If only every chef had given his victim the chance to fight back, I would probably be less judgemental about people's actions to gobble down steak.

Voracious, published by Action Lab Comics in 2016 sees a young man driven to leave his old life after a fire takes the life of his sister.

Apparently, he really cared about her.

Fuck me. That fire is a rager.

This fire is the reason we are supposed to care about Nate. Bad stuff has happened to him. His sister is dead. And his old DVDs, comic book collection and 1/15th scale Black Widow Statue (of Scarlett Johannson) all got destroyed. Pooh.

Nate moves back out to Utah where his beloved granny lives. Unimaginatively, the town is called Blackfossil. Let me just clarify a point here. Essentially, this book is about a young man who time travels and gets back on his path as a chef by cooking dinosaurs. And the town he moves back to is called Blackfossil.

I always like these landscape artworks. The best part of the recent Ghost Rider books I've wasted time reading, were the panoramic shots.

It would have been more creative to name the restaurant Blackfossil. Not the town.

I'm jumping to events that I haven't even read about. Maybe he doesn't even open his own restaurant. Maybe he realises his woes and turns vegan after looking into his victim's eyes.

Nate's first victim? A vicious flying dinosaur.

And this dish is best served flame-roasted. In the eyeball.

In his defence, Nate was attacked by the dinosaur who was unprovoked. His punishment was death by fire and to be dragged back into the future seventy million years and eaten by a bunch of artery-clogged sedentary globs. This is my take on the developed world. We are a collective lump of cholesterol wrapped in skin.

And by we, I mean everyone else.

I'm a whole-food vegan. I am just a kale-glob with "hay breath". True story. Kids at school call me "hay breath".

How the hell does Nate time travel?

Iron Man meets 1800's diving suit.

As it turns out, Nate is informed that his rich, scientist/inventor uncle Tony passed away and left him half a million in cash and his estate (along with his toys).

Of course, Nate immediately tries out the gear, takes himself back to the cretaceous period and drags back a dino. Not before trying the charred remains of the creature's neck in-situ because he was hungry. Yeah. That would be my first instinct. And this was less than fifteen minutes before the suit said it had charged up enough to return back to the present day. Couldn't he wait?

In case you're wondering, there's a special problem with the suit. Each suit is time fixed so there's no way he can go back and save his sister. According to his crazy, reclusive uncle, if he were able to do so, he would have done it already.

This was a painful read, yet somehow I want to know more.

I'm going to do something important. The next article you read about Voracious will have involved me time travelling. When you read it, you'll be transported back (probably hours) to the time that I read all those captions and speech bubbles.

Please let me be the idiot that reads it. Your time is just too valuable.

All the best,

Nick.

All content is original and belongs to @nickmorphew. [5 June 2018]

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