Funny that you mention the story Hornfels. For it is just a few days since a very good friend of mine (the first LBT fan I ever got to know) told me about it. The story is probably not by a German artist. At least the language in much of her other not-English work isn't German. I think it is Finish (that's at least what the artist's profile says).
Oh. Finnish. Right. Heh, sorry, I just kind of guessed, but now that I look back there it does say she's Finnish.
I wonder if the Hornfels comic is finished or if there is more to come. Perhaps it is finished already.
I hope there's more - I even asked her to draw more, but she hasn't replied yet. It could be over, though - most of her comics aren't that long, I don't think.
Sure is a sad and gloomy story; alas one which has often been repeated in history. The pictures are really awesome in transfering the mood of the story. Did you realize that the symbol which is carved into the forehead armour of the Ancylosaurs resembles a swastika?
Yeah, it is a depressing story. I was amazed that the pictures were made using Microsoft Paint, and the coloring was fantastic, too. And, um, I don't know what a swastika is, so...
If it comes to LBT I don't think a real one to one copy of that character would be possible, but somebody similar might
I wasn't really suggesting that there be an exact replica of Hornfels in LBT - that would be a copyright violation.
As a matter of fact I have been thinking a lot about a story including a maimed character who has all reason to feel bitter about live and might even want it to be ended. While not an evil character that character could hardly be labeled good either. That grey zone is rather interesting but also rather tricky.
If you ever get around to writing it, let me know. I don't like black and white characters - they're too...well, cut-through, if that's the right word for it. I prefer grey characters or characters we know hardly anything about, such as the Rainbowfaces.
I have a rather clear idea for that story in mind (made some drawings of some scenes too), but I'm afraid that it would turn out too dark for LBT. Generally I agree that there could be some mature elements, but I'm not really certain if these elements aren't there already, only we don't realize they are
Yes, there are some mature things in LBT, but they aren't really 'stated out loud,' if that makes any sense, which, in my opinion, is a bit brilliant and forces you to look deeper into the movie. But sometimes I like things to be blunt.
Take for example some of the views on the Mysterious Beyond we got in LBT 2 and 3. The landscape consisted to a good deal of the bones of dinosaurs. While this is relatively easy to overlook in a movie I'm sure it would come across as much more dramatic in a written story
Ah, yes! That's a great example! I haven't watched the sequels for a very long time, so I kind of forgot those movies, but I do remember there being lots of bones when the group of five accidentally ventured into the Mysterious Beyond in #2 on a quest to retrieve the egg from Ozzy and Strut.
We even have an execution of sharpteeth who are burried alive while they are defenseless in LBT 6 (and I surely dislike that scene in LBT).
LBT 6...that's the one with Doc, isn't it? If so, that does sound kind of gruesome. But then again, life isn't all flower and sunshine.
would like to see a character who fools the audience as well!
That would be fantastic. I've only seen one character who managed to do that - Aaron from the 8th PokÈmon movie...only he was protrayed as being a coward and a of an antagonist for trapping his apprentice in the jewel of the staff he always carried around, when, in the end, it turns out that Aaron fled the castle to go to the Tree of the World's Beginning in order to stop the massive war going on, and if he hadn't captured his apprentice in the staff he would have followed Aaron anywhere, and Aaron couldn't allow that because in order to stop the war he would have to sacrifice himself. As Aaron said: "If a life must be traded for a pointless war...myself and only me...should be plenty. But I don't have any regrets. In the castle, with Leen-sama and you...I had a beautiful life. That itself is what living means."
It is difficult however to find good motives for an LBT villain, that is motives which lay outside the usual "circle of life" business
Yeah, that's a big problem. But at least the dinosaurs don't want to take over the world.
I'm talking of a villain who seems to be nice and a friend but pursuits his or her viscious purposes all the time thereby making use of the trust others put into him or her
That would be interesting. Out of everything, I would like to hear more about all the different legends and myths the dinosaurs have (ex., the Lone Dinosaur, a Stone of Cold Fire). Maybe a couple saurians could misinterprete one of them and start causing a heck of a lot of problems? But then again that is a bit like Pterano, in a non-direct sense...
However, Pterano fooled Petrie and a few of his sibilings and nobody else
There was that herd of dinosaurs in Grandpa's flashback that believed him about...well, whatever he was talking about, too. I have seen the Stone of Cold Fire movie in a long while, so I forget that part.
It is not really an evil act if a sharptooth hunts and kills to survive
I agree. But Sharpteeth are always a threat, nontheless.
Racism is a possible motive for a leafeater villain. This however excludes many dinosaurs from being impressed by this villain, unless this villain is extremely capable of hiding his reservations and hatred of other kinds (Racism is a latent motive of Pterano too).
Ooo, that's a good one. But yeah, that's a good point, too...
for the moment I'll leave it at that and wait for more responses to this really interesting thread you opened Ratiasu
Thanks Malte.
