Fighting Figurines is the title of a British comic book

History of the British comic

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 story written by Paul Honeyford

Paul Honeyford

Paul Honeyford is an English biographer and writer who has worked on a number of music and sport related materials. His biography of Paul Weller's band The Jam was the first such biography, written in consultation with the band at a time when they were at the peak of their success...

 and illustrated by Dave Heaven

Dave Heaven

David Andrew Rhys Heaven is a Welsh-descended musician of some renown with a focus on smooth jazz and fusion. Songs such as Midnight Dean Street, Do It Again and Moonflower brought him to the attention of guitarist Pete Downes who invited him to play with PD3, a jazz group with significant and...

. Originally serialised in Revolver in 1990, it was later collected into a single edition by Quality Communications

Quality Communications

Quality Communications is a British publishing company founded by Dez Skinn in 1982. Quality was initially formed to publish the award-winning monthly comics anthology Warrior. The company has been involved with comics in both the UK and the U.S., mainly with reprint material from Warrior and...

 in 1996

1994 in comics

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Overview

Described as a science fiction

Science fiction

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 series Fighting Figurines was one of the secondary stories in Revolver.
The story is an example of Honeyford and Heaven's post-funk psychedelic

Psychedelic

The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...

story-telling style which took an off-beat view of world affairs.

After Revolver was cancelled the story remained out of print before Quality released it in a soft back graphic edition.