would for sure be a lesser reading experience in collection
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 27 May 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
A few of these are now being published by Dover, of all people, who have also rescued some other lovely, earlier comics works from neglect: http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-graphic-novels-and-comics-graphic-novels.html
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 28 June 2018 00:55 (five years ago) link
Oh sweet, thanks for the tip.
I have that Puma Blues collection. Or a Puma Blues collection. If it's Dover, I never noticed.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 June 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
If it's the 2015 one with the new ending, that's the Dover one.There's only one Vertigo book in that lineup, really - Mercy was a Touchmark refugee, but probably came along with the Seekers rights when they were dealing with deMatteis.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Thursday, 28 June 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that's the Puma Blues edition I have. It's a nice big hardcover, which is not what I generally associate with Dover.
Delano's World Without End was a proto-Vertigo DC mature readers title.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 June 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
The Charyn/Boucq graphic novels are all essential, esp The Magician's Wife - just a shame the page size is smaller than on the original Catalan translations.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 28 June 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
It ain't been what it once was for many a moon, but still...RIP(?) Vertigo.
Fucken DC, man...
― Howlin' Oates - 'Wang Can't Dang for That (No Can Doodle)' (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
If true, it feels inevitable, but still sad.
And that 25th Anniversary celebration book didn't even materialise!
― Duane Barry, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
My first reaction was, BUT... SEAGUY 3!!
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
I'm sure Morrison will be given carte blanche to do whatever he wants to do under the regular DC banner, but I'm not sure he'd want to given the changes they made to creator contracts a while back.
I mean, there's not much material change, as whatever little wisp of Vertigo currently remaining doesn't in any way resemble what it was back in the day, and since (as far as I can tell) the Vertigo-esque/Vertigo-lite stuff they've been publishing lately (eg Gerard Way's Young Animal stuff, the Sandman-verse titles) are unaffected. Even though the line has been a bloated drunken shut-in for most of its existence, I still mourn for the impact it had in its sleek and jaunty youth.
― Howlin' Oates - 'Wang Can't Dang for That (No Can Doodle)' (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
I think the last Vertigo comic I bought before Seaguy was the third issue of The Invisibles. Inbetween was my “comics, they ARE just for kids” snooty teenage phase.
TBH, as a kid, Vertigo’s biggest draw was the extra boobs in SHADE.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
Been reading <i>The Unwritten</i>, got to Volume 3 and gotdamn this series has gotten good. Issue #17, "The Many Lives of Lizzie Hexam - A Pick-a-Story Book!" is a marvel.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
Vertigo was finally euthanised last week btw
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 02:53 (four years ago) link
I know. I just wanted to enthuse to somebody about this series. Also, I figure sooner or later DC will have another brainfart and dig the name back up, probably within five years.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
just noting for thraed posterity!
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
The Unwritten was great for a while, but IMO it went on a bit too long and got a bit too meta (even for a series whose whole premise is about metafiction), Carey should've wrapped it up a bit earlier. Still, it's definitely the best post-90s Vertigo title that I've read.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 07:27 (four years ago) link
Oh hey look, a new sub-imprint imaginatively titled DC Horror, which is kicking off with...Conjuring tie-in comics. Cool stuff, proud legacies.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-launches-new-horror-imprint-called-dc-horror-for-the-conjuring/
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 April 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
yeesh, enough with the imprints already
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 April 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
Question for the more experienced heads: are horror comics going through a resurgence/bubble these days? Or is it just something that I'm noticing more in the past couple years as I've started to get into them? Yes, I'm aware of some of the history of horror comics throughout the decades, but it feels like I'm seeing them more and more at the store especially in the past year. Or maybe my store is just promoting them more on social media or something. Any thoughts?
― peace, man, Friday, 23 April 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
they are definitely in the midst of a resurgence. Aftershock and Boom have more than 60% of their roster as horror comics and Image and Dark Horse are likely around 40%. Chalk it up to The Walking Dead's long impact maybe?
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 April 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
Interesting, thanks!
― peace, man, Friday, 23 April 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
They're still mostly written by Cullen Bunn, right?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 23 April 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
lol, a lot of them are.https://www.horrordna.com/features/7-most-promising-horror-comics-of-2021
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 April 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
I guess he's supposed to be good at it but, on the basis of his Marvel work, I can't say I'm champing at the bit to find out.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 April 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
i don't care for bunn or kindt, which rules out like 1 of 5 comics these days
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 April 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
Right now it seems like there are a lot of guys -- Kindt, Bunn, Remender, Charles Soule, Tom Taylor, Dennis Hopeless, James Tynion, Donny Cates, I'm sure there are more -- who came up in the 00s and 10s, get big assignments for Marvel and DC, and clearly write better than a certain level of 90s hack (Scott Lodbell or Chuck Dixon, say) but are just... deeply, deeply ordinary.
I'm missing that layer of mid-tier writers who weren't exactly always *good* but were at least consistently weirdly interesting (e.g. Mike Baron, Messener-Loebs, John Ostrander, Ann Nocenti, etc.).
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
No one who's writing dozens of books a year can be consistently weird and interesting, tbf. And I don't blame these guys for taking the paychecks when they can get them
― Nhex, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
Agree, it's more like the ratio of hackwork to "weird and interesting" has gotten worse, from like 4:1 to 4:0.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
last three posts otm
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link