grant Morrison book ever!
This comic was created purely as a storyboard for a potential film option. Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of the Men in Black movies among others, says as much in his introduction. He had a meeting with his then-new agents, the William Morris Agency, who suggested he create his own creative properties to sell to studios – comics are really big now! etc. So he came up with some half-baked idea about a Native Americans/European settlers analogy starring dinosaurs and aliens and hired Grant Morrison to write it up and Mukesh Singh to draw it. Real creative, Barry!
Because the dinosaurs are the Native American stand-ins, they wear war paint, jewellery and armour – fucking DINOSAURS! How did dinosaurs create any of this shit?! They have talons and claws not digits! How did any of them paint the intricate patterns on their skins and why would it occur to them to do anything like make-up or armour?!!?!
Singh’s art is actually quite nice – very cinematic, epic and detailed. The concept art at the end is clearly meant for Sonnenfeld’s film. Except it looks like when it came to the aliens’ designs he literally went to Alien and ripped off HR Giger’s space jockey! The other aliens have this generic robot-spidery look anyone familiar with sci-fi will have seen before, and there’s a heavy Predator influence in the alien hunters. Not very imaginative at all, but then that’s representative of this entire endeavour.
There is no story. Morrison attempts some hackneyed crap about survival which is beyond tedious and then the rest of this slim book is taken up with shots of the T-Rex chomping on first smaller dinos and then aliens. Ho hum. He really doesn’t make this concept work beyond what any reader hearing the title would expect. Amusingly it says on the last page “End of Part 1” – aww, they thought there’d be a demand for more!
Morrison writes in his introduction: “In a year or two when the whole world's talking about this whole immense dinosaurs versus aliens thing you'll be digging this out and boasting how you saw it here first.” That was four years ago. A quick look on IMDb shows the project as vaguely “in production” and the plot is “unknown” which, having read the book, is actually a very accurate description!
Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens is pure cynical commercialism in the vein of Cowboys Vs. Aliens (which also started life as an incredibly shoddy comic). I assume the critical and commercial failure of the latter is what put Sonnenfeld’s movie in production limbo – good! Garbage like this shouldn’t be rewarded! Also, I expect this kind of crap from Mark Millar but not Grant Morrison so I’m disappointed he’s stooped to that level. Like most books blatantly made to spin a quick profit, Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens is complete rubbish – basically avoid anything with “’Something’ Vs. Aliens” in the title!
Wow. I had to keep checking the cover of this one. Grant Morrison wrote this? THE Grant Morrison? Wow. I think I’ve found the worst Grant Morrison book ever!
This comic was created purely as a storyboard for a potential film option. Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of the Men in Black movies among others, says as much in his introduction. He had a meeting with his then-new agents, the William Morris Agency, who suggested he create his own creative properties to sell to studios – comics are really big now! etc. So he came up with some half-baked idea about a Native Americans/European settlers analogy starring dinosaurs and aliens and hired Grant Morrison to write it up and Mukesh Singh to draw it. Real creative, Barry!
Because the dinosaurs are the Native American stand-ins, they wear war paint, jewellery and armour – fucking DINOSAURS! How did dinosaurs create any of this shit?! They have talons and claws not digits! How did any of them paint the intricate patterns on their skins and why would it occur to them to do anything like make-up or armour?!!?!
Singh’s art is actually quite nice – very cinematic, epic and detailed. The concept art at the end is clearly meant for Sonnenfeld’s film. Except it looks like when it came to the aliens’ designs he literally went to Alien and ripped off HR Giger’s space jockey! The other aliens have this generic robot-spidery look anyone familiar with sci-fi will have seen before, and there’s a heavy Predator influence in the alien hunters. Not very imaginative at all, but then that’s representative of this entire endeavour.
There is no story. Morrison attempts some hackneyed crap about survival which is beyond tedious and then the rest of this slim book is taken up with shots of the T-Rex chomping on first smaller dinos and then aliens. Ho hum. He really doesn’t make this concept work beyond what any reader hearing the title would expect. Amusingly it says on the last page “End of Part 1” – aww, they thought there’d be a demand for more!
