Comments on: 02/16/11 – Venezuela: Tepuis

By: christopher

christopher — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:22:57 +0000

@Thomas, I know! When “Up” came out 4 years later, I KNEW they’d copied me! (ha, no, they probably simply read the same National Geographic article)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 19 May 2012 20:49:45 +0000

Lemme see, which movie comes UP now which might have been a little inspired? ;-)

By: christopher

christopher — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:00:49 +0000

@War_Pig, you’ve been? Wow. Total envy. Except the carnivorous bugs.

@Frank, I know! The tepuis in “UP” were so big and colorful and lovely, and it was fun to say “hey, Tepuis! Those are awesome, i drew about them in my wee little comic.” :)

Did you know that when Jurassic Park came out, Bill Waterson didn’t draw the dinosaurs for a while in Calvin and Hobbes because (as he put it) the drawings simply couldn’t live up to the huge screen visuals? Fortunately the tepuis were a one-time bit in Little Dee, so I did not have to ponder the same issue when the movie came out. :)

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:35:59 +0000

I can see Mr. Fredricksen’s house from here!

By: War Pig

War Pig — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:19:53 +0000

Ever been on one? It makes “The Lost World” (the Fernando Lamas, Michael Rennie version) look plausible. Some of them have fauna and even flora which are unique to their particular tepuis. In some cases, you stand on the edge of a tepuis and look out, and down at the clouds and it’s as if you’re in the Twilight Zone. Some of them do indeed have a network of caverns and caves and passages beneath them, carved over eons by rainwater.

And bugs which feast upon human flesh are everywhere, unfortunately.