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...different than the American version? I noticed one comic where Batman was fighting a man who could change into a praying mantis, a drill bit, a pterodactyl...They took it back to the '40s, where there wasn't any deep psychological exploration, just a slam-bang fun thing. There's this one villain called Lord Death Man, and his ability is basically to die. But much more importantly, he comes back to life and starts to haunt Batman's dreams. All kinds of wonderful weird things happen that don't get explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Designer Chip Kidd | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...landed at college a few years later, at the very moment the number of female undergraduates nationally reached parity with that of men--though my school was still 3-to-2 male. Like my peers, I suspect, for every pterodactyl who thought I had no business being there, I found three gentle mentors who smoothed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Affirmative Action for Boys | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...dismembering a bulldog—perhaps not our best or most original idea, but an entertaining one nonetheless—Yale’s effort was downright quizzical. Amidst the nonsense, one thing was clear: Yale was portrayed as a lumbering and sluggish dragon that only felled menacing pterodactyl-like birds when they careened into it. Clearly, the Yale Band agrees that its school is stuck in the Stone Age. And then there was frigid New Haven itself. Yalies may have a shorter route home and a few more days of Thanksgiving break, but they have to call that armpit...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Utter Domination | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

...Porntotube.com. Pterodactyl porn: Really? You still haven’t seen it. Get on it, people...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 WEBSITES | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...more funny than frightening. Leading the forces of evil is the Horned King. His body is skeletal, his voice sepulchral, and his eyes glow red like coals. His aide-de-camp is a little green horror known appropriately as Creeper, and his castle is guarded by two pterodactyl-like birds, flapping, screeching, ever ready to swoop down and carry off the better elements populating this mythical kingdom. Eventually, the evil monarch and his minions find out from our friends where the long-hidden black cauldron lies and set loose upon the world the dreadful army of the dead it contains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: PG Thrills in the Land of Legend: The Black Cauldron | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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