#Ande Parks

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Batgirl by Ande Parks

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Green Arrow #5 (2023)

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Shade The Changing Girl #5

De vuelta a casa

Young Animal

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Extraction 2 (15): It's like the first one but even more Extractionny.

#onemannsmovies review of "Extraction 2" (2023). #Extraction 2. Action sequel that was a bit too overblown for me. Prefer the original. 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Extraction 2” (2023). I only just watched the first “Extraction” on Netflix, so watching “Extraction 2” has given me a chance to properly compare the two. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: After his near-death experience in Dhaka, Tyler Rake has a slow and painful path to recovery. But once there and in ‘retirement’ in the wilds of Austria, he is tempted…

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My pride and joy! (sorry kiddo lol)

@tragiclyhip​ got me this! An illustration done by Ande Parks who illustrated the graphic novel Ciudad, which Extraction was based off of. 

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The Crow Waking Nightmares #1 (January 1997) by Kitchen Sink

Written by Christopher Golden, drawn by Phil Hester, cover by Miran Kim. 

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Catwoman #10 ‘Falling Star’ (1994) by Jo Duffy, Jim Balent, Ande Parks and Buzz Setzer. Edited by Denny O'Neil. Cover by Balent.

Catwoman #10 (May 1994) cover by Jim Balent.

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EXTRACTION 2:

Tyler Rake returns

Breaks family from prison

Shields them for mob boss

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if i cant find a high res version of ga 2023 #8's cover soon im going to blow up look at how cool this shit is

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Chile 🇨🇱❤️

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Green Arrow #45 (2005)

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Back in the original novel, there's an argument between Hammond and Wu about slowing down dinosaurs—not for safety*, but because in 1990 most people imagined dinosaurs as lumbering oversized lizards. Wu suggested making their dinosaurs more like what people expected, but Hammond wanted to make them "real"—despite Wu raging internally that they cannot make real Mesozoic animals.

I wish one of the sequels or adaptations or something validated that with a scene where some theropod turned out feathery, which was attributed to the bird DNA InGen added, so they threw in crocodile or lizard or frog DNA until it looked right.

It would completely validate Wu's concerns about not being able to make real dinosaurs, and expose Hammond's ideals of resurrecting extinct creatures for the fantasy it is, and turn this carte-blanche justification for scientific errors to match the popular understanding of dinosaurs from debatable subtext to clear text.

*Since this is after the first raptor incident, it's probably on Wu's mind, but I don't think he cites it as an argument.

My favorite detail about Jurassic Park is that it has a baked-in justification for any and all retcons it might need to make due to paleontology advancing forwards.

Because there is not a single dinosaur that has ever appeared in Jurassic Park.

Not one. Not in the books. Not in the movies. Not ever.

"Now what John Hammond and InGen did at Jurassic Park was to create genetically engineered theme park monsters." ~Alan Grant

Grant says that in a moment of cynicism. It's part of his arc for the film. But it's not inaccurate. What Jurassic Park has, what it's always had since the very first novel, are "Mostly Dinosaurs".

"And since the DNA is so old, it's full of holes! Now, that's where our geneticists take over!" ~Mr. DNA

It's impossible to recover a fully intact gene sequence from an ancient amber mosquito. Cloning a pure dinosaur would have been completely impossible, and so the park filled in the gene sequence with whatever works. Frog. Lizard. Bird. Whatever they need to get the result they are trying to get.

Every single dinosaur is a chimeric beast made up of mostly dinosaur and a bunch of other stuff that some scientists thought would achieve the appropriate dinosaur-like result.

"Nothing in Jurassic World is natural! We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different." ~Dr. Henry Wu

Which, from a writing perspective, is fucking genius. Because now you have a preset excuse for each and every plot hole your movie has.

Like. Why don't the raptors have feathers? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why do dilophosaurs spit venom? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why do T-Rexes have movement based vision? Oh, they don't. But Rexy does. Because of her chimera DNA.

Why is the Spinosaurus so fucking big? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why are the velociraptors mislabeled? Because Hammond's a dipshit.

Like. I've always marveled at the way Jurassic Park started out by giving itself a blanket excuse to be wrong about every single thing it ever said about the central attraction of its franchise. It's honestly beautiful, and allows the series a degree of immortality well into the era where we know better about its animals.

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Extraction (15): An energetic workout for the camera-person!

#onemannsmovies review of "Extraction" (2020). #ExtractionMovie. #Netflix action movie that's a cut above the norm. 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Extraction” (2020). Ahead of watching the sequel, “Extraction 2”, I watched the original Chris Hemsworth film on Netflix that I missed when it first came out. It seemed a tad of a spoiler that there is a sequel… with Chris Hemsworth… but, hey, perhaps it is a prequel huh? Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: Ovi Mahajan (Rudhraksh Jaiswal), the son of India’s…

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Green Arrow #1-2 (2001) by DC Comics

Written by Kevin Smith, drawn by Phil Hester and Ande Parks, covers by Matt Wagner.

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15 Stunning Landscapes In Patagonia Argentina That Defy Expectations

Do you know that the fictional Paradise Falls from the popular Disney movie Up is inspired by a real landmark in South America called Angel Falls? It is dubbed the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the world and one of South America’s most awe-inspiring waterfalls. National Geographic calls South America the “continent of extremes,” encompassing not only the Atacama Desert and the Amazon but…