Posted 10/12/12 4:00 pm EST by Alex Zalben in Comic Books, DC Comics, New York Comic Con, Vertigo Comics
After a relatively slow period for DC’s boutique arm Vertigo, the imprint had some big announcements at New York Comic Con, as well as more talk about some of their upcoming projects. On the panel were writers Bill Willingham (Fables), Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth), Brian Azzarello (Spaceman), and Scott Snyder (American Vampire), artists R.M. Guera (Scalped, Django Unchained) and Ryan Kelley (Saucer Country), all moderated by Executive Editor Karen Berger. Read More...
Posted 10/12/12 2:30 pm EST by Alex Zalben in Comic Books, DC Comics, New York Comic Con, Vertigo Comics
As just announced at Vertigo's New York Comic Con panel, Jeff Lemire is back! Okay, fine, he never left... But as the writer/artist is finishing up his run on the critically acclaimed Sweet Tooth, he's getting ready to launch a new, twelve part mini-series from Vertigo in 2013. The book - 'Trillium' - defies our simple description, so here's the logline from Vertigo: Read More...
Posted 10/12/12 2:30 pm EST by Alex Zalben in Comic Books, DC Comics, New York Comic Con, Vertigo Comics
As promised on Thursday, we had one more little surprise from writer Scott Snyder after chatting Batman and Superman: As just announced at New York Comic Con, the prolific creator is launching a brand new miniseries through Vertigo with artist Sean Murphy titled “The Wake.” Read More...
Posted 8/8/12 3:55 pm EST by Valerie Gallaher in Graphic Novels, Vertigo Comics
White supremacists, a tense and divisive election season, right-wing talking heads, and sudden acts of violence: this the jumble of elements we have witnessed in the most recent news-cycle. And these are plot points for "Right State," a new Vertigo graphic novel from Mat Johnson ("Incognegro," "Dark Rain") and Andrea Mutti (soon-to-be artist on "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo").
I read all of "Right State" the night before the tragic mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin -- and boy did the book give me some (eerie) perspective on that news story! Like "Right State's" protagonist Ted Akers, gunman Wade Michael Page found himself immersed in the shadowy world of white supremacist groups. While the similarities between the two men end there -- and the story takes place in a future timeline --"Right State" captures perfectly the zeitgeist of the times Americans live in, with some conservative pundits and politicians riling up citizens to turn on those who are "different" and blaming them for the nation's problems. Read More...
Posted 7/13/12 12:19 pm EST by Alex Zalben in Comic Books, DC Comics, San Diego Comic-Con, SDCC, Vertigo Comics
If there's a sound of someone winning San Diego Comic-Con, it could probably have been heard at Vertigo Comics panel, where the publisher shocked the audience with the announcement of a brand new Sandman mini-series by writer Neil Gaiman, and artist J.H. Williams, III. Oh, and some other stuff happened, we guess, so here's the full recap.
On the mega-sized were Vertigo Editor Karen Berger, writer/artists Jeff Lemire and Mike Allred, artists Rafael Albequerque, Dustin Nguyen, and Mark Buckingham, writers Dan Abnett, Bill Willingham, and Scott Snyder, and Editors Shelly Bond and Will Cunningham. Berger kicked things off by talking about American Vampire - and as mentioned by writer Scott Snyder earlier on in the day, this is the halfway point of the series, with some big changes coming up. Read More...
Posted 5/7/12 4:00 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Comic Books, DC Comics, Vertigo Comics
In a blog post on the Vertigo Comics website, Jeff Lemire announced that Sweet Tooth #40 would the series' last issue, ending a run of what has been a truly wonderful and original story.
