A webcomic series written by K.E. Detwiler. Formerly called The Adventures of Dino-Boy and The New Adventures of Dino-Boy, Detwiler eventually settled on the overall name Dino-Boy. Unlike most other webcomics, which have a daily updating storyline, Dino-Boy is published more like a comic book series, with a new "issue" out every other month or so.
The series revolves around the actions of Evan Nedelka, otherwise known as the superhero Dino-Boy (AKA the Dinosaur), a were-saurian who received his powers through an accident in the local natural history museum, and his younger sister, Halle Nedelka (hero name Blue Jay), a Badass Normal who wears an anti-gravity vest. The story started out with the young heroes in grade school, but a subsequent Time Skip now has the characters as young adults, attending college. While at first glance the series seems to be about Evan and Halle fighting crime, most stories feature a lesson about life, the universe, and stuff like that.
The series itself can be found here
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This webcomic provides examples of:
- Hard Work Hardly Works: Used pretty straight with Dino-Boy and some villains, but strongly averted with Blue Jay, who trained herself to impressive levels, and invoked with Night Owl.
- Heroic BSoD: Dino-Boy has a looong one of these when he unlocks his Superpowered Evil Side and nearly kills his sister and the Big Bad of the original series. In fact he becomes a pacifist for most of the Time Skip, only becoming a superhero again when the story starts back up.
- Our Werebeasts Are Different: Dino-Boy can switch between human and saurian forms and becomes more of a Mix-and-Match Critter as Chaos Dino Boy, gaining various parts from different dinosaur species.
- Superpowered Evil Side: When Monkey nearly beats Talon to death, Dino-Boy finally snaps and turns into Chaos Dino Boy, an unrelenting monster covered in spikes, armor and all sorts of other nasty implements. And he has no qualms about ripping his enemies to pieces. Luckily Dino-Boy manages to revert back before killing the Monkey.
