The last couple years have been quiet for Vertigo, the DC imprint for mature-comics that published many of the most influential, renowned, and strangest comics of the 1990s: “The Sandman”, “Swamp Thing”, “Animal Man”, “Hellblazer”, “The Invisibles”, “Doom Patrol”, “Preacher”, and “Shade, the Changing Man”, among others. For many years Vertigo was the place-to-be for young ambitious comic writers trying to push the medium forward. Image Comics has taken that spot in recent years, with Vertigo receiving several blows; DC taking their Dcu characters and making them Dcu exclusive, DC canceling their flagship title “Hellblazer”, and the founder and executive editor of Vertigo, Karen Berger, stepping down from her role, having overseen the company from 1993-2013.
Right now Vertigo is being held up on just a few comics; their new flagship “Fables” and spinoff “Fairest”, “The Unwritten”, and normally “American Vampire”, but that comic is now on hiatus while Scott Snyder...
Right now Vertigo is being held up on just a few comics; their new flagship “Fables” and spinoff “Fairest”, “The Unwritten”, and normally “American Vampire”, but that comic is now on hiatus while Scott Snyder...
- 7/3/2013
- by Trevor Dobbin
- SoundOnSight
It’s that time again… here are the preview materials for DC Comics releases for May 2012.
As you can see, DC is clearly getting excited about the imminent arrival of The Dark Knight Rises with new movie statues showing Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale, and Tom Hardy, the return of Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham’s Batman Incorporated and the long awaited arrival of Batman: Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, and the Talon appearing in every single Batman book this month… and even All-Star Western?
Plus, with the return of Earth One, we also get the return of Earth Two– and the return of the World’s Finest.
Shall we get into it? Let’s!
As always, spoilers may lurk beyond this point.
Earth Two #1
Written by James Robinson
Art by Nicola Scott and Trevor Scott
Cover by Greg Capullo
1:25 Variant cover by Ivan Reis and...
As you can see, DC is clearly getting excited about the imminent arrival of The Dark Knight Rises with new movie statues showing Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale, and Tom Hardy, the return of Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham’s Batman Incorporated and the long awaited arrival of Batman: Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, and the Talon appearing in every single Batman book this month… and even All-Star Western?
Plus, with the return of Earth One, we also get the return of Earth Two– and the return of the World’s Finest.
Shall we get into it? Let’s!
As always, spoilers may lurk beyond this point.
Earth Two #1
Written by James Robinson
Art by Nicola Scott and Trevor Scott
Cover by Greg Capullo
1:25 Variant cover by Ivan Reis and...
- 2/13/2012
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
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