Morrison writes in his introduction: “In a year or two when the whole world's talking about this whole immense dinosaurs versus aliens thing you'll be digging this out and boasting how you saw it here first.” That was four years ago. A quick look on IMDb shows the project as vaguely “in production” and the plot is “unknown” which, having read the book, is actually a very accurate description!
Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens is pure cynical commercialism in the vein of Cowboys Vs. Aliens (which also started life as an incredibly shoddy comic). I assume the critical and commercial failure of the latter is what put Sonnenfeld’s movie in production limbo – good! Garbage like this shouldn’t be rewarded! Also, I expect this kind of crap from Mark Millar but not Grant Morrison so I’m disappointed he’s stooped to that level. Like most books blatantly made to spin a quick profit, Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens is complete rubbish – basically avoid anything with “’Something’ Vs. Aliens” in the title!
June 28, 2016
I love the "clash of cultures." It's so vintage Grant Morrison. The pacing is tight, visceral. And the artwork is vivid, amazing.
September 11, 2018
With a title as bombastic, pompous and a little silly sounding as, Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens I couldn’t help but stifle a giggle behind a façade of (much) expected excess. Much to my chagrin, while certainly reveling in its own unabashed wankery there is a relatively decent story running underneath (at least until half-way through the series). Sure, it’s nothing particularly original, gleaning what it likes from established sources in the Evil Colonizer type plots of both the fictional variety made famous by: Cameron’s 1492, Costner’s Dances with Wolves, or more recently 2009’s Avatar (which also ripped from the aforementioned). Sampling well known-known’s is nothing new but perhaps there is a reason no one ever did it with Dinosaurs and. Aliens.
No matter how much the milieu of comics has evolved and matured over the years, they by in large still retain puerile-imaginativeness (that Watchmen effectively critiqued) to their detriment. Case in point here, we’ve given the forms and functions of a “*Golly-jee!” fantasy narrative that looks great upon prima facie but becomes less impressive as the details (or lack thereof are studied). Seemingly devoid of a single scintilla of research, analogizing the indigenous sedentary people of South America who had established most all the vestiges of basic civilization: government, written language, roads, etc., with non-sentient dinosaurs is ineffective, crude, and actually quite demeaning.
All the more tarnishing is the lack of moral weight within. Much akin to the colonizing-husk leaving aliens of Independence Day, the erstwhile bad guys are established as something of a cosmic arachnid hive that has evolved itself along a highly militarized and stratified HoneyBee-like society. Sans an imperative such as Manifest Destiny, or an emotional connection such as the *immigrant story, our colonizers are far more robotic than organic. So when they show up and crush some of the natives, there is no weight emotionally nor ethically.
As an exercise in Colonialism, Morrison’s Aliens vs. Dinosaurs dichotomous view actually would seem to favor the history written by the victors. With subaltern views encapsulated in about a third of the comic, the indigenous analogues (the reptilians) aren’t much more than biological automatons that haven’t even taken the first steps on the evolutionary ladder toward civilization. Insulting the colonizees by equating them with animals first, the second blow sings something of a thinly hidden paean toward the colonizers. With a civilization spanning thousands of years, replete with all her blessings, the aliens are presented in a far more sympathetic light.
In either case, whatever your opinions on colonialism or any of the other underlying structures and set of themes within, Dinosaurs Vs. Zombies is a fragmentary experiment in comic book formatted masturbation that has yet to have Pt. 2 added. And with good reason it doesn’t deserve that next chapter. Simply said enough, everything done here on a thematic, structural, and philosophical level is far exceeded by another antiquated predecessor, Planet of the Apes. Weaving a great story around such numerable ideas and controversial notions, it deserved its sequels in all their varieties.
Morrison has a lot to study if he really wants to dazzle us with a follow-up.
