By: Paul Chadwick, Robert Love, David Walker, Michelle Davies, Diego Simone, Thomas Mauer, Neal Adams, Moose, Carla Speed McNeil, Jenn Manley Lee, Bill Mudron, Howard Chaykin, Jesus Aburto, Ken Bruzenak, Michael T. Gilbert, Patrick Alexander, Sanford Greene, Chuck Brown, Tyson Hesse, Steve Dutro, Richard Corben, Clem Robins, David Chelsea
The Story: Another round of Dark Horse’s reborn anthology series.
Review: Honestly, this issue was a real slog to get through. Part of the problem is that there was no singular story that was just electric in this short format. Some of them might mature into great stories, but anthologies are hard. You have to grab the reader right away! If the issue starts with 3 stories that fail to capture the attention, the remaining part of the issue might be doomed.
Another problem with this issue was editorial. By having most of the first half of the issue filled with stories that began in last month’s issue, we got a lot of second chapters. All told, we got a second chapter of Concrete (Paul Chadwick), Blood (Neal Adams), Finder (Carla Speed McNeil), Marked Man (Howard Chaykin), Mr. Monster (Michael T. Gilbert), Murky World (Richard Corben) & Snow Angel (David Chelsea). That is just waaaayyyy too many second chapters. Second chapters don’t have as much novelty, but they also don’t finish stories, so they can be pretty boring. And this issue was pretty drab.
The few new stories in this issue were the high points. Robert Love and David Walker give us “Number 13” which is about a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Patrick Alexander gives us The Wraith which is a silly kinda spoof of an evil Batman and Sanford Greene and Chuck Brown trot out Rotten Apple which had an interesting twist on a zombie overrun world. I really enjoyed all three of these new stories because they were fresh.
Editorial could have helped this issue out a bit by putting the new stories at the front to build some more excitement for the rest of the issue. It also might be good to stagger the ongoing stories so that we don’t get a whole pile of Chapter 2’s again.
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