Kid Cretaceous #1 is a comic written by J. Michael Miller with art and letters by Gaspar Sabater and Dee Noonan. A little girl adjusts to life in a new town with the help of her toy dinosaur. This is a comic with supernatural elements that stars a little girl and her dad. The girl in question is Kacey, she misses her mom and is nervous about starting at a new elementary school. She lives with her dad who is optimistic about the whole situation. Throughout this tale Kacey will come across potential friends and acquaintances. The story begins with them driving to Meridian while listening to the radio. The fun trip becomes dangerous when meteors start falling from the sky and with one hitting the car. The action here hits hard but it isn’t bloody or gory. The tone is overall lighthearted with a serious moment here and there. The pacing is nice and steady and there are more emotionally intense moments than physical ones. The dialogue is mostly conversational with some narration of various characters’ thoughts. There are no word-heavy pages. This is an interesting debut comic that focuses on a little girl as she deals with all the changes in her life.
The art here is semi-cartoonish with a realistic aim and decent detailing. The colors here are bright with a wide range like most children’s cartoons. There is an ok amount of scenery here as their initial drive takes them some light woods with stretches of grass and trees. There are two primary locations here, one being Kacey and her dad’s house and the other being the school. While we only see the dining room and Kacey’s bedroom in the house we get a much wider view of the school from the classrooms to the cafeteria to some of the offices. The backgrounds almost always show the surroundings from objects to the sky with a gradient color appearing on rare occasions. The expression level here is high as the looks these characters help move things along. The range is all over the place from happiness and fear to anger and sadness. The faces decent features overall with prominent eyes that do most of the heavy-lifting when it comes to expressions. The action here can be hard-hitting with a high chance of bodily harm. The scenes tend to be on the shorter side.
“Is this worth reading?”
Yes if this is up your alley.
“Would I like this?”
If you like stories with supernatural elements that star a little girl and her dad with a bit of drama and some violent moments then this is for you.
“What would this comic’s film rating be?”
PG. Violence.
“Could I get a quote from the comic?”
“I won’t lose him! I promise.”
Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kidcretaceous/kid-cretaceous/description
***IN-DEPTH COMIC STATS BELOW***
Probably Contains Spoilers
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Actual Pages(not counting covers and credits): 24
Violent Pages: 3, for 13% of the comic
Sexy Pages: 0, for 0% of the comic
**The levels below aren’t necessarily maintained throughout the whole comic, but they were definitely reached**
Violence Level – 3
“Wasn’t no tussling at all.”
“Sometimes you gotta hit somebody.”
“I’m getting charged with how many counts of assault?”
“This was a tournament arc.”
“All my life I had to fight.”
Gore Level – 1
“The only thing leaking out your face is tears.”
“Looks like somebody spilled some ketchup.”
“Might need to soak that up with a bath towel.”
“That isn’t supposed to be outside the body.”
“This is a slaughterhouse.”
Death Level – 1
“And everybody lived happily ever after.”
“We might have gone to a couple funerals.”
“It just LOOKS like a serial killer was here.”
“Yeah this was a tragedy.”
“Think Gettysburg.”