No matter how much the milieu of comics has evolved and matured over the years, they by in large still retain puerile-imaginativeness (that Watchmen effectively critiqued) to their detriment. Case in point here, we’ve given the forms and functions of a “*Golly-jee!” fantasy narrative that looks great upon prima facie but becomes less impressive as the details (or lack thereof are studied). Seemingly devoid of a single scintilla of research, analogizing the indigenous sedentary people of South America who had established most all the vestiges of basic civilization: government, written language, roads, etc., with non-sentient dinosaurs is ineffective, crude, and actually quite demeaning.
All the more tarnishing is the lack of moral weight within. Much akin to the colonizing-husk leaving aliens of Independence Day, the erstwhile bad guys are established as something of a cosmic arachnid hive that has evolved itself along a highly militarized and stratified HoneyBee-like society. Sans an imperative such as Manifest Destiny, or an emotional connection such as the *immigrant story, our colonizers are far more robotic than organic. So when they show up and crush some of the natives, there is no weight emotionally nor ethically.
As an exercise in Colonialism, Morrison’s Aliens vs. Dinosaurs dichotomous view actually would seem to favor the history written by the victors. With subaltern views encapsulated in about a third of the comic, the indigenous analogues (the reptilians) aren’t much more than biological automatons that haven’t even taken the first steps on the evolutionary ladder toward civilization. Insulting the colonizees by equating them with animals first, the second blow sings something of a thinly hidden paean toward the colonizers. With a civilization spanning thousands of years, replete with all her blessings, the aliens are presented in a far more sympathetic light.
In either case, whatever your opinions on colonialism or any of the other underlying structures and set of themes within, Dinosaurs Vs. Zombies is a fragmentary experiment in comic book formatted masturbation that has yet to have Pt. 2 added. And with good reason it doesn’t deserve that next chapter. Simply said enough, everything done here on a thematic, structural, and philosophical level is far exceeded by another antiquated predecessor, Planet of the Apes. Weaving a great story around such numerable ideas and controversial notions, it deserved its sequels in all their varieties.
Morrison has a lot to study if he really wants to dazzle us with a follow-up.
August 21, 2022
I'll be honest right off the bat here... Dinosaurs Vs Aliens was a travesty on all fronts. This was surprisingly off beat and wide of the usual mark for Morrison's writing and the whole thing seemed sloppy and utterly unfinished.
I'm unsure what happened here with this book - there was once discussions of a movie adaptation, which have long since disappeared and there is no continuation of the book itself either.
That said, despite the poor writing, lack of plot and zero characterization, the artwork - particularly the pencils - are quite nice here. It's sadly spoiled by the odd choice of a misty palette which serves to just glaze over everything making it all very similar in appearance.
The concept is taken far too seriously for what it is, and to be blunt, comes across as utterly bizarre and conceited when you're informed that this is actually a metaphor for Native America!
I read Dinosaurs Vs Aliens with a group of friends as we thought it sounded like silly fun. It turns out this was the most unfunny joke that four people ever involved themselves in. Avoid.
___________________
My Score: 2/10
My Goodreads: ⭐
___________________
I'm unsure what happened here with this book - there was once discussions of a movie adaptation, which have long since disappeared and there is no continuation of the book itself either.
That said, despite the poor writing, lack of plot and zero characterization, the artwork - particularly the pencils - are quite nice here. It's sadly spoiled by the odd choice of a misty palette which serves to just glaze over everything making it all very similar in appearance.
The concept is taken far too seriously for what it is, and to be blunt, comes across as utterly bizarre and conceited when you're informed that this is actually a metaphor for Native America!
I read Dinosaurs Vs Aliens with a group of friends as we thought it sounded like silly fun. It turns out this was the most unfunny joke that four people ever involved themselves in. Avoid.
___________________
My Score: 2/10
My Goodreads: ⭐
___________________
February 20, 2013
YES!!! YES!!! This was the book for my soul!
