MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 5 [Paperback]

Jane Espenson (Author), Adam Gallardo (Author), John Arcudi (Author), Cody Goodfellow (Author), Jill Thompson (Author), Guy Davis (Author), Karl Moline (Author), Matt Kindt (Author, Artist), Others (Author)

Book Description

Series: Myspace Dark Horse Presents | Publication Date: August 10, 2010

MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 5 continues to exhibit the greatest comics creators in the biz alongside the newest newbies trying to break in: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 makes another appearance with lately popular vampire Harmony in a tale from one of the series writers, Jane Espenson; Conan brings bloodshed and barbarism as only he can with writer and artist Darick Robertson; another Robert E. Howard character, Solomon Kane, gives Eisner Award-winning artist Guy Davis a chance to show us his take on the Puritan warrior; Dean Motter's Mister X presents a mystery; and Matt Kindt's Giant Man continues his saga. And then we have the newbies: A sweet story with sweet birdies; a scary story with scary birdies; a Jekyll and Hyde meet Sherlock Holmes mystery; a tragic tale that makes you really feel for all those mythical horrors; and a cross dimensional superhero anecdote that will make you laugh.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (August 10, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595825703
• ISBN-13: 978-1595825704
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,447,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars So bad even Conan can't save it!, January 1, 2012

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Sam Quixote - See all my reviews

This review is from: MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 5 (Paperback)

These showcases are always a mixed bag and some anthologies are better than others - unfortunately this volume isn't one of the best ones. There are some fair to middling strips like the Conan the Barbarian short written and drawn by Darick Robertson that is about Conan becoming part of the Mad King of Gaul's marauder army, or Duke Armstrong the World's Greatest Golfer who takes down the Luftwaffe with golf balls fired from Dover.

There are some nice quirky strips like the one about the family who eat one of their children after being driven mad by a new form of hamburger or the Roald Dahl-esque story of a girl who starts eating feathers and turns into a bird.

Overall though the mediocre strips are outweighed by the rather crappy ones that make up the bulk of this book. "MySpace Dark Horse Presents" is a decent series but Vol 5 isn't the best of the series - I'd recommend either Vols 1, 3, or 4 instead for better examples of well written/drawn comics.