Hey guys

[monotonic]

I guess this page might be useful to answer your question?

Have fun getting through the rest of the dinoarchives, laser dog bad.

[momomoto]

Maybe this time I'll stay an active forum member?

...Probably not.

[centaursTesticle]

When did this forum get here and why wasn't I ever informed?
Really, something like this should at the very least have news coverage in the US. We need to get those reporters on their A-game.

[Fakeimposter]

Hey if Ryan is here, I got another question to ask; Why dinosaurs?

[SleepingOrange]

Dinosaur Comics would be very confusing and unsatisfying without, you know, dinosaurs in it.

Come on, Fake.

[Fakeimposter]

I'm just saying Ryan could have cashed in on some popular tween trends if he made it star sexy vampires.

[Schazer]

Dumb hypothetical question:

If the dinosaurs at large hadn't been driven extinct by a honking great meteor and some of the brighter theropods achieved sentience
a) how friggin' cool would that be, and
b) would we be in space yet?

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Bonus c) for staying on topic is: Would we have come up with dinosaur-people-vampires?

[Isoraqathedh]

Dumb hypothetical question:

If the dinosaurs at large hadn't been driven extinct by a honking great meteor and some of the brighter theropods achieved sentience
a) how friggin' cool would that be, and
b) would we be in space yet?

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Bonus c) for staying on topic is: Would we have come up with dinosaur-people-vampires?

You're positing an alternate history. My guess is:

Even if the K-T did not happen, the world is changing already. The thing that will certainly drive them to look completely different is the inevitable global cooling. You see, when Gondwana separated, a ring of cold water can surround Antarctica, cooling it (and the planet) immensely. This cold snap will drastically downsize the surviving dinosaurs; perhaps from horse-sized to elephant-sized. Granted, they'd still be big.

And as for us, well, that's bad, because dinosaurs keep mammal size down and therefore we can't evolve except in places where the cold snap killed off everyone living there, i.e. Antarctica. We wouldn't exist.

But as for the dinosaurs being there and in space, well, the factors of sapiogenesis and civilogenesis are still very poorly understood, so I'll think about it and get back to you later.

[bluemage]

Hey Ryan,
Will you ever do a Dinosaur forum adventure?

[Randy Johnson]

Ryan aren't you angry at Dr. Hastings for totally invading your territory?

[waterbottles]

Hello Ryan,

Would you consider creating an advice thread where forumers like myself may ask you for advice in your various fields of expertise?

Thank you,
waterbottles

[SleepingOrange]

Dear Mr. North:

I did my first swarm extraction this morning and am posting that information here by pretending it is relevant to the bee language discussion rather than because the real general chat is inanity. How does this make you feel? Would it affect your feelings in any way if I told you that I didn't have a spare hive and the colony is bunking in a cheap particleboard chest of drawers until I can get a new one?

Sincerely,
-S. Orange

[Zaximum]

Ryan, who would win in a fight between you and Hastings? I've never seen either of you, and I imagine you both look exactly the same, and I think he would win. Sorry.

[MysteryJack]

Hey, Dinosaur Comics.

I remember going like "Oh man, I'm going to read ALL of these" some time last year.

I never actually did it, because god there are so many.

[Ryan North]

Ryan, who would win in a fight between you and Hastings? I've never seen either of you, and I imagine you both look exactly the same, and I think he would win. Sorry.

Our fights always end in manly handshakes, so we're ALL winners!

[Fakeimposter]

Everyone but the audience. :|

[Fusha]

I've e-mailed Ryan once. And then he responded.
And then I came so hard I didn't get to respond back to his response ever since :[

[Zaximum]

Ryan, who do T-Wrecks, Dromi, Utahrapper, The Devil, and God play in Super Smash Bros Melee?

[Ryan North]

Devil plays as Kirby as he is, quote, "A VERY EFFECTIVE CHARACTER DESPITE ACCUSATIONS OF BEING CHEAP BY THOSE WHO ARE UNABLE TO DEFEND AGAINST HIS AIRBORNE ONSLAUGHT"

[Red Herring]

hi i like dinosaur comics...

[Reptile Dysfunction]

Hi everyone, I've just joined this forum because Ryan's limited form of consensual mind control has extended to include my online discussion habits.

I like how before you log in it says at the top "You may have to register before you can post" as if to suggest that if you're lucky, you won't have to...

[42th]

Ahhhh... Finally! I can post!

I've been reading Dinosaur Comics for a long while, MSPA since last fall, and lurking around these forums since a little after that, but it was the inclusion of Ryan's incredibly sexy Dinosaur Comics that was the deciding factor in getting me to register.

I just also wanted to say I approve of the totally awesome forum alliance of Dinosaur Comics and MSPA, and that I hope it expands.

So, uh... Hi, everyone!

[Dr.JackstrawTheAbnormal]

Hello friends and neighbors. It's great to be here. I dig Dinosaur comics so much.

[fiery_explosion]

I have a question that has been bugging me for some time. Who made the original art for the strip?

[bebarce]

Hey Ryan, I found your book at my local library (Clifton, NJ). Apparently whoever is in charge of ordering their books is pretty awesome.