August 11, 2022
Dinosaurs vs Aliens seem like a premise as absurd as Nazis in Space or Sharnado. So I went into the volume expecting nothing but some good mind numbing action and a nice palette cleanser before delving into the next 'serious' story. But I was in for a surprise, a pleasant one.
The premise of the comic, self-evident, revolves around a few tens of thousands of space faring aliens, the final dying embers of some doomed planet, reaching prehistoric earth following a long generational exodus.
Their numbers were limited, resources dwindling, the engines which carried them through space crippled. This, coupled with the dangerously sparse gene pool to cultivate future generations meant that Earth was all that they had.
The good news, the planet was rich in natural resources, contained a breathable atmosphere and was ripe for colonization.
The bad news, the local dominant species, a couple of hundreds of millions of Dinosaurs, had no intention of sharing their planet. Oh, and unlike what we thought, they were intelligent and capable of rudimentary social behavior, aka Smart gals
With little choice, and facing impending extinction, the aliens decide to be the evil that their species required them to be, for generations to come. Using their advanced technologies, they heralded what they thought would be a quick, efficient genocide against the local populace. Little did they know, they had just rung the bells for their own annihilation.
What happened in the war between Dinosaurs & Aliens?
How did Dinosaurs with sticks and stones fight and win (?) against the space faring aliens (?)
Did the aliens cause the mass extinction of Dinosaurs & eventual rise of mammals (?)
Did the aliens really go extinct, or are we the descendants of ancient Aliens (?)
These and many more questions will be answered in.....Never.
They'll never be answered because there is no Second volume, the comic was canned. And the first volume abruptly cuts off with the prelude of the war. We will never know.
Which is same, because this had more to offer than one would think, from such a pulpy title.
For one, the artstyle is pretty good for an almost unknown IP from an unknown publisher.
The Story was written by Grant Morrison, so it has the professional flourish of a seasoned writer.
It has good depth, especially in the way it introduced the story as if the final message of a dead race. The dinosaurs are all bedecked in bones, ceremonial feathers and furs and clearly exhibit intelligence. Even though they don't have a line of dialogue other than guttural animal noises, their thoughts, motivations and conflicts are conveyed beautifully through visual story telling.
So again, It's a Damn big shame that this story will be relegated to the heap of unfinished comic titles, never again to see the light of day.
The premise of the comic, self-evident, revolves around a few tens of thousands of space faring aliens, the final dying embers of some doomed planet, reaching prehistoric earth following a long generational exodus.
Their numbers were limited, resources dwindling, the engines which carried them through space crippled. This, coupled with the dangerously sparse gene pool to cultivate future generations meant that Earth was all that they had.
The good news, the planet was rich in natural resources, contained a breathable atmosphere and was ripe for colonization.
The bad news, the local dominant species, a couple of hundreds of millions of Dinosaurs, had no intention of sharing their planet. Oh, and unlike what we thought, they were intelligent and capable of rudimentary social behavior, aka Smart gals
With little choice, and facing impending extinction, the aliens decide to be the evil that their species required them to be, for generations to come. Using their advanced technologies, they heralded what they thought would be a quick, efficient genocide against the local populace. Little did they know, they had just rung the bells for their own annihilation.
What happened in the war between Dinosaurs & Aliens?
How did Dinosaurs with sticks and stones fight and win (?) against the space faring aliens (?)
Did the aliens cause the mass extinction of Dinosaurs & eventual rise of mammals (?)
Did the aliens really go extinct, or are we the descendants of ancient Aliens (?)
These and many more questions will be answered in.....Never.
They'll never be answered because there is no Second volume, the comic was canned. And the first volume abruptly cuts off with the prelude of the war. We will never know.
Which is same, because this had more to offer than one would think, from such a pulpy title.
For one, the artstyle is pretty good for an almost unknown IP from an unknown publisher.
The Story was written by Grant Morrison, so it has the professional flourish of a seasoned writer.
