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3. The Flintstones

It may not be grim ‘n’ gritty per se, but this book is definitely a much more adult take on a child-friendly property.

DC's Hanna Barbera books were a weird experiment, and The Flintstones was its greatest success. Mark Russell took the original series' premise as social satire and turned it up to 11 before he pointed it straight at the Modern Age. Capitalism, gay marriage, climate change, horrible treatment of workers…It was all there, sliced open with deeply funny work. It will make you laugh your ass off while deeply thinking about what you're reading.

Fred and Barney were war vets who’d participated in what was clearly a genocide. Culture was reduced to just buying whatever you can, and the appliances lived a dystopic existence of servitude.

But it was funny, especially because of Steve Pugh's artwork, which was excellent at communicating emotion and humor in an apparently effortless way.