To this point, the pages of this episode were mostly concerned with this Elvis loving mutant tearing through downtown Rome with a chainsaw – in graphic detail, complete with people getting their limbs and faces chainsawed in half. Here, he runs into a group of nearly feral children (keep in mind that the ringleader with the beret is only three and a half) who attacks him with squirtguns filled with acid. In the next page, those same children gang up and kill him with absolutely no repercussion whatsoever. Brutal, brutal stuff.

For the past few months, the letters column has been printing complaints about how violent this strip has been, complete with a lack of understanding on the part of Lou Stathis (who represented the voice of editorial control). From the magazine’s point of view, this whole series is just a very broad satire and this level of death and destruction is presented for a laugh. I’m not so sure about that.

(Heavy Metal issue #86, May 1984 – Page 58 Ranxerox by Tamburini and Liberatore)