{"id":415,"date":"2005-07-16T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/07\/16\/devil-dinosaur-4-object-from-the-sky\/"},"modified":"2005-07-16T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-16T13:04:00","slug":"devil-dinosaur-4-object-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/415","title":{"rendered":"Devil Dinosaur #4 [1978]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;BONK BONK BONK&#8221;. That&#8217;s the sound of a dinosaur stomping on an alien invader. In case you ever wondered. Gotta love that old Devil Dinosaur stomping action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/07\/Devil-Dinosaur-4-1978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3346\" alt=\"Devil Dinosaur #4 [1978]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/07\/Devil-Dinosaur-4-1978-686x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/07\/Devil-Dinosaur-4-1978-686x1024.jpg 686w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/07\/Devil-Dinosaur-4-1978-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/07\/Devil-Dinosaur-4-1978-624x930.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/07\/Devil-Dinosaur-4-1978.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The adventures of Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy ramp up in this issue with an invasion of the Valley of Flame by mysterious aliens, as foretold in prophecy and in Moon-Boy&#8217;s dreams at the beginning of the issue (including a great two-page splash). The invasion is swift and effective, as Moon-Boy is taken prisoner and Devil is left stunned. Eventually Devil teams up with two other Dawn-Men, Stone-Hand and White-Hairs, and plan a rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby also writes the text page for this issue, &#8220;Dinosaurs as Devils and Moon-Boys as PRIMITIVES&#8221;, about how the tendency of people is to treat the non-human as unintelligent, whereas he thinks &#8220;every living creature is capable of an intelligent and compassionate move&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Royer inks the 17-page story while Joltin&#8217; Joe Sinnott inks the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1978<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;BONK BONK BONK&#8221;. That&#8217;s the sound of a dinosaur stomping on an alien invader. In case you ever wondered. Gotta love that old Devil Dinosaur stomping action. The adventures of Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy ramp up in this issue with an invasion of the Valley of Flame by mysterious aliens, as foretold in prophecy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}