Kalel21
03/03/2005, 16:38
Of these three dinosaur-related comic book plots, two of them are real and one is just made up. Which is the fake?
1. Turok and Andar are still searching for a way out of the lost valley when they are attacked by a T-Rex in a heavily wooded area. Because of the trees, they have trouble getting a clear shot with their poison-tipped arrows. Turok is nearly chomped before Andar finally sinks an arrow into the carnosaur’s neck. The next day, Turok insists he and Andar practice their archery skills and they spend many hours perfected their aim and making trick shots.
Later, they find a white chalk line running across the open ground. When Turok bends down to touch it, boomerang wielding natives leap from their hiding places and capture him. To punish him for violating the “magic” that brings game to their land, the natives tie him up as a sacrifice to the next big carnosaur that comes along.
Andar escapes and his archery skills come into play. He kills a carnosaur about to eat Turok with a long shot. He splits the ropes binding Turok, then shoots an arrow between the legs of an approaching native to trip him and give Turok time to escape. Turok returns the favor by knocking a razor sharp boomerang out of the air just before it brains Andar.
The two friends escape and Turok awakes the next morning to find Andar faithfully practicing with his bow and arrow.
2. During World War II, a plane load of American paratroopers fly into an area where an earlier plane had vanished mysteriously. The plane is attacked by a pteradatcyl and torn out of the air. Only a small number of paratroopers manage to bail out and they end up floating on a wing of the plane, armed with small arms and a bag of bazooka rockets.
They spot another trooper in the water, holding bazooka over his head. Badly wounded, he manages to hand off the bazooka to the others before going under. With this weapon, the soldiers manage to fight off several dinosaurs and even save a damage, low-flying fighter plane from an attacking sea serpent. But their bazooka ammo runs out.
They don’t know if the plane saw them and so don’t know if help is coming. The next day, they find a small (VERY small—a few yards across) island and go ashore. Soon, they are attacked by a large sea serpent that begins eating chunks out of the island. In the nick of time, the plane they rescued yesterday drops a bomb on the monster. Soon after, a submarine arrives to rescue the surviving soldiers.
3. A half-dozen large interstellar merchants from an alien planet are damaged in a magnetic storm. Superman arrives and, linking them together with an enormous chain, begins to tow them home. But an engineer aboard one of the ships makes an ill-advices attempt at emergency repairs. An out-of-control hyperdrive tosses Superman through a black hole. He ends up on the surface of a planet with a red sun.
Powerless, Superman discovers the primitive world is still in its dinosaur age. For several weeks, he manages to fend off meat-eaters and gather enough fruit and other eatables to survive. Eventually, he encounters a tribe of intelligent, magic-using velociraptor-like creatures.
At first, they attack Superman and he has to run for it. But then he rescues a young raptor from a T-Rex and earns the tribe’s friendship. After learning enough of the language to communicate, Superman tells them his troubles. The tribe’s witch doctor uses a magic spell to teleport Superman into deep space, where he regains his powers. Finishing his rescue of the stranded space ships, he then heads for home.
1. Turok and Andar are still searching for a way out of the lost valley when they are attacked by a T-Rex in a heavily wooded area. Because of the trees, they have trouble getting a clear shot with their poison-tipped arrows. Turok is nearly chomped before Andar finally sinks an arrow into the carnosaur’s neck. The next day, Turok insists he and Andar practice their archery skills and they spend many hours perfected their aim and making trick shots.
Later, they find a white chalk line running across the open ground. When Turok bends down to touch it, boomerang wielding natives leap from their hiding places and capture him. To punish him for violating the “magic” that brings game to their land, the natives tie him up as a sacrifice to the next big carnosaur that comes along.
Andar escapes and his archery skills come into play. He kills a carnosaur about to eat Turok with a long shot. He splits the ropes binding Turok, then shoots an arrow between the legs of an approaching native to trip him and give Turok time to escape. Turok returns the favor by knocking a razor sharp boomerang out of the air just before it brains Andar.
The two friends escape and Turok awakes the next morning to find Andar faithfully practicing with his bow and arrow.
2. During World War II, a plane load of American paratroopers fly into an area where an earlier plane had vanished mysteriously. The plane is attacked by a pteradatcyl and torn out of the air. Only a small number of paratroopers manage to bail out and they end up floating on a wing of the plane, armed with small arms and a bag of bazooka rockets.
They spot another trooper in the water, holding bazooka over his head. Badly wounded, he manages to hand off the bazooka to the others before going under. With this weapon, the soldiers manage to fight off several dinosaurs and even save a damage, low-flying fighter plane from an attacking sea serpent. But their bazooka ammo runs out.
They don’t know if the plane saw them and so don’t know if help is coming. The next day, they find a small (VERY small—a few yards across) island and go ashore. Soon, they are attacked by a large sea serpent that begins eating chunks out of the island. In the nick of time, the plane they rescued yesterday drops a bomb on the monster. Soon after, a submarine arrives to rescue the surviving soldiers.
3. A half-dozen large interstellar merchants from an alien planet are damaged in a magnetic storm. Superman arrives and, linking them together with an enormous chain, begins to tow them home. But an engineer aboard one of the ships makes an ill-advices attempt at emergency repairs. An out-of-control hyperdrive tosses Superman through a black hole. He ends up on the surface of a planet with a red sun.
Powerless, Superman discovers the primitive world is still in its dinosaur age. For several weeks, he manages to fend off meat-eaters and gather enough fruit and other eatables to survive. Eventually, he encounters a tribe of intelligent, magic-using velociraptor-like creatures.
At first, they attack Superman and he has to run for it. But then he rescues a young raptor from a T-Rex and earns the tribe’s friendship. After learning enough of the language to communicate, Superman tells them his troubles. The tribe’s witch doctor uses a magic spell to teleport Superman into deep space, where he regains his powers. Finishing his rescue of the stranded space ships, he then heads for home.