by Starkings, Ladronn and Joe Casey

Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection is the Origin of Hip Flask, Comicraft's grim yet affable hippopotamime hero, and serves as prologue to the forthcoming mini-series HIP FLASK: THE BIG HERE & THE LONG NOW premiering spring, 2003!

Somewhere in the African desert, thousands of miles from civilization, a group of geneticists led by Kazushi Nikken, has conducted unholy experiments involving both human and animal DNA. This is the story of the birth of Hieronymous Flask and his eventual liberation from the torturous world of MAPPO.