Dark Horse Presents #1

Dark Horse's award-winning anthology series returns in 2014 with a cover by Geof Darrow that demands a second look — the massive, heavily armored Big Guy looms in the foreground, his enormous fist thrust toward the viewer, while the cheerful little Rusty the Boy Robot floats nearby beside an impossibly intricate tangle of machinery, bullet belts, and smoking guns rendered in Darrow's famously dense, mechanical detail. At 56 pages, this issue packs in the Big Guy and Rusty lead story written, drawn, and inked by Darrow with colors by Dave Stewart, plus newly colored pinups, Brendan McCarthy's Dream Gang, David Mack's Kabuki, and more. It's a genuinely satisfying anthology package that shows exactly why Dark Horse Presents took home both Eisner and Harvey Awards for Best Anthology.