Sunday Trade: Dark Horse Presents

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MySpace Dark Horse Presents Vol. 1 featuring whole bunches of people

Back in the day Dark Horse ran an anthology comic as a way of featuring their various titles. Of course comic's anthologies are a hard sell nowadays even for the Big Two comic companies. So Dark Horse moved the project online. Specifically to MySpace. And so made it so I almost, ALMOST, would be willing to spend time following a MySpace site. Happily for my sense of self-worth and dignity Dark Horse collects the stories into trade paperback collections...

162 pages, divided between 17 stories. Stand-outs being the scifi adventure Sugarshock! (Joss Whedon story, Fabio Moon art, Dave Stewart colors and Nate Piekos letters), a two-page comic by Peter Bagge about George & Martha Washington, an 8-page color (Guru eFx) comic for Empowered by Adam Warren and another 8-pager featuring The Umbrella Academy's Kraken rescuing the mayor's daughter from a criminal fortune-teller (Gerard Way story, Gabriel Ba art, Dave Stewart colors and Nate Piekos letters). Plus more by Mike Mignola, Steve Niles and others. But honestly this first volume is worth it for the 33 pages plus cover by Moon and Ba...