Random Comics Theatre
Feud #3 [1993]
The "Heavy Hitters" line was the last gasp of Marvel's Epic imprint, launching some dozen or so titles, mostly mini-series, in 1993. It seems not to work as the whole Epic line pretty much wrapped up, except for a few stragglers, by mid-1994. The "Heavy Hitters" line felt more like some 1980s independent comics from First or Comico than it did the 1980s Epic line, with many of the creators you'd find in those lines.
I didn't care for or stick with most of the titles in the line that I tried, but I did enjoy this one created by Mark Nelson and Mike Baron. The two had previously worked well together on back-ups of various Baron books at First in the 1980s. This series featured a fantasy world with four rival lizard/dinosaur species, the Stokers, Skids, Grunts and Kites. Various factions within the groups try to undermine the precarious inter-relationships of the groups, with sometimes hilarious and always violent results. Like most of Baron's writing, it can take a little bit to get into the rhythms of it, but once it clicks it really works, and Nelson's artwork is really strong, definitely suited to drawing all these strange creature and their anachronistic technological world
The 4-issue series was followed up by a short story in the HEAVY HITTERS ANNUAL. Don't think any of it has ever been reprinted.
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