An Illustrated History

Part 2 - Everyone's Gotta Have an Arch-Nemesis

It didn't take too long for me to figure out that my new pogo stick-riding dinosaur wasn't going to suddenly pop off the page and run around with me. Though slightly disappointed, I decided to do the next best thing. I'd live vicariously through my character and give him friends to go on adventures with. And so I named my new friend Pike (because that was so cool and original and nobody would ever think of naming someone that…..) and began discovering who his friends were.

Here is one of the very compelling meetings between Pike and one of his first new friends Thorn:

But if there is one thing I learned from Saturday morning cartoons, it was that every hero and his friends need an enemy, some big bully who wants nothing more than to ruin the fun of my new pal, and yet who is horribly inept at doing so.

And so, Pike and his friends quickly ran over a couple, namely Tyro and Little Rex.

Of course for a while the encounters were a bit lopsided. Which naturally encouraged Tyro to begin finding new henchme…er…thugs.

Plus Tyro learned to walk on two legs (OK so he went from being a Dimetredon to a Spinosaurus). Pike wasn't too happy with me about that fact.

And so things went on, until things got very crowded as the numbers of Pikes and Tyro's friends evened out.

There was obviously only one possible outcome from all this buildup that could come out of the mind of a kid raised on the cartoons of the 80s and 90s.

The groups would have to get organized.

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