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Age of Reptiles: The Hunt

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I stumbled upon this book and bought it on the spot (and am back to Amazon for the author's others - just finished buying one). Anyway, it has no words, just [many] pictures. Ricardo Delgado makes pictures worth much more than a thousand words. Each picture adds another part to the story in a really quite clever and interesting way. This story itself is good as well.

The age range indicated is 9 - 12 (which is appropriate, though even adults would like it) but I got this for my 3 year old. He loves dinosaurs, but also it enabled him to look at each picture and tell the story himself (which is supposed help when it comes to reading or something). [As the name implies, there are a few fights amongst them, but nothing too horrid I thought.]

It's hard to discribe the pictures ... for example, to show a particular dinosaur had travelled a long way, you see him walking across several elongated frames, with sun light then fading light, etc. By the end, his head is hanging implying his energy is failing .. To show a year passing at a particular location, it shows first autumn colours, then snow, then spring, etc. These are the two least interesting examples but I didn't want to give anything away and also they were the easiest to describe. The book must be 60 plus pages long with several hundred frames. I think it's something a lot of boys would like, and I took the time to write this because I found it to be sufficiently unique.

PS It's award recognition such as through the 'Eisner Award for Best Limited Series and Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition'.

I'm a dinosaur artist myself, and this book graphically portrays Delgado's dinosaurs as what dinosaurs should be: smart, agile, and fast. His dynamic shading adds real depth to his images. His wordless narations tell you exactly what's happening, and leaves you waiting for a continuation.

This was one of the coolest comics I've ever purchased. I would say It's more of a work of art than a comic. There is no or dialogue, no words of any kind. The magnificent artwork tells the story. If you love art, and, or, dinosaus this is a must have.

Age Of Reptiles: The Hunt Graphic Novel Review

Grade: B+

...I have to say--after Tribal Warfare, the other Age Of Reptiles collection, this one just isn't up to par. It's still a fantastically drawn and written masterpiece, all penned by Ricardo Delgado. But to me, Delgado just doesn't focus on the details and plot Tribal Warfare had.

For instance, The Hunt is about an Allosaur looking to get revenge. A pack of Ceratosaurs have killed his mother, and now they are aiming to kill him. The question is, who will kill each other first? I love the fact that the Ceratosaurs can blend in with their surroundings like chameleons and turn invisible, like the Carnosaurs in Micheal Chricton's The Lost World, but Delgado tends to go off on tangents. He devotes nearly a whole part of the series just to illustrate a pterodactyls struggle to survive. That had nothing to do with the main plot of The Hunt. Maybe he should have turned that into its own spin-off Age Of Reptiles?

Also, their just isn't the intricate details Tribal Warfare featured. In Tribal Warfare nothing went without looking as fully detailed and nice as it could possibly be; The Hunt looked washed down in comparison. To me, it seemed like Delgado just cared a little bit less about The Hunt. Which is understandable; sequels are normally never as good as the original.

Either way, The Hunt is still beautiful. Delgado should continue doing this series--it has real potential. The Hunt may not be as great as Age of Reptiles: Tribal Warfare, but it's a nice to just curl up and read some great dino action.