The Official Vertigo Thread

[Watchman]

I kind of gave up hope and acquired it through special ways recently, looking forward to finally reading it. Still hope for a reprint of some sort in the future, though.

I'm hoping that they do get around to reprinting it eventually. With the specials they've been releasing maybe they will get around to Flex but I'd rather have it in hardcover.

I bought the back issues

It is a pretty neat story but not Morrisons best

This is one of those instances were an opinion is just wrong.

 

[NDX]

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/willingham-sturges-jack-of-fables-end-101103.html

Jack of Fables will end with issue 50

As long as Fables keeps going I'm fine with this. Not as good as it once was.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Finally got around to reading the first volume of American Vampire today. Not really sure if I think it lives quite up to the hype, but it was still pretty solid regardless. Pretty interesting little twist on the vampire mythos, and the design for the American Vampires just looks neat as all hell. Albuquerque's art was awesome, as expected.

I actually thought Snyder's sections were better's than King's, by quite a bit actually. I wouldn't call King's section's bad, but I was far more compelled with what Snyder was doing honestly. I know King left the series, so I'm kind of curious if it'll be able to keep up its fairly impressive trade sales without his name on the cover, but hopefully it'll stay fairly strong even if those standards aren't met again.

 

[Kitsune]

Wrong post

 

[Kitsune]

Wrong thread and double post.. ack

 

[Tron Bonne]

I think you might be looking for the 'I'm Batman' thread, just a guess

 

[Kitsune]

I think you might be looking for the 'I'm Batman' thread, just a guess

Yeah, this thread was right above it and I clicked on it by mistake.

 

[Watchman]

Interview with Chris Roberson on iZombie

iZombie has been a fun book. The real catch for me has been Allred's art.

Anyone else read Unknown Soldier's finale? I thought it was really well done.

 

[Mystirious]

Finally got around to reading the first volume of American Vampire today. Not really sure if I think it lives quite up to the hype, but it was still pretty solid regardless. Pretty interesting little twist on the vampire mythos, and the design for the American Vampires just looks neat as all hell. Albuquerque's art was awesome, as expected.

Yep his art on the comic book is sauce

 

[Tron Bonne]

Interview with Chris Roberson on iZombie

iZombie has been a fun book. The real catch for me has been Allred's art.

Yeah, pretty much how I feel. I like how it's so crazy, and Roberson just keeps piling on the crazy as much as he can.

Anyone else read Unknown Soldier's finale? I thought it was really well done.

I'm going to be reading it in trades.

Yep his art on the comic book is sauce

Yep. I can kind of see why Corp wants to steal him away to do more superhero stuff, but AW is good enough that I don't feel he's being wasted or anything.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Meh, I don't read American Vampire. I'm not a Stephen King fan and I'm kind of sick of vampires at the moment. Even switching Albuquerque over to another Vertigo title would be fine. I just want to see his art on some comics I read again.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Stephen King really doesn't have much to do with it, honestly. He writes a part of the issues and all, but I'm pretty sure he's off the series now, and the main attraction is obviously the Snyder written part I think. I can understand being sick of vampires, they do tend to pop up everywhere nowadays, but even in fad levels, I'm okay with them. I just tend to avoid the stuff that looks sucky (most of it), for the stuff that seems okay (not much of it, but it's there).

I just bought Peter Milligan's Engima off eBay. I paid a little more than I wanted honestly, but I'm getting sick of waiting for Vertigo to reprint (if they ever will...) and have been wanting to read it for awhile.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Is American Vampire just Depression-era vampires? I kind of like that time period, and adding demons to it made The Damned pretty excellent. Combined with Albuquerque art... I think I'll probably pick up AV's first trade after all.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Snyder's story is basically that and King's part is set in the Wild West, though I'm pretty sure his stuff in the first trade was all he did with that.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Do they intersect at all, or is it just two separate stories running concurrently in the same series?

 

[Tron Bonne]

They intersect kind of. The Wild West one is basically the origin of a character that's a major, though somewhat unseen, player in the other story. And it seems like it sets up something that'll probably be a major plot point later on.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Ah. Yeah, I'll just buy the trade whenever it comes out. Hardcover came out in October, so the TPB should be here in, what, like another year or two?

 

[Tron Bonne]

Well, Vertigo is a little better about that kind of stuff, so maybe 9 months?

 

[Mystirious]

Stephen King really doesn't have much to with it, honestly. He writes a part of the issues and all, but I'm pretty sure he's off the series now, and the main attraction is obviously the Snyder written part I think. I can understand being sick of vampires, they do tend to pop up everywhere nowadays, but even in fad levels, I'm okay with them. I just tend to avoid the stuff that looks sucky (most of it), for the stuff that seems okay (not much of it, but it's there).

I just bought Peter Milligan's Engima off eBay. I paid a little more than I wanted honestly, but I'm getting sick of waiting for Vertigo to reprint (if they ever will...) and have been wanting to read it for awhile.

The parts Snyder writes are a lot better than the parts King writes

 

[Tron Bonne]

http://blog.newsarama.com/2010/11/12/fables-goes-superhero-shows-off-some-covers/

Based on upcoming covers showcased today by DC Comics on Vertigo imprint blog Graphic Content, it looks like there’s some interesting things coming up in Bill Willingham’s long-running Fables and its tie-in series, including, er, superheroes? Here’s the cover of #102, the start of a five-part story called “Super Group”

Well, at this point superheroes fit the whole fairy tale paradigm as well as anyone, right?
Covers for Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #1 (isn’t she cold?) and a “preliminary cover” for Jack of Fables #50, the last issue of that series (read more about all that here), follow after the jump. A recent interview with Bill Willingham on all things Fables, by our very own Vaneta Rogers, is right here.

 

[NDX]

Well, that looks like fun.

 

[Tron Bonne]

February DC solicits are up. Vertigo's is all the expected, and a new OGN that I think sounds fairly interesting:

AARON AND AHMED HC
Written by JAY CANTOR
Art and cover by JAMES ROMBERGER
“What causes terrorism?”
After his fiancÈe dies on 9/11, the question plagues Aaron Goodman. It makes him give up his career as a doctor to become an interrogator at Guantanamo Bay. It leads him to meme theory, as he wonders if there could be a cold science behind the conversion of people into suicide bombers. And ultimately, it brings him to Ahmed, a Gitmo prisoner who promises the answers to all of Aaron_s questions, and in the process, he’ll take Aaron from Guantanamo Bay to the jihadist camps in Pakistan, back to Ground Zero in New York City.
But where do Ahmed’s real loyalties lie? From where did that loyalty spring? To answer that, Aaron will have to reexamine everything he believes, and stare down one of the most compelling questions of the 21st century.
MacArthur Prize fellow and novelist Jay Cantor (Krazy Kat, Great Neck) has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, as well as accolades from every major print publication. Now, along with James Romberger (THE BRONX KILL), the acclaimed artist whom comics legend Jim Steranko has described as “fearlessly ambitious,” the two focus their considerable talent, insight and vision in one unforgettable and pressingly relevant graphic novel.
On sale APRIL 6 • 144 pg, FC, $24.99 US • MATURE READERS

 

[Watchman]

Wow, look at all those accolades.

Looks pretty interesting, I'll be picking it up.

 

[NDX]

I might have to pick that up.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Is that Zinda on the cover? Is Fabletown's whole "magic squad" gonna become superheroes?