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Posted 3/9/12 11:30 am EST by Alex Zalben in Comic Books, Vertigo Comics
This upcoming Wednesday, comic book writer novelist, and all around good guy Paul Cornell launches Saucer Country a brand new series through Veritigo, with artist Ryan Kelly. The subject? Alien abductions, mythology, and how they may throw a little crux in one Governor’s bid for the Presidency. It’s a trippy, tricky book where nothing - and everything - is what it seems. To find out more, we chatted with Cornell about his take on those little green men... And found out that they’re actually grey. Oops: Read More...
Posted 3/8/12 12:00 pm EST by Alex Zalben in Comic Books, Vertigo Comics
The most shocking thing about Fairest #1, the new spin-off title from Vertigo’s hit Fables, is that no women at all appear in the book until Page 13. And at that, there’s only one line the entire issue from a member of the fairer sex. Given that this is supposed to be a spotlight book, showcasing the ladies of the Fables Universe? That’s downright weird.
That’s not to say that it isn’t also a rollicking good adventure tale, filled with all the humor, creativity, and stellar art Fables fans have come to expect from Bill Willingham’s mini-empire of fair tale based comics. The book looks superb, with some of the best art from the already not-too-shabby Phil Jiminez we’ve seen in years. Credit to the whole team, including Andy Lanning on inks, and Andrew Dalhouse on colors… From the ruins of a major Homeland city on Page 2, to the reveal on Page 13, Fairest is gobsmackingly beautiful. Read More...
Posted 3/7/12 3:30 pm EST by Alex Zalben in Comic Books, Vertigo Comics
Are you ready for the next great Fables spin-off from mastermind Bill Willingham? Well get ready, because where Fables itself focuses on what happens when fairy tale characters live together and start being real; Jack of Fables gave us the debauched solo adventures of everyone’s favorite titular cad; and the various Cinderella series posited that everyone’s favorite shoe obsessed character was actually the world’s greatest secret agent... Fairest, which launches today from Vertigo Comics, focuses instead on the real housewives (and, er, Snow Queens) of Fabletown. Read More...
Posted 1/13/12 4:00 pm EST by StephenBrown in Vertigo Comics
Vertigo’s Graphic Content blog announced this morning the full creative team and scheduled November release date for the graphic novel adaptation of late author Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Scottish crime novelist Denise Mina, author of the Vertigo Crime GN A Sickness in the Family, has been confirmed for the adaptation. Joining her on art will be longtime Hellblazer artist Leonardo Manco, as well as Andrea Mutti, who first worked with Vertigo on the Vertigo Crime GN The Executor before doing a stint on the recently concluded DMZ.
Covers for the series will be provided by regular Vertigo Crime cover artist Lee Bermejo, whose Batman: Noel GN is a New York Times bestseller. Read More...
Posted 11/23/11 4:00 pm EST by Charles Webb in Best Of, Boom Studios, Comic Books, Dark Horse, DC Comics, IDW, Image Comics, Marvel, Vertigo Comics
Looking through our picks for the best comics of 2011, I've been trying to divine some kind of theme among the Geek staff's choices. Without really going out of our way to do so, the list of books we all gravitated towards ran the gamut from creator-owned to long-running franchises, from big, superhero fiction in revamped universes, to quietly personal dramas about relationships.
What I'm saying is, I guess: keep making things different, diverse, and strange in 2011 comic books, and we'll keep reading you.
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Posted 10/21/11 12:47 pm EST by MTV Geek in New York Comic Con, Vertigo Comics
By Elizabeth Keenan
If you're eager to find out what edgy new comics and graphic novels DC's Vertigo imprint has coming out over the next year, the Vertigo Visions panel at New York Comic Con offered a full slate of talent and a spate of announcements, including digital titles going day and date.
Berger first discussed the already-announced end to Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra’s critically acclaimed Scalped, describing it as “on a short list of the best things we’ve done.” Aaron was on hand to describe the final arc of the series, in which “quite a few people meet their demise.”
“Things that have been brewing for five years are coming to an end,” he said. The final arc, “Trail’s End,” will conclude next spring.
