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Age of Reptiles Omnibus: Volume 1 Kindle & comiXology

by Ricardo Delgado (Author), Various (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
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When Ricardo Delgado—a prolific development and storyboard artist who has worked on such hit films as Men in Black, The Incredibles, WALL-E, X—Men Origins: Wolverine, and the Matrix series—first set his sights on creating comics, he crafted an epic tale about the most unlikely cast of characters: dinosaurs. Since that first foray into the world of sequential art—which earned him an Eisner win for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition—he has returned to his critically acclaimed Age of Reptiles again and again, each time crafting a captivating saga about his saurian subjects.

* This volume collects the long—out—of—print Age of Reptiles and Age of Reptiles: The Hunt, and the never—before—collected third series, Age of Reptiles: The Journey.

"Delgado once more proves that the age of great illustration is alive and well."
—John Landis, Filmmaker, An American Werewolf in London, Michael Jackson's Thriller
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    400 pages
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    English
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    7 - 12
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    Dark Horse Books
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    January 18, 2011
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Ricardo Delgado is a film and comic book artist who has worked on such films as The Incredibles, Men in Black, and Apollo 13. He is the creator of the Age of Reptiles comic book series, as well as one of the production designers of Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Delgado is of Costa Rican descent and lives in Los Angeles, California. He has produced a third Age of Reptiles volume, titled The Journey, for Dark Horse Comics, published in 2010; as well as two novels, Sam Specter and the Book of Spells, a children's genre story; and Warhead, a science fiction crime story. In early 2000 he published the four-issue sci-fi series Hieroglyph. The author lives in Sylmar, California.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A7H2BPS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse Books (January 18, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 18, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Ricardo Delgado (1964) is an artist/writer of Costa Rican descent born and raised in Los Angeles. He has worked in animation, live-action film design, and is best best known for his dinosaur comic book Age of Reptiles, which is published through Dark Horse Comics.

Delgado has also written two novels: Warhead, a gritty, hard-boiled science fiction crime drama inspired by Chandler,Lovecraft and Hammett, along with Sam Specter and the Book of Spells, a family-oriented spooky adventure about a little ghost in a city of skeletons, goblins and ghosts, in the vein of Ray Bradbury.

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Jazamm
5.0 out of 5 stars HOLY MOLY…
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024
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This work is incredible, is revered by and has inspired some of our industry’s greatest talents. Meanwhile Delgado has been working all this time behind the scenes of some of the best-ever films and animation. You cannot miss.
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rosekrystofolski
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommend for anyone interested in dinosaurs
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2023
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Really entertaining book with a lot of drawings of dinosaurs, pterosaurs and marine reptiles form the prehistoric era. The book is full of drawings of all kinds of prehistoric animals and the book is a lot of fun for anyone interested in dinosaurs.
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Simon Fraser
5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular work
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2011
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This book is really a labour of love. Delgado is obviously a superb draftsman and storyteller. In addition he has a considerable understanding of the current paleontological research which he has used to re-create an entire lost ecosystem. The scale of it is breathtaking and the beauty is utterly compelling. Even though there is no dialog and very little text of any kind , the book takes some time to read. The detail and sophistication of Delgado's world is utterly absorbing. You find that you miss things on a cursory read through, so it rewards multiple-readings.
The only thing that annoyed me was the colouring on the initial chapters, which seemed unnecessarily garish. I know that dinosaurs were probably quite colourful, but this goes too far and distracts from the drawings. The majority of the book is coloured differently though which makes me thing that this was an early problem that was then fixed.
If you like comics, dinosaurs or impressive storytelling then I heartily recommend this book.
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Michael Carlos Santayana
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, gruesome, and classic
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2020
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Loved walking with dinosour documentary and so this art drew me in. The books have a fabulous art and the "reread" is still good.
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BW
4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome.
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2011
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If you like (a) great art, (b) great story telling, or (c) dinosaurs, don't miss this book. If you like all of the above, you should really not miss this book. The artwork is stunning, and it's great to have all these stories collected into one omnibus. Unfortunately, the publisher has shortchanged both the artist and the reader, delivering the product in a format substantially SMALLER that the original comic books. Worse, the tight binding on the thick omnibus edition means that you really can't fully open each page to get the full effect of Delgado's numerous and stunning two-page spreads. And the "cover gallery" squeezes two of the original wrap-around covers on to each (small) page.
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Demid Tishin
5.0 out of 5 stars Must buy if you're into dinosaurs. A visual treat.
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2017
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Fantastic collection of visual novels by Delgado, my son (almost 5 years) absolutely loves it. Great example of conveying the message with no words at all. If you're into dinosaurs at all, this is a must.
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Sharifah I
5.0 out of 5 stars An Epic Story With No Words
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2014
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I bought this book for my 12 year old son who is a BIG dinosaur fan. He loved the realistic action in a comic style approach. Even with no words it tells the story of dinosaurs, good and bad. This is a book that even I, as an adult, enjoyed. Looking forward to getting Volume 2.
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Russroom
5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for all Dinosaur fans
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2011
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This is some of the best storytelling and art that anyone has ever done about Dinosaurs. This book belongs right next to the works of Ray Harryhausen, Charles Knight, and a copy of the 1933 version of King Kong. Buy it now and hope that some day we get a high budget animated version.
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Juan Antonio Rodríguez López
5.0 out of 5 stars Gran compra
Reviewed in Spain on December 15, 2017
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Gran Tomo. El precio de los TPBs americanos (tomo recopilatorios en tapa blanda) suelen ser mucho más económicos que lo publicados aquí en España (pero mucho), el problema está en que te tienes que manejar en inglés para disfrutarlos... Pero con este tomo no tendrás problemas, pues no tiene diálogos, son varias historias de dinosaurios, con un dibujo muy bello. Quizás el único pero es el tamaño algo reducido, que hace perder fuerza a un dibujo muy trabajado
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Kuriosus101
5.0 out of 5 stars Meisterwerk
Reviewed in Germany on October 5, 2015
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So muß das sein! Das versteht man unter einer Graphic Novel. Da machen sogar die jeweiligen mit veröffentlichten Vorworte zu lesen Spaß.
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Darth Maciek
5.0 out of 5 stars Speechless, so speechless - and yet so powerful...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2013
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I was very, very pleasantly surprised and even impressed by this collection. Below, you will find more elements, with some limited SPOILERS.

