Dinosaur Comics

If you're not reading Ryan North's Dinosaur Comics at qwantz.com ...well, what the hell is wrong with you?

(Sorry these images are so small. Right-click and open in a new tab or window to view them full-sized.)

It's a brilliant concept: working with the same six panel images, create an ongoing comic strip involving a group of talking dinosaurs who are more-or-less friends. With special off-screen appearances by God, the Devil, and other guest stars! How long can you keep such a thing up? Ryan North has been doing it since February 1, 2003!

This isn't a comic strip for kids, which might be the target audience you would expect for a strip involving talking dinosaurs. It's clever, witty, and sophisticated, and packed full of references to pop culture. Check out this example from the "Mirror Universe" story arc:

Ryan North includes hover text unique to each strip, a related joke that appears if you use the site to compose an e-mail response to a specific strip, and even embed code for each day's strip (which is how I got these strips to come over!) (which produced images too wide to display on the blog, so you'll have to click through the images to see the full-sized originals, though I was able to reproduce the hover text through a meticulous process of trial and error!)

Go on over to qwantz.com and check out the entire collection of archived strips! You'll be glad you did!