Flesh

Flesh is a long running series created by Pat Mills which originally appeared in 2000AD #1-19 in 1977 and #86-99 in 1978-79 (as well as the 1978 2000AD Annual), and has since returned in 2000AD #800-808 (1992), #817-825 (1993), #973-979 (1996), #1034 (1997), #1526 (2007), #1724-1733 (2011), #1774-1785 (2012) and #1850-1861 (2013).

Backstory
Fleash concerns cowboys from the future sent back in time by the Trans Time Corporation to farm dinosaur flesh in order to feed people in their own time, where the world is in the grip of global food shortages. The first two books largely concerned themselves with the conflicts between the cowboys, nominally led by Earl Reagan, and the 120 year old Tyrannosaur Old One Eye, and between Reagan and the vicious and untrustworthy Claw Carver, a man who wears a dinosaurs claw in place of his missing right hand. Later stories, though, have focused more on the moral implications of Trans Time's activities, as well as science fiction concepts such as historical change caused by time travel, human/dinosaur hybrids, and a Tyrannosaur called Gorehead which became a tremendous threat after becoming unanchored in time. The cast has expanded to include such characters as Vegas Carter (secretly the daughter of Claw Carver and the prostitute Janie B Goode), Boots McGurk (who lost his life killing Gorehead), Bull Svensson and his submarine crew (Bull was murdered by Claw Carver) and the insane Pastor Sunday, who believes the Cretaceous period is Hell, and who is actually a serial killer responsible for the death of Vegas Carter's mother). Another significant 'character' was the giant Plesiosaur Big Hungry, which hated Claw Carver for killing its offspring and which was eventually transported accidentally through time to become the Loch Ness Monster.

Links to Other 2000AD Series'
Flesh has ties to at least three other series' in 2000AD, and is part of the loosely connected shared universe in which several of Pat Mills' stories exist. Satanus, the cloned son of Old One Eye, first appeared in the Judge Dredd story The Cursed Earth, and was later taken even further into the future by the magicks of Thoth in Nemesis the Warlock. Meanwhile, Golgotha, son of Satanys and grandson of Old One Eye, faced the ABC Warriors in their original series.

Other creators to have worked on Flesh include Kelvin Gosnell, Steve White, Dan Abnett, Steve MacManus and David Bishop.