Dinosaurs as Superheroes

Posted on 07/13/11 at 4:00 PM in Articles by Josh Flanagan 28 Comments

Every once in a while, we get a new greatest thing, and today, dinosaurs as superheroes is that greatest thing.

These were done by a user named d.r3sto on Flickr, and he's selling prints.
 

Captain Ameritops

 

Ankylothorus

 

Pteranostorm

 

Iron Brontosaurus

 

Wolveraptor

 

Thanks to Paul W. for the tip.

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  1. mrfrost mrfrost says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    Ankylothorus? I want that dinosaur to have his own book.

  2. Bytor88 Bytor88 says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    Yeah, let’s see a Dino Marvels mini!

  3. WheelHands WheelHands says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    These are incredibly clever. They all fit nicely. Wolveraptor gets my vote only because it was my favorite dinosaur as a kid, and here it’s mixed with my favorite X-Man.

  4. siraim siraim says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    Ok.. i’ll buy StarkTech being able to get a man sized iron suit airborne and highly mobile, but a brontosaurus suit? No way that works!

  5. Mike Romo mikeromo (@rikemomo) says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    I kind of love this.

  6. Josh Flanagan josh (@jaflanagan) says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    @mikeromo  Right?!

  7. xebix xebix says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    Ankylothorus. AKA Sauron. Love Wolveraptor.

  8. Paul Montgomery PaulMontgomery (@fuzzytypewriter) says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    Pteranostorm needs to be stricken from the list as the pterosaurs she is based on are not technically dinosaurs. 

    #funkiller  

  9. ericmci ericmci says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:41 pm

    I was predisposed to poop on this based on the first notion the title created.

    But it is kind of great.

    Reminds me of http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/11/17/superhero-volkswagen-van-bus/

     

  10. siraim siraim says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    @ericmci  The vantastic four? that’s awesome. :)

  11. JDC RapidEyeMovement says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    Before the Golden Age there was… The Stone Age!

  12. convoy83 convoy83 says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    @mrfrost  do you think he flies backwards?

  13. RoiVampire RoiVampire says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    that Iron Brontosaurus is the scariest thing i can imagine

  14. wallythegreenmonster wallythegreenmonster says:
    July 13, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    thats really fun stuff. 

  15. markish markish says:
    July 13, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    I think my favourite thing about this is that everyone has really punny names except Iron Brontosaurus. Taht amused me too much..

  16. jackarandos says:
    July 13, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    I. Love. This. And I usually dont like dinosaur cartoons and find them very childish but these…..YES!

  17. JNewcomb JNewcomb says:
    July 13, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    Repost?

  18. boomergirl boomergirl says:
    July 13, 2011 at 9:45 pm

    If These were action figures when I was a kid, my dioramas of jurrasic period would have been awesome! Although now I have this image of @PaulMontgomery taking the Ptaranstorm out before moving on to the next kid and removing pluto from his solar system.

  19. ABirdseysView ABirdseysView says:
    July 13, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    @JNewcomb  - agreed, I definitely remember seeing this on this site sometime in the recent past.

  20. JohnVFerrigno JohnVFerrigno says:
    July 13, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    This makes me miss the old Spider-Ham comics. Ducktor Doom. Captain Americat. The Beeyonder. And of course, Croak and Badger!

  21. Jagstang Jagstang says:
    July 14, 2011 at 12:32 am

    Noooo… There is no Brontosaurus. It’s the Apatosaurus.

  22. ed209AF ed209AF says:
    July 14, 2011 at 1:32 am

    So it was Galactus who killed the dinosaurs?

  23. vadamowens vadamowens says:
    July 14, 2011 at 8:56 am

    I’m getting some serious deja vu here.

  24. edward edward says:
    July 14, 2011 at 9:38 am

    No offense to anyone invloved but they’re honestly some of the ugliest prints i have seen

  25. Jim Mroczkowski Jimski (@jimski) says:
    July 14, 2011 at 10:12 am

    Thanks for your call.

  26. edward edward says:
    July 14, 2011 at 10:34 pm

    and Jimski? did i say that the idea is pretty stupid too? it is

  27. Andrew Andrew says:
    July 15, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    HAHA! Iron Brontosarus! So much silliness.

  28. IpseVerus IpseVerus says:
    July 20, 2011 at 10:51 pm

    The only problem I see from this is the continued perpetuation of the Brontosaurus. It doesn’t exist people. It’s an Apatosaurus.

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