It has good depth, especially in the way it introduced the story as if the final message of a dead race. The dinosaurs are all bedecked in bones, ceremonial feathers and furs and clearly exhibit intelligence. Even though they don't have a line of dialogue other than guttural animal noises, their thoughts, motivations and conflicts are conveyed beautifully through visual story telling.
So again, It's a Damn big shame that this story will be relegated to the heap of unfinished comic titles, never again to see the light of day.
May 4, 2019
Apparently this was never resolved from volume one to volume two, since there is no volume two. Ah well. And there's a movie script? Very expensive movie to make from two people who don't have the cachet they used to.
January 25, 2026
It’s really pretty and kind of intriguing, but loses a lot of points for being unfinished.
August 12, 2022
Grant Morrisonin käsikirjoittama, elokuvistaan paremmin tunnetun Barry Sonnenfieldin ideoima ja Mukesh Singhin ihan vinkeästi kuvittama "Dinosaurs vs. Aliens" (Dynamite, 2012) on sarjakuva - aivan oikein - dinosaurusten ja avaruusolioiden välisestä taistelusta. Siis DINOSAURUSTEN JA AVARUUSOLIOIDEN VÄLISESTÄ TAISTELUSTA!
Mikä voisi olla huikeampaa? Okei, se oli kompa. Ei tietysti mikään.
Sarjakuvasta on valitettavasti yritetty tehdä allegoriaa Amerikan alkuperäisväestöjen kohtelusta, mikä on tietysti ihan hölmöä, koska DINOSAURUSTEN JA AVARUUSOLIOIDEN VÄLINEN TAISTELU riittäisi itsessään hyväksi juoneksi. Lisäksi ensimmäisessä osassa ei päästä vielä kunnolla taistelemaan, vaan juonta pohjustellaan pitemmän kaavan kautta. Siksi annan vain kolme tähteä.
PS: Pelkään pahoin, että dinosaurukset häviävät.
Mikä voisi olla huikeampaa? Okei, se oli kompa. Ei tietysti mikään.
Sarjakuvasta on valitettavasti yritetty tehdä allegoriaa Amerikan alkuperäisväestöjen kohtelusta, mikä on tietysti ihan hölmöä, koska DINOSAURUSTEN JA AVARUUSOLIOIDEN VÄLINEN TAISTELU riittäisi itsessään hyväksi juoneksi. Lisäksi ensimmäisessä osassa ei päästä vielä kunnolla taistelemaan, vaan juonta pohjustellaan pitemmän kaavan kautta. Siksi annan vain kolme tähteä.
PS: Pelkään pahoin, että dinosaurukset häviävät.
May 12, 2013
A very promising and good, but incomplete, story. Art is fantastic. Just as the story reaches crescendo, it is over. A continuation is implied but I have not seen any news about a part two. Thus, 3 stars.
October 22, 2012
The first part of an epic look at an existential war.
July 7, 2025
This is officially the stupidest comic book about dinosaurs I’ve ever encountered. If this hadn’t come out in 2011 I could totally believe this was written by a particularly idiotic version of AI.
The dinosaurs are just dinosaurs, yet they’re wearing war paint and costumes. There’s no explanation for it, they just are. The aliens are killing the dinosaurs because reasons. I’m guessing it’s meant to be an allegory for Europeans encountering Native Americans, but it’s so ridiculously weird that you can’t even laugh at how preposterous it is.
I can’t believe this was written by Grant Morrison. The idea by Barry Sonnenfeld feels like something a 14-year-old boy would come up with the first time he got drunk and smoked weed. I hope Morrison got paid a crap-ton of money for this drivel.
And yet the art by Mukesh Singh is astonishingly great. An internet search turns up a number of comic book covers he’s done, so I’ve seen his work before, but this is the first time I knew his name and have seen his sequential work. It’s genuinely great.
The dinosaurs are just dinosaurs, yet they’re wearing war paint and costumes. There’s no explanation for it, they just are. The aliens are killing the dinosaurs because reasons. I’m guessing it’s meant to be an allegory for Europeans encountering Native Americans, but it’s so ridiculously weird that you can’t even laugh at how preposterous it is.
