Age of Reptiles: Tribal Warfare (Age of Reptiles #1)

Valéria.

Rating: really liked it
I liked Cretaceous more, but this was great too! I really love how no words are needed and story can be pretty good told. Dinosaurs and sharks always get 5 stars on my read list, no matter what. And this is no exception.

Michael

Rating: really liked it
I think that I was mostly surprised by how much this book was NOT what I expected. I was expecting something closer to Steven Bissette's Tyrant, but Age of Reptiles is an animal of a completely different color. Literally.

Delgado's story is essentially a parable of a turfwar between two rival dinosaur clans. A band of deinonychi and a small group of tyrannosaurs clash over hunting grounds, which leads to attacks on the other's eggs, elaborate traps, and lots of posturing and rutting. As you might expect of a story with not only dinosaurs, but gang overtones, the violence is pronounced, although not terribly gratuitous. I found it interesting that each type of dinosaur that we were introduced to had a particular hue and pattern, which I interpret to be each gang's "colors."

It's an interesting tale. The dinosaurs are all drawn very life-like, as Delgado's art is just awesome - detailed, emotive, and generally clear, concise storytelling. Delgado also shows off many different species of reptile, including my childhood favorite, the triceratops (how many animals have built-in weaponry like that anymore?).

In the end, the turf war leaves only one survivor, and the reptiles find out that subtlety, smarts and stealth will find a way to survive when they are long gone.

Centauri

Rating: really liked it
SPOILER ALERT
This is proof that words are not required to tell a good or great story.
All images, and the story is straightforward and easily understood. Like the Introductions say, it is like reviewing storyboards for an upcoming cinematic adventure.
Dinosaurs care for their young. Dinos can be vengeful, meticulous, and cunning. Dinosaurs are very facially, expressive. It's all in this tale.

Bryan Wyatt

Rating: really liked it
This was soooooo cool for me as a kid. Jurassic Park had only been out for about 3 years when this came out and I was at the age where I both loved dinosaurs and had the patience to read comics with no dialogue.

Leahlady

Rating: really liked it
12 yr old son loved this! Drawn comic book style, no words

Antonio Meridda

Rating: really liked it
Disegni molto belli, storia senza parole dove si descrive la vita intensa e violenta di diversi dinosauri.

Steve

Rating: really liked it
Even in the distant wordless past of dinosaurs, violence only begets violence.

Devero

Rating: really liked it
Raccoglie la prima miniserie che Delgado ambienta nelle epoche dominate dai dinosauri. Rispetto a storie che verranno dopo questa lotta tra una gruppo di T.rex e un branco di Deinonichus è caratterizzata da una voglia di mettere in vista più dinosauri possibile di diverse specie. Inoltre i colori non sono proprio al meglio, e infatti nell'omnibus che ristampa la storia sono stati rivisti.
Lettura muta, violenta ma interessante, da cui Leo trasse una delle sue mitiche vignette per la Panini. intervistatore: perché una storia muta sui dinosauri?
Trex e Deinonichus a fianco a lui, leccandosi i baffi: non si parla con la bocca piena...

amy boese

Rating: really liked it
When I first read this, I was a little non-plussed; lots of dinosaurs, lots of blood. My kids (8, 5 and 3) were just stuck in it...they wouldn't put it down! So I decided I had better do a more thorough read-through. As I started to talk about the pictures with the kids, I got more and more out of the story. It is a masterful story without words, especially using realistic looking reptiles as leading characters. Although it remains a very violent and bloody story, by the time I got to the end, the kids and I had a good discussion about life, and dinosaurs, and families, and I appreciated it on a new level.

Kathleen

Rating: really liked it
Though the reptilian faces lack the expression of anthropomorphized characters, these dinosaurs manage to be both realistic and cartoony at the same time! This volume details a long strife between a pack of velociraptors and a family of T-rexes. (Spoilers: Neither side wins! The real winners are the other animals, since the predators are killing each other.) I was impressed by the number of symbiotic relationships shown - a bait fish, a cleaner bird - small animals not just living in fear of the big ones, but living in cooperation with them.

Jeff Powers

Rating: really liked it
Richard Delgado's beautifully detailed 'silent' comic about the lives of ancient reptiles is an amazing work of paleofiction. It is gorgeous to look at and has an amazingly complex tale to tell without a single word of dialogue or narration. It puts itself up there with the greats of scaley comics, but perhaps surpasses many of them with its artistic merit. Sadly, without words, it is a rather quick read. Though that will leave you begging for the next volume.

Megan

Rating: really liked it
The art in this second Age of Reptiles volume is still amazing, even if this one - also a 'silent' visual story - is harder to follow than the first one. Also... there's something a little hard to swallow as far as the basic premise of the plot goes, but if you're willing to totally overlook that, it's a good read; especially if you enjoyed the first book at all.

David

Rating: really liked it
A fairly fun, quick read that used no speech. It was about groups of raptors and T-Rexes competing long ago. It was a pretty neat story, and did well with telling a story without words, but I didn't really get much out of it.

The coolest thing about it was the fact that it did effectively tell a somewhat complex story without a word of narration or dialogue.

Harley

Rating: really liked it
Man. Great story using no words. The pain and suffering of such a kill or be killed lifestyle... crazy! Too bad the raptors kept getting their butts kicked! This novel has love, pain, jealously, power struggles, happiness, curiosity, and irony. too good!

Brent

Rating: really liked it
Wish I still had these comics issues from publisher Dark Horse... so, I'll have to replace my copy!
Delgado's dinosaur fictions are amazing.
You must read this.
Highest recommendation.