Short Review: If you're reading this review, you'll really like something in this.
Like Dark Horse Presents, Caliber Press's showhouse is celebrating a numerical anniversary by presenting some of its best known contributors in a longer issue than normal (66 pages).
An episode in the middle of a longer story, this is a pseudo - Sherlock Holmes affair, either set in an alternate Britain where Victorian values were interrupted only by the onset of punk, or in our reality, with punks clustering around Baker street in London. I don't know enough about London to tell, but it doesn't matter, as the story is well told, and the art is attractive. It's about time someone tried to write some decent Sherlock stories, after all
Story and Art by Bernie Mireault
A short story about a chair in a tip, and the race to get it. It's all exaggerations and random cuts, and I can't recommend it at all.
David Mack has mastered the balance of hot babe art with interesting imagery and great prose that can sell a comic, and get it published by 'serious' writers like Caliber. This is more of the same and I like it.
Interesting, but not very.
Story by James Pruett
Great imagery and prose, but the art bites.
Story by Alan Moore
The song is as wonderful as Alan Moore's tend to be, bearing some thematic resemblance to "This Vicious Cabaret" from V for Vendetta, but the Dave Gibbons art looks nothing like his previous, although still very good.
Interesting in its own way, but he should stick to the day job. The only image done to order looks fairly good, but he doesn't specify what time it took to draw.
Story by Larry Hancock
Neither the art nor the story bear up to any serious perusal. First part of generic horror-story.
Story by Bradley Walton
What Lobo should have been like. "That's some grimace y'got there, pal."
The comics equivalent of a Suede song. That's London Suede, of course.
Story by Mark Ricketts
A text piece inspired by the Moebius cover, this is an interesting sci-fi tale with a moral. Think Ray Bradbury, and you won't be far wrong.
Story by Lisa Moore & Charles Moore
Another adventure with Dominique, this time she sees what her mother's being working at, and which side of the law it is this time. Entertaining.
Fanboy Vs. AlterniFanboy. Like anyone reading this doesn't know what that's like.
Story and Art by Brian Bolland
The difficult part about writing a perpetually surprised character is finding a stream of things for him to be surprised about. Brian Bolland does well here.