I can’t believe this was written by Grant Morrison. The idea by Barry Sonnenfeld feels like something a 14-year-old boy would come up with the first time he got drunk and smoked weed. I hope Morrison got paid a crap-ton of money for this drivel.
And yet the art by Mukesh Singh is astonishingly great. An internet search turns up a number of comic book covers he’s done, so I’ve seen his work before, but this is the first time I knew his name and have seen his sequential work. It’s genuinely great.
October 28, 2025
Primero que todo: yo fui ese niño obsesionado con los dinosaurios. En parte todavía lo soy, es cierto, así que cuando me topé con este comic lo leí apenas pude. El dibujo es increíble y logra satisfacer a alguien como yo, aun sabiendo que no es preciso. Pero estamos ante una historia de ciencia ficción, no de la dura, sino una palomitera. ¿Eso es bueno o malo? Tómenlo como quieran, yo personalmente soy -y defensor- capaz de suspender la razón un rato y dejarse llevar por una tomadura de pelo como esta.
El gran gran gran problema de Dinosaurs vs Aliens es que solo es una idea. Un boceto de lo que pudo ser. La idea de Morrison y Sonnenfeld era concretar una película que, más de diez años después, no se ha concretado. Es lamentable porque en esta breve historia vemos un camino interesante. Un hilo a seguir que llegaba a una loca metáfora sci-fi del despojo de los pueblos americanos, donde los invasores se encontraron una respuesta más firma que la esperada (los mismos autores confirman esta idea).
Dinosaurs vs Aliens es una lectura interesante, rápida y entretenida pero frustrante, ya que probablemente nunca sepamos cómo concluirá esta historia.
El gran gran gran problema de Dinosaurs vs Aliens es que solo es una idea. Un boceto de lo que pudo ser. La idea de Morrison y Sonnenfeld era concretar una película que, más de diez años después, no se ha concretado. Es lamentable porque en esta breve historia vemos un camino interesante. Un hilo a seguir que llegaba a una loca metáfora sci-fi del despojo de los pueblos americanos, donde los invasores se encontraron una respuesta más firma que la esperada (los mismos autores confirman esta idea).
Dinosaurs vs Aliens es una lectura interesante, rápida y entretenida pero frustrante, ya que probablemente nunca sepamos cómo concluirá esta historia.
July 17, 2019
God, this was a steaming pile of dino-turds... But what else would it be with that title? The artwork is great, but the story - I use that term loosely - is stupid, cliched and actually quite boring. Thankfully, it's a quick read. It stops before really getting started though. It was obviously meant to be a multiple series, but someone smelled that turd in time to stop it.
April 5, 2021
>2.5 stars<
Essential a high quality promo/intro for a putative Barry Sonnenfeld film; which I assume, after all this time, is still stuck in development hell. Lush artwork by Mukesh Singh lifts the entire book, but it is only the start of a story, the first chapter...and TBH I'm not bothered that it's never been completed or followed up...
Essential a high quality promo/intro for a putative Barry Sonnenfeld film; which I assume, after all this time, is still stuck in development hell. Lush artwork by Mukesh Singh lifts the entire book, but it is only the start of a story, the first chapter...and TBH I'm not bothered that it's never been completed or followed up...
September 15, 2019
It has dinosaurs in battle armour. 100% would recommend.
September 18, 2019
2 stars for the art alone, really. Even that came off as confusing. Strong concept, flat execution.
Want to read
January 16, 2020good
December 24, 2021
The most important piece of literature of our generation.
February 3, 2022
What can I say about this. It's a shame that there is only one volumen. The art was fantastic, the story wasn't that good at least not in this volumen. But the concept is nice.
January 13, 2026
The art work is quite fun, the characters simple yet promising, for what story there is and intended to be, it's fine. Thankfully, a teacher uploaded this for free.
January 25, 2026
This was an really interesting read! It sucks that they didn’t get to finish the concept so it definitely ends on a cliffhanger but still worth the read!
