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...civilization with news of astonishing unknown species and animals believed lost to history. No, it's not King Kong-last year's November-December expedition to Indonesia's remote Foja Mountains didn't include any movie stars, and the most amazing mammal they saw, the 15-kg Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo, would have a hard time wreaking havoc on Manhattan. But with claims to have discovered dozens of previously unreported species in a 10,000-sq-km expanse of virgin forest, the 11 American, Australian and Indonesian researchers may have found a biological blockbuster just the same. "Every decade there...
...Long-Lost Kin While the endangered GOLDEN-MANTLED TREE KANGAROO is known to exist on a single mountain in neighboring Papua New Guinea, this was the first time it had been found in Indonesia. The explorers say the Indonesian population could prove critical to the survival of the species...
...Thomas meets the Tree of Life in Aronofsky & Williams' "The Fountain...
...earliest tale has Thomas the Conquistador seeking the tree for his lover Isabel, the Queen of Spain, who is under threat by conspiring forces of the Holy See. The book opens with a Hollywood style set piece as Thomas leads a band of soldiers in an assault on a huge Mayan temple thought to contain the Tree. As hundreds clash on the temple steps a stony-eyed Mayan priest tears the still-beating heart out of a Franciscan friar. It's an exciting sequence that takes best advantage of artist Kent Williams' ability to combine expressive, natural characterization with fantastically...
...their use of layout. Both put readability as a priority, keeping the panel arrangements varied but never confusing, occasionally breaking out of the usual arrangements for heightened effects. But where Williams puts the layout at the service of visual excitement, as in his full-page "splash" of the Tree floating in a bubble in outer space, Huizenga's pop-out moments, like a full page "splash" of Glenn and his wife laying quietly in bed, evoke a greater meaning...