Skorpio #29

When the *Dulcinea* needs a crew, it pulls five improvising actors from the sea—each claiming their stories take on a life of their own. As they begin to perform a scene involving Alvar and Lucia, the line between performance and reality starts to blur.

In a quiet lab haunted by 130 failed experiments, a determined professor finally cracks the code—not with equations, but a single, slippery banana peel. The moment his foot leaves the ground, time itself seems to hiccup, setting off a chain of events he never saw coming.

In "L'ultimo colpo," two friends drift apart—Martin joining the Pinkerton agency, Jonathan building a life on a quiet farm—until fate upends everything when Jonathan is wrongfully imprisoned. Fifteen years later, his release brings Martin face to face with the very man he’s now hired to guard, setting a tense, unresolved stage where loyalty and justice collide.

In the scorching sands of a forgotten frontier, a desperate march to El-Adjiz turns into a test of loyalty and survival when desert guerrillas ambush the legionnaires. Captured and broken, the survivors face a chilling choice—when Willie steps forward to intervene, his actions only deepen the shame and dread among the ranks.

In "Fotografare è vivere," a chance accident at a nuclear electronics exhibition grants a photographer an unexpected, fleeting connection to his subject—pulling the mind of another into his own, if only for a moment. Written with a quiet intensity and rendered in stark, evocative visuals, the story explores the fragile boundary between observer and observed, identity and image.

In a tense, high-stakes thriller from Skorpio #29, Jo finds themselves kidnapped and drugged, only to awaken with a critical mission: stop a cargo ship carrying radioactive waste from being sunk in New York Harbor. The clock is ticking, and the fate of the harbor hangs in the balance—though how Jo came to be involved remains a mystery.