Cover pencils by Michael Golden. “The Nature of the Beast,” script by Brian Holguin, pencils by Angel Medina, inks by Kevin Conrad; The stolen car Henri Moncrete, a.k.a. ‘The Deuce,’ is driving breaks down on a lonely stretch of highway on his way to kill two small-time thugs; Moncrete stumbles onto the abandoned psycho circus grounds; Spirits begin to turn the circus rides as flashbacks of Moncrete’s gruesome murders occur; Fleeing the circus grounds, Moncrete encounters the Beast Master with the remaining three spirits, looking as a lion and tigers; Paying for his violent past, he is morphed into a helpless cat where he is mauled to near-death; The two thugs chance upon the wounded, near-death cat, and decide to kill it and end its misery.