Xenozoic Tales #13 --
"Dangerous Grounds" -- The Wassoon hold a ball to welcome Hannah back to her city. Jack spots Hannah at the arm of Lord Balclutha, and Jack and Hannah make their way to each other and then out of the ball. Balclutha searches for Hannah and finds her in the embrace of Jack behind closed doors. Later, Balclutha invites Jack to visit him and then offers a tour of his home, including the trophy room filled with the skins and stuffed remains of myriad animals. Jack is appalled, but Balclutha asserts that he and Jack are not so terribly different: their skills are much the same, but their rationale for hunting is different. Balclutha invites Jack on a hunt the next day. Jack tells Hannah of the hunt, and she warns him. Hannah reveals she is the official consort of Balclutha, but this does not mean her heart is with him; in fact, she is as appalled by him as Jack is. Jack leaves with Drumheller, who tells of the breaking apart of Hannah and Balclutha, and how Hannah actually wounded Balclutha with her knife. The hunt begins, and along the way, Jack spots a grith looking over them. Suspicious, he offers a warning, and the party is saved from a hidden dinosaur. Meanwhile, we look in on Aduwa and Hannah teaching Hannah's little sister, Hepzibah. Aduwa asserts that Jack is hunting for power in this dangerous game, much as Hannah had done in the past herself. Balclutha and Jack reach their quarry and leave the rest of the party, then Balclutha attacks Jack, telling him that, in fact, Jack is Balclutha's prey this day. Jack runs off and deftly outmaneuvers Balclutha, kicking him where Drumheller has told him that Balclutha remains wounded from Hannah's knife. Back at court, Jack returns, clothes torn and bedraggled. He accosts Drumheller, asserting he figured out Drumheller's plan--that Jack would kill Balclutha--but then reveals that he merely defeated him. Jack announces that he and the still-alive Balclutha are now allies, and the City in the Sea will be taken by them.
"Boiling Point" -- Scharnhorst announces that a railroad has been created that will connect the City with the coalyards. She enlists a former Old Blood, Khamphor Macao--the best mechanic remaining loyal to Scharnhorst--to take the train on her maiden run. His boiler man is Eustace ("Postal Service"), who works efficiently and hard under Macao's insults. Various obstacles are overcome, with the use of Macao's skill as a mechanic and an Old Blood, but as the train approachs the coalyard, he notices that the boiler is about to explode. Blaming Eustace, he insults Eustace more as Eustace kills the armed escort that was to protect the train from the resistance. At the last minute, Eustace grabs Macao and leaps from the train....into the arms of the resistance. The train explodes, and Eustace vouches for Macao to join the resistance.

Xenozoic Tales #14 --
"Another Swarm" -- Lord Drumheller has captured a creature never seen before, a sort of giant granddaddy-longlegs, and secrets it away in the depths of Wassoon. Meanwhile, Hannah spends time with her mother, father, and little sister. Her parents remind her of the family's dependence on the Drumheller clan and plead with her to do nothing to anger them. Hannah tells them she is thinking of the future always, before she is summoned by Drumheller himself. At the same time, Jack is visited in his apartments by Aduwa and three other Old Blood Mechanics, who tell him of Drumheller's captive. The Old Bloods suspect it is a harvestman, the news of which upsets Jack greatly. They plan to rescue the creature the following morning. Hannah arrives at Jack's apartment soon after and gets herself invited to the rescue mission, which will include Jack, Hannah, Balclutha, and the other three Old Bloods. The following day, the rescue party reaches what is indeed a harvestman, only to be greeted also by Drumheller who, with Hannah, had arranged that the Old Bloods come and verify what he had found. Drumheller gloats, but Aduwa warns that the creature is dying and, if it dies, those who come to claim it will bring ruin upon Wassoon. Aduwa reveals that the harvestmen helped support human life while humans remained subterranean for the years after the cataclysm, and that even still the dead harvestmen are given to the Old Bloods to share with their tribes to create machine oils and medicines. Drumheller does not notice in his gloating, however, that Hannah has apparently communicated with the harvestman and then frees it. A small battle follows, but the harvestman escapes into a crevice in which, far below, millions of other harvestmen can be seen. Jack warns Drumheller that the less said about the incident, the better for all. The following day, Aduwa passes a summons from the Grith to Jack, who tell him that he must include Hannah on his return trip to the Great Swamp, and that he must seek out Fessenden. Hannah has, apparently, passed a test.
"The Family Business" -- Vice Terhune and Mikla Van Erskine ("Foul Weather") are reaping the rewards of Jack's absence and the new policies of Scharnhorst. Terhune returns to the City in the Sea with a bumper load of black market animal parts, but is outraged when the price he is offered for them is very low. The marketeer replies that everyone is going out hunting and so supply is very high while demand is very low. Terhune decides he will go see his old friend, Scharnhorst, and get some satisfaction. Along the way he is stopped by a minor official and asked for his sellers license, which of course he does not have. The official tells him that for 10% of his profits, the license will allow Vice to trade in the city. Vice goes from outrage to enraged and goes to Scharnhorst. Upon seeing her, he is ignored by her and bullied by her guards, so Vice finds a life for his family outside of hunting. He and his brother, Screw, lead a party into a village to terrorize it, pillaging it before burning it to the ground, then swears Scharnhorst will look back with envy upon the days when Jack kept the Terhunes under control.

There are several outlets for Xenozoic Tales other than the issues of the magazines listed in these pages. For instance, Epic reprinted the first ten issues of the series under the name Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, and colored Schultz's artwork. There has also been a Cadillacs and Dinosaurs 3-D that reprints a few of the more action-based stories. The first twelve issues of Xenozoic Tales are also available in trade paperback format from Kitchen Sink Press: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Shaman, and Time in Overdrive. These books are sized slightly larger than the original comic issues and thus allow a closer scrutiny of Schultz's craft.

Finally, Topps Comics was given a license to tell stories about the characters and places of the Xenozoic Age that would not affect the main storyline detailed above. Mark Schultz did not write or draw any of the issues of these series (although Linsner, creator and artist of Dawn did the covers for Wild Ones). These series are Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: Blood and Bones, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: Man-eater, and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: Wild Ones. If there is interest, I'll create a page for these adjunct stories.