History ComicBook / Flesh

* StockDinosaurs: Book 1 has ''Tyrannosaurus, Deinonychus, Styracosaurus, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus,'' and ''Spinosaurus''.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Zigzagged; humans are pretty monstrous (The editor's note even states as much), yeah, but Old One Eye herself is described in terms of being an evil-hearted old bitch.

''Flesh'' was a pretty simple story; greedy ranchers from the far future use a time machine to travel back to the Cretaceous period, where they farm dinosaurs for their meat. Eventually, the dinosaurs overpower the time-travelers and kill them all, predominantly a malevolent female ''T. rex'' named Old One Eye.

* ArtisticLicensePalaeontology: Leaving aside instances of ScienceMarchesOn, there are a lot of things the comic gets just plain wrong. For example, none of the dinosaurs depicted in it lived in England. And out of them, only ''Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops'', and ''Alamosaurus'' were actually present at the very end of the Cretaceous. Most of them are actually North American, but the African ''Ouranosaurus'' is inexplicably thrown in too. Additionally, pterosaurs and marine reptiles are regularly referred to as dinosaurs.

* ScienceMarchesOn: The comic has not aged well in respect to its portrayal of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life. To wit:
** Old One-Eye is stated to be 120 years old. We now know that ''T. rex'' didn't usually make it past 30.
** Needless to say, the ''Deinonychus'' (referred to as "terrible claws") are featherless. They are also shown using their giant claws to slash instead of to stab.
** There's a brief mention of "terrible hand" dinosaurs (presumably ''Deinocheirus'') in Old One-Eye's carnivore army. They look like tyrannosaurs with giant hands. We now know, of course, that ''Deinocheirus'' actually looked more like a weird bird than anything else.
** ''Phobosuchus'' is now called ''Deinosuchus''
** The tyrannosaurs are usually shown in the outdated "tripod" pose, with their tales on or near the ground, rather than having their backs held horizontally. This was rectified when Satanus was brought back in ''Judge Dredd''.
** ''Spinosaurus'' briefly appears, and is portrayed as a quadrupedal "carnosaur" rather than the crocodile-headed aquatic creature we now know it to be.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: This comic contains arguably the first ever mention of "feathered" dinosaurs in popular fiction, in the form of furry tyrannosaurs living to the north of the [=TransTime=] base.

* StockUnsolvedMysteries: The extinction of the dinosaurs, the lost city of Atlantis, and the Loch Ness Monster are all cause by Trans-Time mucking about in the timeline.

''Flesh'' was one of the early stories written for ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' by Pat Mills, and was pretty shamelessly ripped off from Mills' earlier work for ''ComicBook/{{Action}}'', ''Hookjaw'' -- although not to the extent of a follow-up story called ''Shako''.

* DownerEnding: Book 2 doesn't end well for anybody. [[TheHeroDies Peters ends up drowning trying to return Atlantis Station to the 23rd century]], [[AssholeVictim Claw Carver gets eaten by Big Hungry]], the rest of the crew end up eaten by Nothosaurs or drowning when the station goes down. JM Grose survives, but is stranded on a tiny lifeboat 200 million years from home. Peters' attempt to bring the station back doesn't even count as a HeroicSacrifice, as all he succeeds in doing is dumping Atlantis station into the ocean in some random time period drowning any potential survivors, where it becomes the legend of {{Atlantis}} and diverting Big Hungry to Loch Ness.

''Flesh'' was a pretty simple story; greedy ranchers from the far future use a time machine to travel back to the Cretaceous period, where they farm dinosaurs for their meat. Eventually, the dinosaurs overpower the time-travelers and kill them all, predominantly a malevolent female tyrannosaur named Old One Eye.

** Old One-Eye is stated to be 120 years old. We now know that tyrannosaurs didn't usually make it past 30.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Big Hungry, the villain of Book 2, is downright humongous for a ''Nothosaurus''. He's stated to weigh 50 tons, and is large enough to bite a submarine in half. Even the largest real life nothosaurs would have barely reached one ton.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Big Hungry, the villain of Book 2, is downright ''humongous'' for a ''Nothosaurus''. He's stated to weigh 50 tons, and is large enough to bite a submarine in half. Even the largest real life nothosaurs would have barely reached one ton.

* ArtisticLicensePalaeontology: Leaving aside instances of ScienceMarchesOn, there are some things the comic gets just plain wrong. For example, none of the dinosaurs depicted in it lived in England. And out of them, only ''Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops'', and ''Alamosaurus'' were actually present at the very end of the Cretaceous. Most of them are actually North American, but the African ''Ouranosaurus'' is inexplicably thrown in too.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: This comic contains arguably the first ever mention of "feathered" dinosaurs in popular fiction, in the form of furry tyrannosaurs living to the north of the TransTime base.

* LegacyCharacter: Old One Eye's would-be usurper son whom she killed and ate would be reincarnated via a cloning process, going on to terrorise the Cursed Earth in the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' arc of the same name as [[NamesToRunAwayReallyFastFrom Satanus]]. After that, he'd go on to be a pet to the son of ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock''.

* ManVersusNature: An important theme of the series, as it was in ''Hookjaw'' and would go on to be in ''Shako''. As in both of them, Nature wins.

* BadassGrandma: Old One Eye, who is over 120 years old and still the main human-munching machine during the course of the series. Even when she was 80, she was still vicious and powerful enough to kill and devour one of her own sons who thought to challenge her for dominance.

* SinisterMinister: Preacher Sunday, a crazy preacher who constantly rants about how the Cretaceous is actually hell and, oh yes, [[spoiler: is actually a serial killer who murders the girlfriend of one of the protagonists]].

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Zigzagged; humans are pretty monstrous, yeah, but Old One Eye herself is described in terms of being an evil-hearted old bitch.

* DumbDinos: The dinosaurs are portrayed as instinct-driven and unintelligent but are incredibly violent in thecase of the predators and still dangerous.

''Flesh'' was one of the early stories written for ''ComicBook/{{2000 AD}}'' by Pat Mills, and was pretty shamelessly ripped off from Mills' earlier work for ''ComicBook/{{Action}}'', ''Hookjaw'' -- although not to the extent of a follow-up story called ''Shako''.