A Comic Disaster, an Art Fossil

I found two fun things yesterday. First is Mike Russell's CulturePulp online comic, where the latest entry is a spoof on geological disaster movies featuring "Lava Tornado!" Old fuddy-duddy that I am, I've written about the twisted ideas that moviemakers have about geologic hazards, but this guy has a deft touch and much better knowledge of film clichés. (More on geology and the movies plus some reader ideas)

On the mind-boggling side is the modest Triloblog, which features not trilobite fossils, but artists' sculptures, photos and drawings of trilobites. Andrew Scott is the site's owner and a wide-ranging fellow with no academic training, just the right sort of wonder about his subjects. Trilobites deserve that as well as the scientific attention.