The War That Time Forgot #3

Issue three of DC's twelve-part series drops readers right into prehistoric pandemonium: the cover by Mark Schultz throws a bare-chested blond warrior and a white-haired older man into a desperate struggle against a roaring winged dinosaur, while a smaller reptilian creature lunges from the rocky ledge behind them, pterosaurs wheel through an amber sky, and a figure in white scrambles nearby with pistol raised. Writer Bruce Jones, artist Al Barrionuevo, and inker Jimmy Palmiotti bring the "Contact" chapter of this ambitious 2008 series to life with a premise that never gets old — soldiers and survivors pitched against creatures that evolution left far behind.