Review: Jim Lawson's 1993 Dino Island

I've probably been looking for Jim Lawson's 1993, two-issue mini-series Dino Island in back issue bins for at least 25 years now...unsuccessfully. Lawson is, as you probably know, an alum of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Mirage Studios, having drawn many issues of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series (including the "City At War" arc) and its sister series Tales of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, written and drawn the entirety of the full-color volume 2, drawn the Laird-written volume 4 and various and sundry other TMNT works, including the newspaper comic strip, a volume of the Pallaium role-playing game and the adaptations of the characters' first two films. I haven't exactly kept track, but I'm pretty sure Lawson remains the most prolific artist to ever draw the characters, his page count dwarfing that of any other contender. I've come to appreciate Lawson's idiosyncratic work more and more as time went on, and, at some point I remembered a Mirage house ad for his…