After the events on Talos IV (chronicled in the classic television episode, 'The Menagerie'), Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the Enterprise have been called back to Earth for a debrief. Upon entering our solar system they are attacked by a suspicious spacecraft - could this incident somehow be linked back to Talos - and the fate that ultimately awaits Christopher Pike? --

In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated...except for one very conspicuous clue - the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims' heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case - and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets. --

Great jumping on point! Bram Stoker Award-winner and New York Times best-selling author Nancy Holder tells of bad love gone bad in the comic novella 'D.O.A.' Steamy white hot passion, the business of violent crime, and a girl who should know better! Gorgeous greyscaled art by Shawn Van Briesen! --