Month: February 2014

Man, that's just a gorgeous cover. You might want to skip the plot description, though. It fails to enhance the majesty of the art. I have to get this one in first, though: "Those dammed Beaver Men!" See what I did there?  

Our first inclination is to be a smart ass and note that this is a 'harmless' herbivore. On the other hand, hippos kill more people than any other animal in Africa. On the third hand, you'd think they'd leave you alone if you left them alone, so again, it's pretty much on Turok here.

Might as well keep running with Turok. Can't go wrong there. (I like Kona a bit better, but, you know, giant bugs and megalodons. Still, this ain't chopped liver.) This, by the way, represents a lazy Sunday for Turok.

Surprisingly few Mammoth covers. I guess artists just like painting T-Rexes more. Or else they recognized that Mammoths are harder to make look menacing. I mean, clearly they would be. However, Sesame Street itself figured out that 'wooly mammoth' basically translated to 'fuzzy elephant' and built what became perhaps the most beloved second wave…

Harder to find stills for a T-Rex vs. Mammoth skeleton fight than you would think. However, I thought folks would like this shot of stop motion animation expert Dave Allen working on the sequence.

This is probably my last mammoth, because there's really a sad dearth of things like this in movies. I know the (then) Sci-Fi Channel did a Mammoth movie once. Stills are surprisingly hard to find, and--surprise--look like crap anyway. I'd love to see a short on the guys who dressed up the elephants for…

Here are some still from 1952's (justifiably) obscure The Jungle, starring Rod Cameron, Marie Windsor and Cesar Romero. Despite the recognizable cast, this is a real snoozefest, the sort of deal where you mark time until the last five minutes so you can finally get a brief glimpse of the above beasties. The film…

Have you ever tried to put a hat on a dog? Imagine this.