Tag Archive | "Vertigo"

Strengthen the bookshelves – Absolute Sandman Volume 5…..

Saturday, March 12, 2011

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It appears DC have had a look at the accounts and realised that the dip in profits in 2010 may have had something to do with a complete lack of the very profitable high price point Absolute Sandman Volume for the first year since 2006. Absolute Sandman Volumes 1-4 appeared, one a year, from 2006-2009. [...]

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Welcome, Cereal Convention

Thursday, October 14, 2010

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The first three volumes of the new editions of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman go on the racks today, nice new trade paperbacks (using the much restored artowrk and colouring from the Absolute Sandman editions) of Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll’s House and the short story collection Dream Country. Glancing inside Doll’s House I’m reminded of a [...]

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Forbidden DC to be published….

Saturday, July 24, 2010

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Earlier this week we got the news that DC/Vertigo were looking back through the archives at material they’d passed on for one reason or another and have had a change of heart. First up is Warren Ellis’ Hellblazer story “Shoot”, which was spiked after the Columbine shootings and never published. Over at Warren Ellis’ blog he [...]

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Great Comics That Never Happened – Hannah Zatanna

Sunday, June 13, 2010

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Oh, perfectly capturing that inbetweeny nature of DC and Vertigo’s joint custody of Zatanna….. Another great mashup from Chris Sim and artist Rusty Shackles (Via Comics Alliance)

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The Nobody fan short film

Monday, May 17, 2010

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Robot 6 points us to the pretty cool short film by Josh McCaw and Ali Borghi, based on events in Jeff Lemire’s The Nobody (which just came out a few days ago in paperback from DC’s Vertigo imprint). Just like Jeff’s bandage-wrapped stranger in a small town it has satisfying echoes of the early film [...]

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The Losers – always a big budget Hollywood feature, even before the film.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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The Losers Volume 1 & 2 Collection By Andy Diggle and Jock DC Vertigo With The Losers movie opening very soon Vertigo have re-released the first two volumes of Andy Diggle and Jock’s series in one volume, collecting the first 12 issues and proving, once more that The Losers was a Hollywood blockbuster even before [...]

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Steve Bissette’s Forgotten Comic Wars concludes

Sunday, April 4, 2010

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(Steve Bissette and his last Swamp Thing cover for DC, Feb 1987: note the “suggested for mature readers” label) Steve Bissette’s most enjoyable and informative series of posts about the comic ratings troubles of the 80s concludes over at his blog with “How Angry Freelancers Made It Possible for A New Mainstream Comics Era (Including [...]

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Scalped – bloody, brutal and brilliant

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Scalped issue 34 by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra DC/Vertigo Scalped is the fantastic creator owned series written by Jason Aaron with the majority of the artwork drawn by R.M. Guéra.  The book is based mainly around the exploits of an undercover FBI agent operating within a Native American reservation. This issue is the final [...]

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Steve Bissette’s forgotten comic wars

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Over on his blog Steven Bissette, artist on Swamp Thing, Tyrant and publisher of Taboo is currently chronicling the trials and tribulations of the comic industry circa 1986. It’s fascinating stuff from an era when a lot of important things were just beginning to develop across the industry. Bissette’s subtitle to the series of posts [...]

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The Unwritten – it’s all about the story, all about the fictions

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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The Unwritten Volume 1: Tommy Taylor And The Bogus Identity by Mike Carey and Peter Gross Vertigo / Titan Books This reads very much like Vertigo books of old, with all the high fantasy elements you used to get with Gaiman’s Sandman. And so it should, since it reunites Carey and Gross, who previously shared [...]

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Best new cover for a loooong time

Saturday, February 13, 2010

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The new Vertigo series I, Zombie by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred has not one but two great covers. Although no matter how good Allred’s cover is, the Darwyn Cooke variant just blows it away: Described as “a smart, witty detective series with a mix of urban fantasy and romantic dramedy … told from female [...]

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Losers poster…..

Sunday, February 7, 2010

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This recently released movie poster for the new Losers movie does seem to point out one fundamental flaw in transferring comics to movies. No matter how good the movies are, sometimes you just can’t do it as well as the vision of an artist. It’s a great poster, iconic, striking, everything it needs to be. [...]

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Peter Bagge’s Other Lives

Sunday, November 22, 2009

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Fresh images from the Vertigo blog of Peter Bagge’s 2010 Original Graphic Novel; Other Lives. It does look good – don’t you think?

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