This is a true 3-star review, because I definitely liked this, but didn't necessarily love it. It's really a collection meant for the art, rather than the story, and there's some really amazing examples of both here, though. Archie Goodwin's story was my favorite (and I believe it won the Eisner for best , and Neil Gaiman and Simon Bisley's piece was also a knock-out, and worth reading, and I love the whole concept of the collection. I would certainly read the other volume(s), but it's ultimately non-required reading. Certainly some ground-breaking stuff during the worst period in comics (the mid 1990's).