Well; I'have read Dash Dixon; here are a few impressions;
Dash Dixon is a "college star" (I don't know what it exactly means; but he's sure very good) working for the police. He's sent on mission to protect the Dr. Lorenz, who just happened to discover the formula of eternal life. As Dixon prevents him to be killed, Lorenz, gratefull, proposes to give him the eternal life, and Dixon becomes a super-hero.
The storyline is rather simple (if there is a storyline...), but it is played on a bad tempo and with lots of inconsistencies : you jump from a situation to another without clear connections, the pictures badly follows on, which weakens considerably the suspens, you don't know who does what and why he does it. The texts fields are generally inserted in the wrong places: you can see that the specificities of the comics language aren't under control;
Graphically it's very poor : no comparison with Calkins (not talking about Raymond). The design of all the SF stuff is striking by its lack of imagination, you've got drawing mistakes everywhere (wrong perpectives, impossible movements, disproportionate limbs, etc, etc I even found a right hand on a left arm somewhere).
As a matter of fact, I found the Sky Wizzard series (in the same issues of Miracle Comics) more interesting: but the magazine stopped after only 4 issues. When you read it, you just know why.
In any case, I was very curious to read these Dash Dixon adventures, just for the pleasure of discovery
Now I'll try Don Dickson and the Hidden Empire.
