Roachmill Collection, No. 2: The Greatest Stories Ever Told #2

Dark Horse's 1989 trade collection gathers some of the finest Roachmill tales under one cover, and what a cover it is — a sprawling, raucous gathering of grotesque and colorful creatures, humans, and monsters crowded around a glowing campfire, presided over by the hulking, muscular Roachmill himself at center stage. The sheer density of weird, wonderfully rendered characters packed into the image gives an immediate sense of the series' anarchic humor and creature-feature charm. At $6.95, this was a generous sampler of one of Dark Horse's more delightfully offbeat properties.