History ComicBook / Flesh

* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Flesh" can refer both to what dinosaurs are hunted for, and what the human characters [[KillEmAll inevitably become]].

* EyeScream: Old One Eye wants to kill the farmers in part because one of them, AntiHero protagonist Earl Reagen, gouged out one of her eyes, hence the moniker.

* ArtisticLicensePalaeontology: Leaving aside instances of [[ScienceMarchesOn the work becoming outdated]], there are a lot of things the comic gets just plain wrong.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.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Claw Carvers backstory in the ''Hand of Glory'' arc reveals his first murder was a SerialKiller who had tortured and maimed his mother. The female protagonist of the ''Texas'' arc, [[spoiler: is his daughter]], whom he adored whenever he was home with her.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Arguably the point of the comic. The dinosaurs are pretty nasty in their own right, especially Old One-Eye, but the author never misses an opportunity to remind us of how greedy and selfish the humans are. It gets really {{Anvilicious}} with the inclusion of a fake advertisement for Trans-Time dinosaur meat, which ends with author commenting that "the biggest monster of all is the one sitting at the table!"

* {{Expy}}: The ''Chronocide'' arc features a ''Tylosaurus'' nicknamed "Bloody Mary", characterized by a harpoon embedded in her jaw, making her essentially a prehistoric version of ''Hookjaw''.

* TyrannosaurusRex: Old One-Eye herself.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Claw Carvers backstory in ''Hand of Glory'' reveals his first murder was a SerialKiller who had tortured and maimed his mother. The female protagonist of the sequel series, ''Texas'', [[spoiler: is his daughter]], whom he adored whenever he was home with her.
* {{Expy}}: The Chronocide arc features a ''Tylosaurus'' nicknamed "Bloody Mary", characterized by a harpoon embedded in her jaw, making her essentially a prehistoric version of ''Hookjaw''.

* ShoutOut: The Chronocide arc features a ''Tylosaurus'' nicknamed "Bloody Mary", characterized by a harpoon embedded in her jaw, making her essentially a prehistoric version of ''Hookjaw''.

* EvenEvilHadLoved: Claw Carvers backstory in ''Hand of Glory'' reveals his first murder was a SerialKiller who had tortured and maimed his mother. The female protagonist of the sequel series, ''Texas'', [[spoiler: is his daughter]], whom he adored whenever he was home with her.

* NatureIsNotNice: An important theme of the series, as it was in [[ThreteningShark ''Hookjaw'']] and would go on to be in [[BearsAreBadNews ''Shako'']].

* NatureIsNotNice: An important theme of the series, as it was in ''Hookjaw'' and would go on to be in ''Shako''.

* 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 [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Satanus]]. After that, he'd go on to be a pet to the son of ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock''.

* MisplacedWildlife: It would be a lot easier to name the species that aren't misplaced in this series. The [=TransTime=] Base in Book 1 is located in England, but none of the dinosaurs shown are from there.

* StockDinosaurs: Book 1 has ''Tyrannosaurus, Deinonychus, Styracosaurus, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus,'' and ''Spinosaurus''. Although, at the time, both ''Deinonychus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' were actually SeldomSeenSpecies. The Chronocide arc adds the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus'' and the saber-toothed cat ''Smilodon''.

* StockDinosaurs: Book 1 has ''Tyrannosaurus, Deinonychus, Styracosaurus, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus,'' and ''Spinosaurus''. Although, at the time, both ''Deinonychus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' were actually SeldomSeenSpecies.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: At the time Book 1 was originally released, the ''Deinonychus'' would have been this, since it would be more than a decade before raptors truly became StockDinosaurs. ''Alamosaurus'', ''Deinocheirus'', and ''Ouranosaurus'' also appear in Book 1. Book 2 contains more, such as ''Askeptosaurus, Tanystropheus, Mixosaurus,'' and ''Nothosaurus''. Notably, no actual dinosaurs appear in Book 2.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: At the time Book 1 was originally released, the ''Deinonychus'' would have been this, since it would be more than a decade before raptors truly became StockDinosaurs. ''Alamosaurus'', ''Deinocheirus'', and ''Ouranosaurus'' also appear in Book 1. Book 2 contains more, such as ''Askeptosaurus, Tanystropheus, Mixosaurus,'' and ''Nothosaurus''.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Big Hungry is this for Old One-Eye.

* AnArmAndALeg: Claw Carver loses a hand in a fight with a ''Deinonychus''. He replaces it with the dinosaur's claw.

* AnArmAndALeg: Claw Carver loses a hand to a dinosaur bite. He replaces it with a dinosaur's claw.