Today on ComicsAlliance, I’m welcoming Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard’s Super Dinosaur to the world by detailing its competition! It’s a rundown of the Greatest Dinosaurs In Comics, and while it’s pretty obvious which one scores a perfect ten, it came as a surprise even to me that that I have so much hate for Sauron. Seriously though, the hell with that guy.
The hell with him!
Boy, you really have issues with everything the X-Men did in the 90’s, do you? Dude, Sauron is awesome. He was in the animated series, and he looked great. Admit it.
“BONK! BONK! BONK!”
Hee hee! That never gets old!
The fact that you hadn’t heard of Godzillasaurus suggests to me that you are not familiar with the 80s-90s “Heisei” era of Godzilla films, which must be remedied ASAP. Particularly because the same movie that introduced Godzillasaurus also revealed that Godzilla fought for the Japanese during WWII and ended with a battle against a cyborg version of King Ghidorah from the future.
Boy, you really have issues with everything the X-Men did in the 90′s, do you?
Actually, I don’t have those issues, because my house is not a quarter bin.
Ba-Zing!
Seriously though, Sauron is ALMOST perfect, but they pushed him one ‘cool’ step too far. Its like a little kid designing a superhero or a monster, but he goes “and he has THIS power, and THIS power, and THIS power… one too many times. You had something awesome until you added unrelated hypnosis gimmicks. An evil scientist who is also a dinosaur is pretty damn awesome, on the surface. but ‘psychic vampire’ while kind of awesome as a totally separate villain… is kind of lame when mashed together.
The “Godzilla got busy” panel ALWAYS makes me laugh. I’ve got to find that book.
Although I always considered Devil Dinosaur and Moonboy as a goofy concept, seeing that Kirby cover posted up here made me smile. Love it.
–B
Errr… the X-men’s Sauron is from the 60s, not the 90s. And I couldn’t agree more that the 90s were a dire decade for the X-men.
Keen article; definitely feeling inspired to track down some Atomic Robo and Major Bummer. Where’d that awesome first piece of Godzilla art come from (the not-Barkley one)?
Personally, I’ve always loved Transformers because at the core they are cars and trucks that are also giant fighting robots, which at the very least is two great toys for the price of one. But that core concept gets muddled with puzzling frequency, so I can’t fault your disinterest. The best exception is (was) Transformers Animated, the “Friendship is Magic” of the Transformers franchise from a couple years back.