I like your version better, the comic looks like a tooth brush spokesperson. =+}

The dental part design is indeed strange, but finally, why not ? Nature proved it can give birth to creatures with completely improbable features, but it works.....

This is most true and I think there are species of lizards that don't have any teeth and that exterrior facial forms the equivalent of a toothy gum line. =+o

Yep, and if you think about it, all birds completely lost their teeth !!!! Though some beaks (like geese's) developped back carved surfaces after......

This is very true, and even tho I know birds decended from reptiles I tend to keep forgetting that fact. =+P

Reptilian's are cool. Inspired by wackos out their I tried to design one such race: http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicspecies.htm

The bottom ones here are my best attempt at their anatomy: http://messman.deviantart.com/art/G.....-133-123163413

But yeah: it is fun designing species: http://messman.deviantart.com/art/G.....122A-122014705

Heh heh, nice ones :3
Needs some details though, I'd especially like to see what the face would look like !! ;3

I had difficulty making their faces so they each one could be unique but still cartoony. I should post some trials.

The idea of evolving intelligent therapods is a fascinating one. The only criticism I'd have of this design is that the jaws seem to take up too much of the skull, resulting in reduction of the braincase.

I suppose that it's a question of aesthetics. Reducing the jaws would make them look less dinosauroid while enlarging the top of the skull would make them look more like "The Leader" from Marvel Comics.

Aesthetics and also logic : what I described isn't supposed to be that much evoluted yet, and by the way evolution would have had much work on theropods that had a very long snout, proportionnally longer than the small mammals we come from, not even counting the primates that almost got no muzzle at all !!

Ah! - My jumping to conclusions. Of course, evolution never really stops, though anatomical forms may sometimes be preserved for long times without obvious changes (I was reading an article not long ago that pointed out a couple of complex enzymes which performed the same function but which had quite different amino acid sequences. This was somewhat puzzling since the organisms should not be too distantly related. But when X-ray crystallographic reconstructions of the two molecules were superimposed, the shapes were almost perfect matches - indicating that the intervening mutations changed amino acid sequences extensively, but each step was small enough to preserve the molecule's functional structure).

Are you going to give your evolved therapods a more humanoid upright stance or keep the head-forward-balanced-by-tail dinosaurid stance? If more upright, there is less need for a tail and that would probably reduce it. If the head is to contain an enlarging brain, then the tail would need to remain large or even grow to counter the weight. One problem with the forward-leaning stance is that it would be harder for the large head to look down at the hands (which, in either case, would have to enlarge and redevelop more digits).

I hope you won't fall into the error of giving your "brainier" therapods the sort of tiny necks that our artists give to aliens. As the head gets bigger and heavier, the neck becomes a real weak spot. Muscles like the sternomastoid at the sides and the trapezius in the back need to become larger and stronger to reliably support the heavier head. And there must be a disproportionately great increase in the carotids and jugulars to support the blood requirements of the larger brain. It seems to appeal to our eyes that a big cranium and a small head gives an "evolved" or "intellectual" look, but if such a creature is not going to break its' own neck with a sharp movement of the body, the neck is going to have to disappear into the shoulders.

Yrs for better and more advanced brains...

Yep, I am aware about the tail question (which makes almost all furries totally un-credible in terms of evolution). I'm not going to develop them furthermore though, these were just head studies, not to be made into a full humanoïd.
I should confess I never really thought about the neck but you are quite right ; that's when I realize that I spontaneously want to draw thick necks for strong characters...