Background:
The Late Jurassic is a really bad time to be a small dinosaur. Unfortunately it's a job someone has to fill.
That job went to Zena the
Compsognathus longipes. She drew the short straw in size, and on top of being on the lowest point of the food chain, she's alone; one of the few members of her species who travels alone (they're usually social creatures). She hates it and looks for companionship whenever it presents itself.
"Companionship" came in the form of Navado, an 80-foot long
Diplodocus longus who travels in an expansive herd (even with creatures like
Stegosaurs and
Camptosaurs tagging along). Now, when you're eighty feet long, you never get messed with. Never.
Someone should've told poor Earl the
Allosaur that.
So, before I tell you too much (which I already have), I'm gonna let you read for yourself as the story develops. Now go back and enter the brave new world of...
...The Jurassic Period.
Comics:
1-3. Zena tries to catch her next meal, but irony has a funny way of popping up when you least expect it.
The Jurassic Perioid-1
The Jurassic Period-2
The Jurassic Period-3
4-5. The standoff between the apex predator and the apex...salad eater ensues. Who will win? Can't you just smell the suspense? (Hm. Smells like boiled broccoli.)
The Jurassic Period-4
The Jurassic Period-5
6-coming soon. Zena meets the face of her knight in bumpy, scaly and orange armor. But is Navado willing to play nice with the little damsel?
The Jurassic Period-6
Some images of the cast:
Zena in color: (drawn/inked by me, colored by Paleoartist Natalie Grewe, a friend of mine)
(attachment #1)
Navado, Zena and Chet (a
Stegosaurus stenops, Navvies old buddy from his childhood) wondering at astronamy. (Lion King joke)
(#2)
The first (seriously, the very first) image I drew of them two dinos together.
Look at Navado sneer... heheh.
(#3)