Dark Horse Presents 12

An anthology of original stories. Cover by Mark Badger. Next Best, script and art by Paul Chadwick; Concrete wrestles with his feelings for Maureen and a growing sense of isolation; Unable to coax Maureen or Larry into spending the day with him, Concrete occupies some time answering letters. Introducing DinosaurTales in The Portheus Principle, script and art by Mark A. Nelson; A physicist creates a portal to the Earth's past while working on another problem; The portal seems stable and he ventures through to spend a day recording observations of the Cretaceous world; As he returns to the portal, he sees two dinosaurs pass through the portal, collapsing it; He's trapped in a perilous past while the dinosaurs carry a plague with them back to the present. Masque (Part 3), script and art by Mark Badger; Doug takes Albert Montoya to a Monday night Football game; Feeling out of place, Albert decides to return home on his own. 36 pgs., B&W.