Next up, Berger announced A.D.D., a new series by Douglas Rushkoff, starting in January, 2012. Rushkoff described the project as answering a hypothetical question. Read More...
Posted 10/11/11 9:00 am EST by MTV Geek in Vertigo Comics
Vertigo is announcing a new ongoing comic book today, Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child. Slated to start February 2012, the series tells the story of Dominique Laveau, outcast and half-breed heir to the Voodoo Queenship of New Orleans:
Lingering on the threshold between history and legend, the home of Mardi Gras and the birthplace of Jazz, New Orleans is also known as the most haunted city in America: a town of centuries-old ghosts and new spirits of those drowned by Katrina; where Loup Garous, Vampires and Voodoo Spirits make their home. Ruling over all of this are the powerful Voodoo Queens, maintaining a delicate balance between the mortal and supernatural worlds, and whose influence stretches into politics, business and crime. But today, everything has changed. The Queen has been murdered and Tulane grad student Dominique Laveau is the number one suspect.
Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child is written by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, former Editor-in-Chief of the Hip-Hop magazine The Source, and illustrated by comic book legend Denys Cowan, one of the founding members of Milestone Media and best-known for his work on Static Shock and The Question. Hinds and Cowan have worked with each other before, collaborating on the short story “Case 21” in the Vertigo comic book anthology Strange Adventures earlier this year, and the short story “Blink” published in this month’s Vertigo comic book anthology The Unexpected. Read More...
Posted 5/25/11 2:18 pm EST by Valerie Gallaher in Archaia, Comic Books, Dark Horse, DC Comics, Dynamite, Image Comics, Marvel, Vertigo Comics
The name of this new weekly column is "New Comics I'm Excited About!" because I just don't blog about comic books...I'm also a fan and go to the comic shop every week to pick up my stack.
Let's look at my pull list for this week...
PICK OF THE WEEK:
I chose Strange Adventures from Vertigo as my pick of the week not just because of the content, but the fact that I'd really like to see more anthologies like this and Dark Horse Presents on the stands. These books often serve not only as forums for familiar creators to let loose and try something new (Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's "Spaceman"), but edgy indie talents who deserve more exposure to get their work out there (Kevin Colden's “Postmodern Prometheus”). Books like Strange Adventures are the cauldrons from which we might all get those exciting new concepts, characters and talent fans are always requesting instead of the "same-old, same-old" -- too bad it's only a one-shot, and here's hoping DC puts out more of the same in the future. Read More...
Posted 3/29/11 4:20 pm EST by Charles Webb in C2E2, Comic Books, DC Comics, Interviews, Vertigo Comics
Writer Scott Snyder has been having a pretty good year at DC and Vertigo. As the co-creator of American Vampire he’s been getting a lot of attention for his spin on the evolution of the vampire mythos, and he’s currently at the helm of DC’s second-longest running title, scripting the adventures of Dick Grayson in Detective Comics.
Over at Detective Snyder has set up the goal of trying to give the Gotham underworld a rethink with Dick under the cowl. To Snyder’s mind, Batman’s villains are reflections of his psyche—Joker, Two-Face, and the Riddler are all somehow mirror reflections of who Bruce is as a character. “We’re focusing on a story about the way that Gotham, now that Dick Grayson is Batman, is sort of changing itself to be a better enemy for him. It’s almost like anyone who takes on the cowl Gotham will throw their worst nightmares at them.” This current storyline is in its 4th part, with the fifth and final issue of the arc occurring in issue #875 which hits shelves on March 30th.
Issue 875 also has a standalone story by Snyder with art by Francesco Francavilla (Scalped, Fear Agent, Black Beetle) featuring the return on Jim Gordon’s son, James. Apparently the character hasn’t been seen in comics since he was a small child and Snyder hints that his return will have ramifications for the Detective cast, with everyone—from the Commissioner, to Barbara, to Dick—harboring an intense fear of the now-adult James. Read More...