I’d really like some help finding a comic I haven’t read since I was in school in 2001. I’ve tried googling it with no luck. I swear it was called ‘F.R.E.A.K’ or something. The front cover had a teenager jumping in the air clutching/firing lightning from his hands. There were two issues I think, one with a blue background cover and one with a green background.
It was about some teenager who stumbles into an alternate dimension (after getting beaten up in the street by hooligans) and meets a bipedal lioness who can talk. There were other animal people, and they were at war.
The lions were mostly police, and some of the characters had psychic powers and they were referred to as ‘TK’s’. The main bad guys were a vulture woman and a fat guy with angel wings. They used guns and were rivals. The angel wings guy says in one panel that ‘I like to keep ahead of the competition’ or something similar, and it shows a severed head on a spike.
The lionnes jams a gun with her mind as the teenager is about to be shot, but Angel wing guy thinks the teen did it and that he’s a ‘TK’.
There were also lizard people and monkey people. One of the lizard people pretends to be prison guard to help rescue the teenager. It was partially comic and partially written story. I remember it being very violent and adult oriented. Please does anyone know what it is? Any help would be most appreciated
I haven’t been able to find a match for you, but perhaps these resources might be helpful:
Comic Database. Search by varied parameters. “Freak” results don’t appear to be matching the description, however seeing the associated comic covers may help. It’s a solid database, with results that can be date sorted. I could well have missed something that you would recognise. Also try inputting, singly, terms like “teenager” (for which the results are huge), but then click on sort options (top right) to get a chronological order, then move through to those fitting the dates you remember.
https://www.comics.org/
Comic forum – perhaps more specialist help may be found
https://classiccomics.org/forum
Forums for both book searches and graphic novels/comics
https://www.sffchronicles.com/#books-and-reading.101
Might there be something here?
https://readcomicsfree.com/search?keyword=Freaks
Image searches (rather than word) looking for comic covers with teenagers and lightening might produce something familiar. Lots of hits come up on image searches with ‘comic’ and ‘freak’ too, and some for ‘bipedal lioness’.
Looking for specialist comic and/or graphic novel forums, and posting there, will find another audience, more expert in these fields.
I hooe you find it.