October 2, 2013
It was descent. Honestly the art was some of the best ive ever seen, the art was really good but the whole thing was very short. I probably read it in like 15 minutes or less when it would normally take me about 45 minutes to finish a whole graphic novel, and yes it is a graphic novel. Its basically just about earth in the dinosaur age and how aliens come. It didnt explain that much and all the dinosaurs can do to communicate is grunt and growl so no you cant understand them in the book, the aliens do talk though. So the aliens have speech bubbles and the dinosaurs dont. Like i said, not much happened in it, all that really happened was the aliens came to earth and did a little research and exploring and then it kicks off what the main story will be about on the last few pages. It was ok but not that good, and very short. Its generally very unclear on why many things happen and a lot of the story and events are random and dont have much meaning in the story. And as i said earlier nothing big really happens until the very end, and what i mean by that is its pretty boring with no real events that have meaning. The best part is the art sadly. I was really expecting more from the authors and creators considering they made men in black, and action comics. SO IN A NUTSHELL: it was very short and much of it didnt make much sense, amazing art but not much happens until the very end.
Art:9
Story:5
Action:5
Characters:4
(out of ten)
Art:9
Story:5
Action:5
Characters:4
(out of ten)
July 23, 2013
Background: I am an aspiring graphic novel, comic book, manga reader. I picked up this title based on the title alone (really?? Dinosaurs "vs." aliens??), and the beautiful cover art was a bonus.
Essentially, I thought/think this work is beautiful in terms of both its concept and the art. I really like how the story interprets the theme of colonization through this fantastical context, and especially how it visually depicts the dinosaurs with cultural decoration (literally with headdresses, warrior paint, beading, etc.).
The artwork is beautiful. I'm a big fan of realistic illustration and I love the detail and fusion of colour that the artist transcribes into each pane and the varying use of clean lines and jagged frames to articulate the scenes.
I think that this work is a springboard for the reader's imagination, offering a very interesting look into a clash of cultures in the context of survival. Given the mature subject matter and occasional graphic violence (there are dinosaurs, and there are aliens, after all), it's definitely a novel to be appreciated by the young adult-adult crowd. But the artwork! That, for me, is one of the main appeal factors.
Essentially, I thought/think this work is beautiful in terms of both its concept and the art. I really like how the story interprets the theme of colonization through this fantastical context, and especially how it visually depicts the dinosaurs with cultural decoration (literally with headdresses, warrior paint, beading, etc.).
The artwork is beautiful. I'm a big fan of realistic illustration and I love the detail and fusion of colour that the artist transcribes into each pane and the varying use of clean lines and jagged frames to articulate the scenes.
I think that this work is a springboard for the reader's imagination, offering a very interesting look into a clash of cultures in the context of survival. Given the mature subject matter and occasional graphic violence (there are dinosaurs, and there are aliens, after all), it's definitely a novel to be appreciated by the young adult-adult crowd. But the artwork! That, for me, is one of the main appeal factors.
August 3, 2012
I read this in literally 10 minutes tops and the 3 stars is charitable. You get the impression that this takes you through perhaps the first 20 minutes of the proposed film and ends just at the point where you'd get the first major action set-piece. Morrison does play with the idea that dinosaurs had some different form of intelligence- they use decorative headwear and show rudimentary emotions for example. The Art starts off stunningly detailed then goes off the rails considerably when the action enters the aliens vessel and the arts style change to a flatter more drab palette. It's too severe a change to be comfortable and leaves me with the impression that the artist was really enjoying himself with the overall world of the dinosaurs and had much less enthusiasm for the aliens side of the story.
September 12, 2015
The art is beautiful, the story is slow moving (at least until near the end of the first volume), the concept is high - aliens vs dinosaurs. But the dinosaurs are a bit more than you would expect - the concept of them having a culture and being more than just savages is interesting, if not fully explored here. And that's the biggest problem - nothing is fully explored here. The book is just under 100 pages, and fully a third of that is art and script pages, not story. It just starts actually being interesting when it stops. Hopefully further volumes do more, but I don't know how much else got created. I'd say don't start unless you can get further than this volume, because this is basically a teaser and will leave you unfulfilled.
