“Me an’ Ol’ Rex”

8 pgs. Appeared first time [COLOR] in Twisted Tales #3 (1983).
Story: Bruce Jones. Art: Richard Corben (no signiture). Color: Steve Cliff. Lettering: printed (Corben).

All foreign reprints in [B&W]:
France [FRA]: as “Rex et moi”, [B&W] (!) in Spécial U.S.A. [II] #14/15 (1985), and [B&W] (!) in Créatures de crève (1989).
Italy [ITA]: as “Rex ed io”, [B&W] (!) in L’Eternauta #22.
Spain [SPA]: as “Rex y yo”, [B&W] (!) in Creepy [SPA] #47 (1983).

Style: Color with black line. Genre: Horror. Time Span: No particular moment of time. Nudity: None.
Keywords: Boy. Father. Violence. Dinosaur. Imagination.
Synopsis: Young boy lives in countryside with father. He gets beaten by everybody. One day he finds a dinosaur and after that he has to feed it.
Comment: Bruce Jones’s story combines beautifully truth and imaginary worlds. Corben’s art has got interesting parts of cuteness with lots of blood. There’s warmth in this story, though it has brutal basetone.