Comments on: Retail Therapy

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:24 +0000

They should start a mini Jurassic Park and charge people 20 bucks a pop to get in!
Of course, if tiny dinosaurs can be purchased at any department store it kind of loses the wow factor. Never mind.

By: Case

Case — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:48:45 +0000

He’s obviously sad because all he really wanted was a miniature Apatosaurus, but she never brings him one.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:20:26 +0000

He doesn’t look as sad to me as nervous. Look at the last panel, there’s a tiny stegosaurus near his foot, he only has socks on an probably steps on the tiny underfoot annoying dinosaurs that are following him around. He probably would have appreciated it more if she hadn’t gotten him THE MOST POINTY DINOSAUR YET! Now the allosaurus might nip a bit and the brontosauruses seems mostly benign to the feet, but she should have gotten him another ankylosaurus. I bet they feel good underfoot and then he’d have a matching set of dinosaur foot massagers.

By: jrad

jrad — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:15:38 +0000

this is one of my favorites so far.

for those of you who don’t get it, here are my thoughts on it:
she’s trying to cheer him up and there’s an emphasis on tiny. why? it’s just that it seems impossibly small for extremely large critters. it’s just like how the ipod nano is the best thing in the world because it’s smaller and less capable than other ipods. tiny is the novelty of modern times. then add in that any normal person would be incredibly cheered up by a dinosaur, and a tiny cute dinosaur would be even better. last, we get the reveal: tiny dinosaurs all up in his house/apartment/etc. the fact is he has not been cheered up at all which leads us to believe that 1) a tiny dinosaur can’t cheer him up or 2) the novelty of tiny dinosaurs that might have slightly cheered him up once have lost their appeal. for instance, if i tell everyone i know that i love cinnamon rolls and i could eat them every day for the rest of my life and then everyone starts sending me cinnamon rolls, i’m gonna get pretty sick of them soon.

here, it’s not particularly important if she personally gave him all the dinosaurs because either way is more or less the same - it didn’t work before and it ain’t working now. however, if she personally did it all, you have the added possibility that the tiny dinosaurs are just her thing and mean even less to him.

in any case, i loved it. i want a tiny dinosaur. great reveal.

By: Pfeniks

Pfeniks — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:26:52 +0000

Also, has anyone ever seen the show “Firefly”?

Wash plays with plastic dinos while he’s waiting to pilot the spaceship. “We will call it….This Land.” “I think we should call it your grave!” “Ack! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!” “Grr!’ (That’s a T-Rex and a plant-eater, his toys, talking. He always has his toys on the “dash” when he’s flying, in every episode.)

By: Pfeniks

Pfeniks — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:24:22 +0000

I want a tiny live triceratops! Whee!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:39:09 +0000

I don’t get it. =/

Oh, but you’re right, Tofudisan; they *MIGHT* be giants.

By: DM

DM — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:16:03 +0000

Wouldn’t the tiny dinosaurs be fighting each other? Surely some of them would want to rip the others to shreds! And then there would be a tiny war! Oh no!

By: Miles

Miles — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:07:28 +0000

It’s about how things are perverted from their original existance to use them commercially.

Dinosaurs, what was awesome about them? their strength, size, etc. these small dinosaurs have none of that which was essential to our idealized image of dinosaurs. The guy’s not happy because they don’t really have the aspects he admires in dinosaurs, because they’re small and cute or whatever.

it’s basically just about comercialism.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:00:49 +0000

This reminds me of the episode of Infinite Solutions (www.marksinfinitesolutions.com) with the tiny dinosaurs.