Dark Horse Presents #12

Dark Horse Presents Issue #12
Dark Horse Comics
Written by various writers
Art by various artists

Dark Horse has issued another compilation of works ranging from Aliens, Sabertooth Vampire and just about everything in between you can think of. Each story is unique and has no relation to each other and some of the stories are the next chapters in an ongoing series. The Aliens story bounce around a few days of someone who’s going to kill all the aliens, to a discussion of being human. Another story deals with a group of zombie and gore fans trying to get away from someone they scared.

Reading this, I’ll say the art for most of the stories is what each story needed. Whether detailed and clean to less detail, each worked with what was being said. The same can be said for the paneling of each story. Most where basic squares with some of the details spilling over, again this did not interfere with the flow of the story and in some cases helped push it along. Now, we get to the writing. Ok, it’s one of my pet peeves when I read comics but if it’s an ongoing story, don’t you think it would be wise to tell the reader what happened in the previous issue or book? In all but two, this was not done. The only reason why one did it was because it was the first chapter in the story. For most stories, this would have helped me a lot.

I’ve reviewed a DHP before and this did not have any of the same stories from before. So, I was lost for most of what was going on. Thankfully for me, these stories were not as cerebral as some of the ones before. A little more simple and had more character depth, but not much. These are some of the things I like; also if there was something in an issue I missed, give me a heads on it so I can have a better grasp for this new chapter. All in all, this wasn’t too bad. In my humble opinion, if you follow these books, go ahead and get it. If not, leave it on the shelf or get it for the art. I give this 3.5 caps out of 5.