This is a collection of three comics, initially published separately by Dark Horse respectively in 1993, 1997 and 2009. This is a complete collection as, to the best of my knowledge, there were no more "Age of Reptiles" stories published nowhere (and it is a pity by the way...). The stories are called "Tribal warfare" (1993), "The hunt" (1997) and "The journey" (2009).

As the previous reviewer also remarked, those stories are completely DEVOIDED of words. Quite obviously dinosaurs and other animals do not speak, but Richard Delgado also opted for removing all kind of narration - and I must say that I loved it! Kudos for the author here, because making a succesful comic without ANY WORDS at all is much harder than it could seem - but here it was made with a great mastery.

In "Tribal warfare", a Tyrannosaurus family competes with a pack of Deinonychus for limited supply of food in a pretty desolate place - it is clear, that the losers in this confrontation will simply starve...

In "The hunt" the story begins mostly in the same way - a family of Allosaurus competes for food and territory with a pack of the Ceratosaurus, predators even more vicious and definitely bigger than the Deinonychus. Here however the surroundings are somehow less hostile and also at one moment the story has a BIG twist...

Finally, "The journey" describes the seasonal migration of an enormous herd of many varieties of dinosaurs (mostly herbivorous, but with some omnivorous smaller species included) - they are of course followed by predators and scavengers and then, there are some more opportunist big mouths who WAIT for them at some strategically chosen points...

As the previous reviewer very well noticed, author avoided skillfully the trap of "humanizing" the animals (dinosaurs and others). The "heroes" are animals, period. However, Richard Delgado used with great talent all the possibilities animal behaviour offered to him - we know today, that most animals are much more complicated than what was once thought. Animals can go to great lenghts to help other members of their species, they seem to feel regret when one of their herd (family) dies, they can be playful, depressed, jalous, mean and sometimes they can even be simply foolish... All this is used in those three stories, without ever transforming animals in quasi-humans.

Those stories are also pretty violent, as many of the "heroes" are meat-eaters, and there is no way around it - to eat meat you have to kill, and it is never pretty. It is definitely not a comic for the squeamish...

Bottom line, I LOVED "Age of reptiles", I am absolutely keeping this book for another viewing (as there is no reading possible, no matter how hard you try) and recommend it for all comic books afficionados and/or dinosaurs buffs. Enjoy!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Visually stunning storytelling on an epic scale
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2017
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No words in this visual drama, but the storyboard style instantly captures the attention of the young and old alike
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Jose Luis
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book Im happy
Reviewed in Spain on August 27, 2015
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Thanks all right here. Very nice book. Awesome history and wonderfull art.I hope buy here again soon. Thanks for your service
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