MeZolith debuted in The DFC, the children’s anthology weekly which ran between 2008 and 2009, then died and was resurrected three years later, with greater success, as the appropriately named The Phoenix. Even among that comic’s gallimaufry of styles and genres – comedy, sci-fi drama, funny-animal cartoons, schoolyard adventure – MeZolith’s Stone Age rites-of-passage saga stood out. Poised, poignant, sombre, creepy, occasionally gory, often scary, the strip almost seemed out of place, quite at odds with the company it kept, like a message beamed in from an altogether different sector of the galaxy.
Deservedly it was one of the first DFC strips to be republished in a collected edition. In this format its episodic narrative can be seen to hang together seamlessly, beautifully, as a whole. The setting is Britain…
