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Sneak Peek: Grant Morrison – Dinosaurs Vs Aliens For Free Comic Book Day

Sneak Peek: Grant Morrison – Dinosaurs Vs Aliens For Free Comic Book Day

Dynamite's Free Comic Book Day offering this year is Dinosaurs Vs Aliens, a preview of the upcoming graphic novel by Barry Sonnenfeld, Grant Morison and Mukesh Singh. Not only do we see art and sketches, but we also get script and background behind the series creation. Which tells so much more about what we'll be able to expect from the comic.

Sneak Peek: Grant Morrison – Dinosaurs Vs Aliens For Free Comic Book Day

The script makes clear what these images suggest. These are dinosaurs with intelligence, craft and more importantly, culture. In an address to the reader Barry Sonnenfeld explains that with Dinosaurs Vs Aliens, he is retelling the story of the colonisation of the United States, represented by Earth, with the dinosaurs as Native Americans and the aliens being the invading Europeans. Grant Morrison writes;

 

Sneak Peek: Grant Morrison – Dinosaurs Vs Aliens For Free Comic Book Day

We also get a description, and a naming, of some of the central cast.

 

Sneak Peek: Grant Morrison – Dinosaurs Vs Aliens For Free Comic Book Day

And, to recall that this isn't just about the dinosaurs, we also get a look at the aliens…

Sneak Peek: Grant Morrison – Dinosaurs Vs Aliens For Free Comic Book DaySneak Peek: Grant Morrison – Dinosaurs Vs Aliens For Free Comic Book DaySneak Peek: Grant Morrison – Dinosaurs Vs Aliens For Free Comic Book Day

Dinosaurs Vs Aliens: Free Comic Book Day should be available at all participating comic shops on Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May the 5th.

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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