September 7, 2014
I get it. Impossible premise. Can't expect much. Okay.
Bu dinosaurs who are so advanced they create elaborate headresses for themselves (with bones, parts of other dinosaurs apparently, feathers, and some kind of rope material--BTW how the heck does Tyrannosaurus rex tie ANYTHING?) and can mount a collective resistance against an alien force?
Sorry. Great art, but not only were none of the dinosaurs real, the story was very limited and this left on a cliffhanger with no real resolution. Perhaps there will be more to come.
I won't be worried about it, though, as this was quite lackluster.
Bu dinosaurs who are so advanced they create elaborate headresses for themselves (with bones, parts of other dinosaurs apparently, feathers, and some kind of rope material--BTW how the heck does Tyrannosaurus rex tie ANYTHING?) and can mount a collective resistance against an alien force?
Sorry. Great art, but not only were none of the dinosaurs real, the story was very limited and this left on a cliffhanger with no real resolution. Perhaps there will be more to come.
I won't be worried about it, though, as this was quite lackluster.
February 2, 2015
DINOSAAAAAUUUUURRRRSSSSSS!
Stunning artwork that intrigues and inspires-- added bonus of concept sketches. (One can never have enough concept sketches.)
Pretty rad I'm not alone in the idea that dinosaurs very well could have been far more than we suspect. Loved how this was executed. Set the perfect tone.
It's clear that this is just a taste of what's yet to come. And yet even if it were to fall through and this stood as all there would be... the art is so delicious I could return again and again.
My 4yr old self cuddles this so hard.
Pfft. My 28yr old self cuddles this so hard.
Stunning artwork that intrigues and inspires-- added bonus of concept sketches. (One can never have enough concept sketches.)
Pretty rad I'm not alone in the idea that dinosaurs very well could have been far more than we suspect. Loved how this was executed. Set the perfect tone.
It's clear that this is just a taste of what's yet to come. And yet even if it were to fall through and this stood as all there would be... the art is so delicious I could return again and again.
My 4yr old self cuddles this so hard.
Pfft. My 28yr old self cuddles this so hard.
August 26, 2016
I was very disappointed with it. You've got two great talents (comic book writer Grant Morrison, director Barry Sonnenfeld). You've got a fun idea. And yet the story's incredibly mediocre. It seemed like they tried to overthink it.
Let's put the dinosaurs in tribal colors and create a clash of civilizations similar to Europeans vs Native Americans!
Then pretend this is a great sweeping epic by dragging the story out so nothing happens and you'll have to get the next book to continue.
And then hug ourselves for being visionaries!
Yeah. This one's a stinker.
Let's put the dinosaurs in tribal colors and create a clash of civilizations similar to Europeans vs Native Americans!
Then pretend this is a great sweeping epic by dragging the story out so nothing happens and you'll have to get the next book to continue.
And then hug ourselves for being visionaries!
Yeah. This one's a stinker.
February 26, 2018
I'll start out by saying the artwork is absolutely gorgeous. Simply stunning work on the dinosaurs, some of whom are the traditional lumbering reptiles and others the updated feathered creatures.
The storyline didn't intrigue me as much as it could have, however--and the inspiration behind the story is rather cringey. (The advanced alien race as the European pilgrims and the dinosaurs as Native American tribes? Errgghh...)
That said, if you love nature artwork and dinosaurs, the eye popping visuals alone are worth a look.
The storyline didn't intrigue me as much as it could have, however--and the inspiration behind the story is rather cringey. (The advanced alien race as the European pilgrims and the dinosaurs as Native American tribes? Errgghh...)
That said, if you love nature artwork and dinosaurs, the eye popping visuals alone are worth a look.
Displaying 1 - 30 of 49 reviews