Dawn of Time: Difference between revisions

'''''[http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com Dawn of Time]''''' is a webcomic by Michael Stearns. 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, there was a young cavewoman named Dawn. Armed only with her determination and only a little common sense, Dawn sets out to make her way in the savage wild. Along the way, she meets and befriends a big, friendly triceratops named Blue, as well as a time traveler named [[wikipedia:Gideon Mantell|Mantell]]. Things kind of snowball from there.

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Dawn

* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Blue

* [[Anachronism Stew]]

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: {{spoiler|A merman who saves Dawn from drowning appears to be attempting to turn her into a mermaid to join his little undersea harem, but she rejects it. A giant nautiloid attacks their ship immediately after.}}

* [[Butt Monkey]]: The lungfish.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]

** {{spoiler|Even Dawn's spiral hairdo, in fact.}}

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]

** Mary Ann Woodhouse.

* [[Chekhov MIA]]: {{spoiler|The old man Dawn befriended as a child.}} Too bad we [[Left Hanging|never really get to see]] what ''that'' was all about due to the [[Series Hiatus]].

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

** Dawn

* [[The Drifter]]: Dawn

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Dawn

* [[Face Palm]]: Dawn can make {{spoiler|even Death}} facepalm.

* [[Feathered Fiend]]

** As pointed out in the blurb, bare feet are hard to draw and the author was getting over his fear of drawing them with [http://dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=8 this strip].

** [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=259 This one too.]

* [[Fur Bikini]]: Dawn

* [[Giant Flyer]]: The azhdarchid pterosaurs in Chapter V.

* [[A Boy and His X|A Girl and Her Triceratops]]

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: There are actually (at least) two of them, [http://dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=284 one for humans and one for other creatures]. Dawn and Blue escape them, and so are apparently still alive.

* [[Historical Domain Character]]

** [[wikipedia:Gideon Mantell|Gideon Mantell]] and [[wikipedia:Richard Owen|Richard Owen]], whose rivalry is kept intact.

** And Gideon's eventual (from his perspective) wife Mary Ann Woodhouse.

* [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]: Owen

* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Dawn, who steals a mirror, a brush, etc. And repeatedly Mantell's hat!

** The [[Butt Monkey|lungfish]] are screwed whenever they think about getting out of the water.

** Dawn vomiting after trying to eat something inedible {{spoiler|(or smoking a pipe)}}.

* [[Seashell Bra]]: Averted! The author couldn't bring himself to draw any because there would be no reason for [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=163 them].

* [[Series Hiatus]]: Since July 2011.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Mantell smokes a pipe at first.

* [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying]]: This is on purpose so "dinosaurs read as clearly as possible." Averted [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=146 here.] Also averted with ground-hunting [[Giant Flyer|azhdarchid pterosaurs]] and a more bird-like view of the hypothetical "dinosauroids".

* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: Played straight and averted. Fan-favorites like ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]'' and ''Triceratops'' make appearances, but so do less well known species like ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' and ''Sauropelta''.

* [[Storming the Castle]]: The dinosauroids enlist the help of pterosaurs and use Blue as a wrecking ball to do this in order to save Dawn. {{spoiler|After the dinosauroid chief is killed, Dawn leads the surviving dinosauroids on a second charge.}}

* [[Underwater Kiss]]: Of the Type B [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=156 variation].

* [[Wanted Poster]]: Dawn for [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=91 "attempted 'cattle' rustling and destruction of property."]

 

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[[Category:Dinosaur Media]]

[[Category:Sci Fi Webcomics]]