| The Tale of One Bad Rat | |
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 Cover of The Tale of One Bad Rat 1 (October 1994), art by Bryan Talbot | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Mini-series |
| Publication date | October 1994 – January 1995 |
| No. of issues | 4 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Bryan Talbot |
| Written by | Bryan Talbot |
| Artist(s) | Bryan Talbot |
| Letterer(s) | Bryan Talbot |
| Editor(s) | Dick Hansom Randy Stradley |
| Collected editions | |
| The Tale of One Bad Rat | ISBN 1-56971-077-5 |
The Tale of One Bad Rat is a 4-issue comic book limited series by Bryan Talbot. It was first published by Dark Horse Comics in 1994 and later brought out in a collected edition.
The story is about a victim of child abuse. It makes heavy reference to the works of Beatrix Potter.
One Bad Rat is the most mainstream of Talbot's works and is drawn in a simple, naturalistic style with painted colours. Unusually for Talbot (and the comics industry in general), all of the characters were drawn from life, and the locations from photographs of real places.