While Dark Horse’s collections of EC comic books in a prestige format form an admirable historical project, the anthology of Modern Love stories exposes the company’s internal division between commercial viability and aesthetic quality. Compiling the complete eight issue run, this collection begins with a series of dull tales, filled with stereotypes which, despite plane crashes, cave-ins and bear attacks, a lack of romantic tension. While EC were outraging parents through horror comics and...
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