We get more chances to see them acting as regular wild animals too, drinking, playing and basically living and enjoying life. The resting ‘raptors (only three of them left now) continue to dream about being captured and losing their family, reminding them that humans are their enemy. Whether that was the intention of the writer or whether it was an oversight I don’t know. However, it’s not far fetched to think there could be some kind of genetic memory there. Much better are the pages given over to developing our dinosaur characters Alf, Betty and Cecilia, mainly through a lengthy dream sequence as they finally sleep in peace away from us apes.Ĭlearly we’re getting a translated version of the information their mother passed on to them, she correctly compared the humans behind Jurassic Park to their ancient ancestors, although on Isla Nublar she’d never have seen an actual ape to form a vision in her head to pass on to her hatchlings.

I don’t see the point in this at this late stage and it’s all rather predictable. There are quite a few pages given over to the history between Robert Muldoon and the late George Lawala, how even though they were rivals Lawala saved his life so Robert will avenge his. Joyce (Marvel What The.?!, The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Sensational She-Hulk) and Renée Witterstaetter colours and edits.įor a final chapter there’s more background character information than actual plot. Written by Steve Englehart who has been responsible for every chapter since the adaptation ended, it’s again pencilled by Chaz Truog and inked by Paul Fricke, letters are by new addition Brad K. Back in #14 we had Animals/Men, then Animals/Gods and this issue’s final story is Gods/Men as the now wild Velociraptors once more become the stars of the strip. The first chapter of the mini-series was called Rush! but the following three had much more imaginative titles that changed to match the evolving storyline. As mentioned before this meant nothing to us UK readers because we didn’t know how the comic series was broken up over there, so this just confused us. Story wise the back up is the second half of last month’s Xenozoic Tales story, but first we’ve the final part of the four-issue American comic mini-series ‘Raptors Attack’, which is what is referred to on the cover. We finish what was originally Dark Horse International’s series with another 40-page issue, although the inner 32 pages are of pretty poor stock compared to previous issues. As discussed last time, new publisher Manga Publishing knew this was going to be the end, so it’s rather misleading of editor Dick Hanson not to edit out the subscriptions! There’s no mention of it on the cover or in the editorial, in fact they’re still offering subscriptions to the comic, and there are just two little ‘The End’ captions attached to the final panels of each strip, but this is the last issue of Jurassic Park.

Xenozoic Tales #11 by Mark Schultz