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Decade: A Dark Horse Short Story Collection
Frank Miller, Matt Wagner, Mark Verheiden, Johji Manabe, and Paul Chadwick are just several reasons to pick up this short-story anthology. Predator, Concrete, Nexus, Aliens, Sin City, and The Mask are several more. Over its ten-year history, Dark Horse Comics has earned a reputation for publishing the most diverse line of quality comics. That decade of experience is all brought to bear in this collection of original short stories. If you're a fan of adventure or horror, of crime or fantasy, of science fiction or the supernatural, there is guaranteed to be something you'll love within these 112 pages!
112 pages, Paperback
First published April 15, 1997
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Randy Stradley
396 books36 followers"Nearly thirty years of writing and editing comics, and this is what I have to show for it."
—Randy Stradley, pointing to this biography.
More to come, folks!
—Randy Stradley, pointing to this biography.
More to come, folks!
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May 8, 2023
Those of us who were reading comics in the 1980’s may have a greater appreciation for Dark Horse, an independent comics publisher from Oregon and the brainchild of comics shop owner Mike Richardson.
They were trailblazers for a variety of reasons:
1) Creators they published retained ownership of their characters and stories.
2) They introduced comics fandom to new creators who went on to greater recognition like Paul Chadwick, Mark Verheiden, Mike Baron, Steve Rude, John Arcudi, Doug Mahnke, Matt Wagner and others.
3) They published innovative ground-breaking work from known creators like Frank Miller, for one example (Sin City).
4) They showed other publishers who struggled with licensed properties that these were a lucrative market especially when quality creators are assigned and pay attention to details, for example the great stories they published from the realms of Star Wars, Aliens, Predator, The Terminator, and others. I don’t think we would see such a plethora of good titles based on licensed properties without the breakthrough contributions of Dark Horse in the 1980’s.
5) Unlike Image, who also sprang forth as a creator-owned publisher in the ’80’s, they introduced readers to the various wonderful genres outside of superhero and team books.
6) With the monthly DARK HORSE PRESENTS anthology they created an economical way to introduce readers to various titles. Someday, I hope to run into Mike Richardson at a comics convention so I can thank him in person.
The DECADE trade paperback is a celebration of Dark Horse, and features thirteen of their popular titles in original short stories. Wisely, the contents page includes a short synopsis of each title so that readers can jump right in, understand and enjoy the story, and get a feel for the atmosphere they created. Of course, some are better than others but overall this is a solid set.
Here are the characters and titles featured here: Concrete, Black Cross, Trekker, Godzilla, Aliens, Nexus, The Mask, Martha Washington, Predator, Grendel, Sin City, Exon Depot (early manga), and Ghost. FOUR AND ONE-HALF STARS.
They were trailblazers for a variety of reasons:
1) Creators they published retained ownership of their characters and stories.
2) They introduced comics fandom to new creators who went on to greater recognition like Paul Chadwick, Mark Verheiden, Mike Baron, Steve Rude, John Arcudi, Doug Mahnke, Matt Wagner and others.
3) They published innovative ground-breaking work from known creators like Frank Miller, for one example (Sin City).
4) They showed other publishers who struggled with licensed properties that these were a lucrative market especially when quality creators are assigned and pay attention to details, for example the great stories they published from the realms of Star Wars, Aliens, Predator, The Terminator, and others. I don’t think we would see such a plethora of good titles based on licensed properties without the breakthrough contributions of Dark Horse in the 1980’s.
5) Unlike Image, who also sprang forth as a creator-owned publisher in the ’80’s, they introduced readers to the various wonderful genres outside of superhero and team books.
6) With the monthly DARK HORSE PRESENTS anthology they created an economical way to introduce readers to various titles. Someday, I hope to run into Mike Richardson at a comics convention so I can thank him in person.
The DECADE trade paperback is a celebration of Dark Horse, and features thirteen of their popular titles in original short stories. Wisely, the contents page includes a short synopsis of each title so that readers can jump right in, understand and enjoy the story, and get a feel for the atmosphere they created. Of course, some are better than others but overall this is a solid set.
Here are the characters and titles featured here: Concrete, Black Cross, Trekker, Godzilla, Aliens, Nexus, The Mask, Martha Washington, Predator, Grendel, Sin City, Exon Depot (early manga), and Ghost. FOUR AND ONE-HALF STARS.
May 26, 2025
Some of Dark Horse's top creators return to celebrate a decade of short stories over there. It's kind of amazing how many of these they no longer have the rights to after publishing their comics for over 20 years. There are comics featuring Concrete, Black Cross, Trekker, Godzilla, Aliens, Nexus, The Mask, Martha Washington, Predator, Grendel, Sin City and Ghost. With creators involved like Frank Miller, Dave Gibbons, Matt Wagner, Doug Mahnke, Steve Rude, Paul Chadwick and more. It's good stuff if you can still find it.
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May 16, 2010Found this forgotten purchase while cleaning out storage unit.
January 8, 2017
Most important to me for including the "explanation" for a crucial scene in Predator II.
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