Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games was a limited comic series that ran from September 2011 to January 2012. The story followed CIA Agent Daniel Espinoza and his attempts to survive on Isla Nublar which has been taken over by a Nicaraguan drug cartel and is still populated by dinosaurs from Jurassic Park.
Dangerous Games was the third Jurassic Park comic series released by IDW Publishing. It was also the last comic and one of the last pieces of Jurassic media to use the "Jurassic Park" title before the franchise was rebranded with the release of Jurassic World.
Issues[]
- Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games I
- Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games II
- Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games III
- Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games IV
- Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games V
Characters[]
- Daniel Espinoza - an American CIA Agent who infiltrated Gabriel Cazares' Nicaraguan drug cartel. Found out to be a spy, he was dumped into the jungle and fights to survive against the cartel forces and the dinosaurs.
- Frances White - a renown animal behaviorist who formerly worked for InGen at Jurassic Park studying Velociraptors. She has lived for almost 20 years in the jungles of Isla Nublar alongside the dinosaurs and holds a great empathy for them and a hatred of humanity.
- Gabriel Cazares - an obese Nicaraguan drug cartel boss who has taken over Isla Nublar after years of the island being abandoned by InGen.
- Peter Ludlow - one of the higher-ups of Ingen, he was greatly distasteful of Dr. White’s more tame methods of dealing with the dinosaurs, threatening to fire her and replace her with a game warden before actively trying to shoot her. Leaving her to escape and take residency upon the island for the next 20 years.
- Tiburon - the psychotic right hand man of Cazares who is a professional hunter. His name is Spanish for "shark".
- Rexy - the Tyrannosaurus rex originally from Jurassic Park who is now viewed as a "god" by Frances White.
Species[]
- Allosaurus
- Ankylosaurus?
- Archaeopteryx
- Falcarius?
- Megaraptor?
- Parasaurolophus
- Psittacosaurus
- Pteranodon
- Stegosaurus
- Torosaurus?
- Triceratops
- Tyrannosaurus
- Velociraptor
Trivia[]
- The events of this comic series were rendered non-canon just three years later with the release of Jurassic World. This is due to Isla Nublar being portrayed as abandoned all through the 2000s while Jurassic World reveals that the Masrani Global Corporation purchased InGen and built Jurassic World which has operated all throughout the 2000s up to 2015.
- This comic series bares a lot in common with the action film genre and especially action movies of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The similarities include the focus on hand to hand action, a secret agent protagonist, a prominent attractive female character, and a stereotypical antagonist who is a criminal or supervillain. Agent Espinoza even lampshades not using a cheesy one-liner after an extended fight scene.
- However, unlike a majority of action films, Agent Espinoza and Frances White are not romantically linked or become a couple at the end of the story.
- This is the second comic series / Jurassic media which features a Latin American cartel as the main antagonists. In this case it is most likely a Nicaraguan cartel after the Colombian cartel in the Topps Raptor comics.
- Dangerous Games was the first Jurassic Park media to feature feathered dinosaurs (specifically, the Velociraptors). Interestingly, flashbacks to the events of the first movie show the raptors with scales. Feathered dinosaurs would eventually make their film debut in Jurassic World: Dominion.