Look, if I wanna remember it with girls riding dinosaurs, I'm gonna remember it with girls riding dinosaurs.

I've mentioned this one before on the strength of its Bill Sienkiewicz cover, which is so great but also possibly indicative of this company's problem. From 1995, Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe #2, "A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma" Written by Lawrence Watt-Evans, pencils by Mike Harris and James Callahan (page 3), inks by Aaron McClellan and Frank Percy.

This was arguably the flagship of new company Tekno-Comix, and despite having concepts from Gene, additional characters and such from his wife Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, additional additional work from D.C. Fontana and Ron Fortier, as well as a scientific advisor; it is largely unreadable. Having the first issue next to me might help, but only slightly: scientist Alexander Grange has been recovered by Penaltra, an operative for something like the Federation. Wait, their ship's name was the Deliverance? Go to warp nine, I hear banjos...Grange doesn't understand why the planet and the people are completely different from how he remembers them; and as he and Penaltra enter a simulation of the world, they find an inexplicable woman riding a dinosaur. Penaltra thinks Grange is imagining her, possibly not taking things seriously; but after a restart she's still there. The locals describe her as from a nearby tribe of wanderers, but they recognize her more than Grange: no one had been doing research like his studies of the "Old Ones" in decades.

Grange and Penaltra then review a massive info-dump, wherein billions of alien refugees from the Andromeda galaxy settled on the planet Malay, which was then going to be hit by an asteroid. While a missile was able to destroy the asteroid, the explosion also took out the hyperspace beacon, cutting the planet off. Both of them are starting to realize the planet might not look like they were expecting, but while Penaltra discusses it with her crew, the weirdly-pupilless Grange steals a shuttle, intent on finding answers... 

There's an old joke, how do you make a million in comics? Start with ten million! Somebody put some money into Tekno: they also had Leonard Nimoy's Primortals, a couple books from Neil Gaiman concepts, and Isaac Asimov's I-Bots had Howard Chaykin, Steven Grant, and George Perez working on it! I haven't read those, but I liked Mike Danger even if they totally backpedaled off of the original hook for the second series. It definitely feels like they put all of their money and effort into certain aspects, and completely whiffed on the others. Still, I hope this original cover is on a wall somewhere; it deserves to be seen.