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TyrannoMax and the Warriors of the Core, 1986, Buzby-Spurlock Animation

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TryannoMax, Issue 25, October 1977

Cocytus Comics Group, Story by Barry McDermit, lines by Midge Joulet & Dale Ethree, Colors and Letters by H. Haddaway.

Issue #25. It's a quiet day so the Core team gets some R&R. TryannoMax hunts down Dr. Underfang for a long-overdue confrontation, DeinoSteve and PteroDarla finally have that date, and Wally Manmoth visits home. So when Ape-Tomic Pyle returns from the grave to exact his revenge, only TriceraBruce remains to stand in his way. One wounded dinoid against a living nuclear ape-pocalypse, with the populace of Wisconsin in the balance.

Running for an astounding 80 issues, TyrannoMax was the headline comic from Cocytus in the 1970s, and was the primary motivator behind Buzby-Spurlock buying out Cocytus in '83.

While the comic series is considered the root of the empire that would create the animated series and live action movie, the concept was first introduced in short story "Humanity, My Young Cousin" in the pulp-sci-fi magazine Stunning True-Life Tales of Science Fiction, a few years earlier.

May be posting interior pages soon.

Full details under the fold.

TyrannoMax is my AI dinosaur test kitchen, where I see how ideas work out before trying them on more serious projects.

Here, I've used Dall-E 3 through Bing and Midjourney to create comic assets, which I then de-color and rework into inks in a similar fashion to my AI-comic reworkings like Robots Ruined the Internet and Let's Gib About Ib, or any of my other fake comic covers. TriceraBruce and Ape-Tomic Pyle were generated with Dall-E 3, and the background was made in Midjourney.

This makes the basic inks, from there I correct anatomical problems, cleanup AI wonk, and generally re-ink where things are needed.

Once I have the "inks" its then a matter of doing the coloring and graphic design work the old fashioned way. I used my recreation of the 1981 DC comics palette for my colors, used post-processing to get the printed look, and there you go.

My prompt format for the characters is:

A -anthro wearing , long tail (if a dinosaur) , comic panel by 1968, in the style of 1960s Marvel comics

Because all weights are averaged a bit, to get a 1970s comic look, you have to prompt for late 60s, ortherwise it looks late 80s.

Background prompt was:

a distant city, a rocket launches from its center, flying toward the sky, comic illustration by jack kirby, inked lines, flat color, blue sky, green grass, orange rocket, from 1968

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TyrannoMax Trading Card & Sticker Album, Stikks™ Company, Inc. Selections from Set 1: Fear the Roar!

Scans from my collection. If only they were in mint condition.

Can you guess what act of US history inspired the Ape-Tomic Pyle? If you can't, watch the Atomic Cafe, it's free on Tubi at time of post.

Full breakdown on how it got done in part 1, here.

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TriceraBruce

TyrannoMax Model Sheets Buzby-Spurlock Animation Pictures 'Ink'

I was a TriceraBruce kid. Everyone wanted to be DeinoSteve or TyrannoMax, but Bruce was the bookish planner of the team and that resonates. He and BrontoSarah were the ones finding out the secrets of the DinoCarrier's Lemurian technology and he was the one who built the various vehicles and gadgets. Who didn't want to make a cool dinosaur-faced ATV?

Bruce is Max's right claw man and best friend. His role on the team is to encourage them to stop and think before acting and learn about a problem before tackling it, being the Ego in the Steve-Bruce-Max Id-Ego-Superego triumvirate.

By contrast, in battle he's a tank, shrugging off attacks that would K.O. other teammates and smashing through problems with his head.

His psychic power got a bit of an upgrade in the show. In the comics his psychometry was just limited to reading the vibrations of objects to get an understanding of their history and how they work. In the show this was expanded to allow him to manipulate the vibrational frequency of things he's touching, which he could use to power up his horns by striking them like a tuning fork, and let him use his Lemurian artifact, the Crystal Trident.

Show version is still a vegetarian like the comic one, scarfing down on popcorn when the meat-eaters on the team are enjoying victory brats (the hot dogs, not obnoxious children).

Bruce's primary nemesis, counterintuitively, is ApeTomic Pyle, rather than a mad scienist villain like Dr. Underfang or The-Decapitated-Head-of-Sigmund-Freud-on-a-Robot-Spider-Body. ApeTomic is all aggression and chaotic rage, stronger in terms of raw power, and very hard to plan for, forcing Bruce to dig deep to find solutions.

More sheets as I get 'em processed. Enjoy.

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TyrannoMax Theme Song (Season 1)

TyrannoMax and the Warriors of the Core (or TyrannoMax and the Heroes of the Core if you're from the UK) from Buzby-Spurlock Animation is a forgotten 80s gem, based on the comics from Cocytus Comics.

The cartoon emphasized Dr. Underfang as a primary antagonist, re-contextualizing most of the side-villains as his minions or creations directly. The 'Fossilized Time' origin was simplified into a hollow earth accessed via portals, and a lot was obviously softened for kids TV, particularly DeinoSteve.

It also where a lot of the iconic aspects of the film came from. The Dinoid society already had high-tech devices when the toon starts, where in the comics TriceraBruce invented their gadgets by reverse-engineering human and Ultramerican tech. Wally is in high school instead of being college age and Bobby is a regular member of the cast along with Max's show-original little cousin Wrexy.

The scads of toy-based characters go without saying.

Like most Buzby-Spurlock productions, TyrannoMax is largely lost media. This comes down mainly to the company's legal troubles in the 90s preventing official release. Here's hoping the new buyout means re-release.

"Warriors of the Core, lets hear that roar!"

Screencap is three individual multi-gen composites and overpaintings with extensive photomanipulation. The song was generated with SunoAI.

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Making raw material for my TyrannoMax story when, well-

You'll know when you see it.