Product Description

This collection of the first six issues of MySpace Presents Dark Horse include Joss Whedon's complete rock 'n' roll saga Sugarshock, a fun-filled story about a quirky girl named Dandelion and her love of music (and hatred of Vikings); Mike Mignola's haunting holiday tale, lushly illustrated by Guy Davis, "The Christmas Spirit"; a lost Umbrella Academy chapter written by Gerard Way about our favorite curmudgeon, The Kraken; and a four-part story dedicated to Eric Powell's The Goon. This volume also includes a wide range of established comics talent, and stories from newcomers who saw their professional debut in MySpace Presents Dark Horse.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #329164 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

Mental in the best possible way
I loved reading "2000AD" when I was a teenager - it had an amazing and potent mix of great strips: Judge Dredd, Slaine, ABC Warriors, Nikolai Dante, Rogue Trooper, Vector 13, Strontium Dog, Durham Red. Reading "MySpace Dark Horse Presents" reminded me of those days where there were so many excellent and varied shorts on display.

Joss Whedon presents a whacky strip about a wannabe rock band called "SugarShock!" that combines light comedy, music, and sci-fi Dan Dare style heroics. Peter Bagge chips in with a couple of pages about George Washington and his wife, while the mighty Mike Mignola offers up "The Christmas Spirit", a great little seasonal short in the supernatural vein of his Hellboy books. I've never read "The Goon" before but the strips here are the longest in the book and parody "The Maltese Falcon" by having the Goon and his sidekick look for their mate's pecker.

Some of the best strips here are by artists and writers I've never heard of. The intriguingly cyberpunk comic "Gear School" by Adam Gallardo was good, about teenagers with robot/motorbike style suits, while Ron Marz and Luke Ross provide a generic yet atmospheric story of "Samurai" avenging his lost love against the evil men who took her. "Tricks of the Trade" by Katie Cook and Brodie H Brockie was excellent, a very macabre tale of a runaway girl and a strange magician who recruits her to be part of his act. "Fear Agent" by Rick Remender was a frenetic and mental run through of action comics set in the future and the cracking pace and ultra imaginative scenes evoked the best of "Transmetropolitan" crossed with "Judge Dredd". Definitely a comic to look into further. I'm a big fan of Rick Geary's so Haden Blackman's strip "The Axeman" was a treat, telling as it did the stories of some of the most evil and disturbed serial killers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Out of many, many strips in this volume, I only disliked a couple. It's a fantastic start to a series I hope will continue as long as the work is as strong as this. Anyone looking for a fun and diverting couple of hours could do a lot worse than this book. A very cool project with some amazing talent on show.