Add to favoritesProject Black Sky was a group of series published by Dark Horse circa 2012-2015 tying together characters rebooted from the public domain, the Comics Greatest World line of the early 90s, and a few new entries. Unfortunately, Dark Horse seemed to just give up on the line as the first phase was winding down and never really resolved the overarching background mystery. Still, there are some fun stories in the batch.
I originally wanted to map this in chronological order, but there was very little intersection between the series like that. And when the line fizzled out, I decided the best approach was to bind it by series.
Captain Midnight volume one
Project Black Sky Secret Files TPB (except for FCBD story)
Dark Horse Presents #18-20 (Captain Midnight #0)
FCBD 2013: Star Wars/Avatar/Captain Midnight – middle story only
Captain Midnight #1-7
Skyman #1-4
Captain Midnight #8-11
Two Past Midnight #1-5
Captain Midnight volume two
Free Comic Book Day 2014: Project Black Sky
Captain Midnight #12-16
Skyman one-shot
Captain Midnight #17-24
The FCBD story is reprinted in the Secret Files TPB, and that’s what I used here.
Ghost
Dark Horse Presents #13-15 (Ghost #0)
Ghost mini series #1-4
Ghost #1-12
X
Dark Horse Presents #19-21 (X #0)
X #1-24
Brain Boy & The Occultist
The Occultist one-shot
The Occultist #1-3
Dark Horse Presents #11-13 (Occultist story, not reprinted in #0 issue)
The Occultist #1-5
Dark Horse Presents #23-25 (Brain Boy #0)
Brain Boy #1-3
Free Comic Book Day 2014: Project Black Sky
Brain Boy: The Men from GESTALT #1-4
Dark Horse Presents #7/200 (Ape-X story)
I know, the title is backwards of the contents, but it flows better. The 2014 FCBD story appears again, this time binding the original issue.
Quis Nisi Nos
Dark Horse Presents #24-26 (Blackout story, no #0 issue)
Blackout #1-4
Barb Wire #1-8
Blackout #1-4 (King Tiger backups)
King Tiger #1-4
This last book is just a catch-all of the last few minis that didn’t really fit anywhere else. Barb Wire and King Tiger didn’t even carry the PBS trade dress. I considered putting all of the short series together (including Brain Boy and the Occultist), but the book was just slightly too big for my preferences.
Thanks for this! I think you and I might be the only people that care about PBS lol.
Once upon a time, I saw a reading order in which 2 Past Midnight was included the Ghost and X titles, since they also appeared in it. You wouldn’t happen to have where they fall in that, would you?
Best I can tell from some old notes, I thought that 2 Past Midnight might fit in either before X #10 or after X #16, but that was probably based on publication order and arc breaks. For Ghost, it probably goes between the mini-series and main series, but that’s just a guess. I don’t think there were any clear indicators for those two characters/series as to where the story fell.