Dinosaurs in Indianapolis!

Indianapolis, Indiana has a great Children's Museum that might be better described as a very child-friendly science museum. There's a life-sized Brachiosaurus standing outside the building trying to keep her baby from falling into the atrium!

Downstairs is a small but spectacular dinosaur hall, featuring a pair of Tyrannosauruses attacking a Triceratops.

And there's the museum's own Gorgosaurus, a smaller and earlier tyrannosaur, found on a museum-sponsored dig. It had a broken leg that healed improperly, and a scan of the skull revealed that it suffered from a brain tumor that would have affected its balance and ability to run.

And this is Dracorex hogwartsia, or "Dragon King of Hogwarts," so named because the thing looked like a dragon, I guess, and the paleontologists who found it were fantasy fans. Guess what? It was a herbivore.

And now you know a little bit more about what kind of nerd I am.

Beauty and the Beasts

Left to right: uber-agent Stacia Decker, old-lady-frightening writer Kieran Shea, mega-agent David Hale Smith, up-and-coming sicko novelist John Rector, and King of Comics Duane Swierczinski, from DHS's Bouchercon party at Indianapolis's Rathskeller, a building designed by Kurt Vonnegut's grandfather. More pictures to come soon, along with some pencil pages from Roger Petersen for this comic we're soon going to have to come up with a title for.