Jurassic Park: Redemption by IDW Comics

by Alan M Rogers

WRITER: Bob Schreck

ARTIST: Nate Van Dyke

COLORIST: Jamie Grant & Dave Stewart

LETTERER: Chris Mowry

EDITOR: Tom Waltz

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Bobby Curnow

COVER A: Tom Yeates

COVER B: Frank Miller

It’s been 13 years since little Tim and Lex Murphy escaped from the island of Isla Sorna, and recent public opinion has reversed, with the world clamoring for authorities to re-open Jurassic Park! With the help of their controversial Granddad’s inheritance and their own sharp wits, a secret deal is struck to open a new park! This time they’ll get it right… right? Bob Schreck makes his writing debut on this all-new tale, under covers from fellow industry legends Frank Miller and Tom Yeates!

Humanity at the top of the food chain.

Most of us know it; instinctively, deep in our bones. It’s one of those things, like gravity, that we don’t ever think about.

But for the fortunate few who survived a trip to Isla Nublar – aka Jurassic Park – know better. Humans haven’t been at the top of the food chains since John Hammond of InGen Corp realized a grand scientific dream and re-created dinosaurs as the main attraction in a resort-style theme park.

Jurassic Park is not a secret; too many tourists have been eaten, a T-Rex ran through the streets of Manhattan and there may or may not be Pteradons flying around somewhere near Costa Rica.

Lex Murphy is no longer a whiz-kid on a field trip to her grandfather’s mad science experiment; she’s an international celebrity and a business woman to be reckoned with. Tim isn’t a precocious kid brother anymore; he’s inherited InGen from John Hammond and has proven that insanity runs in the family by allowing a strange person on the other end of a computer to con him into cloning more dinosaurs.

In his defense, he thinks it’s just the cuddly herbivores.

But like his grandfather, he doesn’t see the whole picture. While his sister begs the UN to continue blockading the islands, to keep the dinosaurs contained and keep them from getting loose and making mankind into a couple of billion bipedal snacks, Tim is sneaking around and manipulating senators into helping him make more dinosaurs.

Bob Schreck’s comic is very true to Michael Crichton’s original vision of f creators with the knowledge, ability and resources to do the impossible but without the conscience to first answer “why not?” and of unscrupulous people more interested in making money than their fellow person not getting eaten.

The story is full of skillful foreshadowing, easy-to-follow dialogue and sets up a story that promises to not only interesting, but promises to give us the same shivers the movies did.

Dinosaurs, mad science, corrupt politicians, shadowy puppetmasters, and a new generation taking up the mantle of protecting the planet from big, nasty things that want to eat everyone.

This one’s got a bit of everything – and the story has just started!