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Group "First Look" interview with the creative team behind D'Arc Tangent, an independently published science fiction love story about a woman and a robot set against a war that began eighty million years ago. Foglio describes conceiving the story seven years earlier from a sketch of a robot with a sword, shopping it unsuccessfully to underground publishers, and finally self-publishing after collaborating with Freff and recruiting Chris Claremont as a story consultant. They discuss their publishing model of keeping every issue in print, following the trail blazed by Elfquest, and their ambition to create genuine science fiction in comics capable of winning Hugo nominations. Singer, an associate SF editor at Berkley Books who serves as publisher, describes the steep learning curve of dealing with distributors, while the team explains their plan for a roughly sixteen-issue run that weaves multiple prologues and subplots into a novelistic whole.

Foglio discusses his Hugo Award history (youngest winner at 21 in 1977), his work adapting Bob Asprin's Myth-Adventures novels for WaRP Graphics, and the collaborative dynamic with inker Tim Sale and publisher Richard Pini. He reveals that he's been significantly rewriting the source material beyond his original mandate, with Asprin's blessing after the fact; Asprin even took a pay cut so Foglio could receive more money for the extra writing work. Foglio also discusses the troubled history of D'Arc Tangent — a project he co-created with Freff that collapsed when he discovered Freff was erasing and redrawing his pencils — and his upcoming Buck Godot graphic novel series for Starblaze, which he fears will embarrass him by the time it's finally published.

(letters column) — A notable letter from artist/writer Freff sets the record straight on the dissolution of the D'Arc Tangent partnership with Phil Foglio, detailing how creative and legal disputes led to Foglio attempting to claim sole ownership of the jointly-created property. A letter from veteran writer Bill Woolfolk thanks DAK and teases his forthcoming interview on Captain Marvel Jr. and the Golden Age.