Bob Layton

Iron Man and Doctor Doom face off in the future! The armored foes renew their rivalry in a future version of Camelot, where they must join a reborn Arthur and Merlin in battle against some very familiar faces! Then, Loki cultivates chaos as his Acts of Vengeance pit shell-head against the Wrecker and Chemistro! Inside the armor, Tony Stark continues to come to terms with his paralysis, and the Maggia makes its move - but what is its involvement with...

Bloodshot's pursuit of Don Carboni leads to a confrontation with the H.A.R.D. Corps team. Mistaking the nanite-powered Bloodshot for a Harbinger, their mission is to study the ultimate killing machine in action...then capture him! But when Carboni's ambush pits Bloodshot against impossible odds, the team is forced to intervene.

The team travels to the Oregon wilderness to infiltrate a nest of alien arachnids and their strange machines. Meanwhile, Hotshot is inducted into the corps.

To distract her from their marital frustrations, Carmen takes on a consulting job investigating a possessed man. In the mean time, Dr. Mirage's mother decides now is the perfect time to visit her son. How will Dr. Mirage be able to break the news to his mother that he's become a phantom?!

That Dirty Yellow Mustard: Part 3 of 4. An eight issue series consisting of two four part stories. "When You Whiz Upon A Star..." Guess who's coming to dinner! When Earth is visited by travelers from beyond the stars, those bad boys of the Jurassic, Ript and Claude, step up to the plate...as goodwill ambassadors. But will the raunchy raptors wind up as specimens in an interplanetary zoo, or will E.T. be added to Ript and Claude's menu? Comics' "galactic...

That Dirty Yellow Mustard: Part 1 of 4. An eight issue series consisting of two four part stories. "Dinophobia" - Panaam, the aged mentor of Ript and Claude, is being challenged to a death duel in the sky by a younger Pteradon who intends to replace him as the high, exalted wise one. The dueling part doesn't scare him, but the flying part does. So it's up to Ript and Claude to help Panaam overcome his fear of flying. After all, who better to teach...

The life of a hero...six decades in the making. Shortly after the United States' entry into WW II the young Bart Simms, heir to an industrial fortune, makes a discovery that will change his life forever and the course of history along with it. A cache of mysterious electronic equipment hidden within his father's factory, within it a fully loaded state-of-the art computer manufactured by Angel Computers... in 1998! Loaded with schematics for technology...

Bart must recover from his heart-wrenching betrayal quickly, or the future may just go up in smoke! More consequences of the Simms family's activities in the forties! And something BIG may be coming to Earth, and it ain't Orson Welles!

Ript and Claude, the stars of this title are two ignorant, belly-scratching, lazy, disrespecting reptiles with no manners, no culture, no socially redeeming value whatsoever...so who better than them to instruct the granddaddy ancestor of us all -- the world's first proto-human? Being mentors to the human race is no picnic, of course, and to our two heroes, this little mammal is one big pain in their sphincters.

"Much Do-Do About Nothing" - Because you demanded it! It's the last issue of The Bad Eggs! Acclaim gives the comic retailers what they've been asking for -- one less book to clutter up their shelves! Who says we don't care? In this issue, Bob, Don and Gonzalo planned a spectacular finale and were going to reveal the identity of the Mad Dookie Bomber! But after learning of the book's cancellation, they...well...er...let's face it, the heart went out...