Cavewoman

Cavewoman is an American alternative comic book created by writer-artist Budd Root, and published primarily by Basement Comics and additionally by Caliber Comics and Avatar Press. The story follows superhuman Meriem Cooper, a 19-year-old jungle woman who battles dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures in the Cretaceous period.

Meriem Cooper was born in Marshville, Oregon July of 1980. Her father's name was Robert Adam Cooper; her mother was Gail Nicole Reicher. After Meriem father dies her mother turns to the drug life and falls in with unsavory men. Her mother lets her dealers take pictures or her and Meriem to pay for her habit. Meriem’s grandfather, Francis Peacock Reicher, who was also called "Gramp", learns of this and isn't happy. Meriem's grandfather was a brilliant scientist. Gramp beats up the dealers and takes Meriem away on a hover cycle from the future, which is where he intends to take her. When they arrive at Gramp's laboratory, he explains to her the time-machine and body enhancing device that allows living beings to pass through the time stream. This is when she first meets Klyde, Gramp's 15 foot tall lab gorilla. Klyde had been altered by the body enhancer before Gramp perfected it, and as a result he grew. Gramp also taught Klyde sign language. After Gramps enhances Meriem, they time travel just as the government men destroy Gramp's lab. Something goes wrong, and they end up in the past instead.