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While Ricardo Delgado's artwork might seem appealing for its rather good
layout, composition and comic strip technique (reminiscent to W. Stout's earlier
works), it couldn't stand a more serious critic from any person who knows a bit
more about dinosaurs, for it is full of wrong interpretations: mixing anatomy of
various dinosaur species, putting muscles in unusual places and in unusual
quantities, mixing species that didn't live at the same time and place, not to
mention grass growing everywhere, and all those pupilless eyes - which should
have given the beasts a mean look (?) but came up just blind-looking, etc. In
one word - I wouldn't recommend it at all as a reliable source of information on
life and appearance of dinosaurs.
Since Delgado has been
professionally involved in paleoart (comic books) for some time (I think I first
saw his work in 1993) one would have expected he had improved his knowledge on
the subject and started following the recent scientific discoveries and data
necessary for the job. Obviously, he hasn't.
On the other hand: "de gustibus non est disputandum". Comic book
fans who enjoy just the nice drawings and don't care for scientific background
will like his stuff.
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