Comic Report: "Dark Horse Presents", "Noir"

Dark Horse Presents, a periodic comic anthology, re-arose a few months back. It's good stuff. It was good before, and it's good now. There's a variety, so it's not all good. You and I probably wouldn't agree on which parts were the good ones. But that's OK.

I also picked up Noir, a collection of short Dark Horse crime comics. Many of these are short stories based on series that I liked. There are some good artists and writers here. Yet I didn't much care for this collection. Maybe the folks who work on those longer stories weren't comfortable with just a few pages? I dunno.