Vertigo junkies will be happy to know a group of the DC imprint’s creators have joined together — not unlike Voltron — on a blog. Standard Attrition is the new blogging home for Jason Aaron, Brian Wood, G. Willow Wilson, Jock, Cliff Chiang, David Lapham and Brian Azzarello. So far, the site has mostly just…
[[[Fables]]] is one of the big successes of the current version of the Vertigo line, where every book has a Hollywood-style high concept: all males on Earth are killed – except one!; New York’s mayor can talk to machines!; Refugee fairytales live in the modern world! And, in another Hollywood-esque twist, Fables even has a…
As fans of Brian K. Vaughan drool in anticipation of the purported awesomeness of his movie spec script for Roundtable, Vertigo offered a last, wistful look at BKV’s Y: The Last Man by releasing the 10th and final collection, Whys and Wherefores. It didn’t get much attention, in no small part because of the outpouring…
Maybe it’s just the swanky fedora and cloak, but The Phantom Stranger has always been a favorite character of mine. I mention this only because it was one of the primary reasons I was excited about last week’s release of Madame Xanadu #1, the first issue of new Vertigo miniseries that promises to look at…
Fresh off another successful Grendel run and two excellent Batman miniseries ([[[Monster Men and Mad Monk]]]), Matt Wagner is switching gears so hard he may have just shredded the transmission. A revival of the occult heroine Madame Xanadu? Really? Sure enough. Wagner is writing the Vertigo series, the first issue of which debuted this week….
When you attend some of these publisher panels, you’re usually shown a few slides and given a brief description of upcoming titles — kind of like someone reading the Diamond Previews catalog out loud. So, instead of just parroting the entire affair, I’ve assembled an account of what you need to know about Friday’s "Vertigo: Welcome…
In a bit of a strange coincidence, Vertigo has two new collections out this week that both prominently feature futuristic science and genetic manipulation. The books couldn’t be more different, though, with The Un-Men ($9.99) shining a freaky spotlight on some minor Swamp Thing characters and Faker ($14.99) taking a more serious look at the…
The list of novelists jumping into the graphic novel game continues to grow, and Vertigo is leading the recruiting effort. Jonathan Ames’ comics debut, The Alcoholic, is due out this fall from DC’s imprint, and now comes word that Jon Evans is scripting a Vertigo book titled The Executor. Evans (also a well known journalist)…
I covered a handful of new series debuting this week in my Weekly Haul column earlier this week, but one new series slipped past. Thanks to the kind folks at DC then for sending over the first issue of David Lapham’s Young Liars, one of the more puzzling series to come around lately. It’s not…
The news of Mike Carey writing a fantasy/horror comic set in Japan sounded too good to be true, and when Crossing Midnight debuted more than a year ago it struggled to live up to that promise. Carey created a deep and supernatural world to backdrop his story of mystery: Two twins, Toshi and Kai, were…
This graphic novel is pretty good just on its own terms, but it’s an excellent object lesson. If you know of anyone who thinks that comics are essentially limited in scope to brightly-clad folks punching each other with great vigor, this will help to expand their horizons. It’s the story of Laika, a Russian dog…
DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint announced a few new projects at their “Looking Over the Edge” panel in San Diego last week. First up: next month’s Un-Men, the old Swamp Thing foes and stars of the American Freaks mini-series. The monthly book, written by John Whalen and pencils by Mike Hawthorne, revolves around how the Un-Men…
