Archive for the ‘Vertigo’ Category
Or – “The Long And Winding Road…”
The story of The Mates has a great many parallels to the story of a certain band from the 1960’s, yes, but it’s very important to remember that whatever happens, these are not the Beatles, and there is no chance of hearing Yoko Ono howling like an ocelot being fed into a wood chipper…
You can put your earplugs away.
Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics, has announced Alan Moore’s Saga of the Swamp Thing will be collected for the first time in hardcover form, and will arrive in stores on February 11, 2009. This 208 page edition collects issues 20-27 where Alan Moore began as the series writer.
Book 1 begins with the story “The Anatomy Lesson,” where Moore and his collaborators Stephen Bissette and John Totleben, whose imaginative, genre-breaking artwork, set the gothic tone of the journey to come. By building on the character’s foundations in horror, this creative team delivers a haunting origin story that reshapes his mythology with terrifying revelations. When the creature that once believed he was scientist Alec Holland discovers his true nature, he realizes that he is something far less human than he previously believed. And with the resurrected DC villain the Floronic Man attacking the issues of pollution and consumption of natural resources, SWAMP THING’s journey is one of discovery and adventure that will eventually take him across the stars and beyond.
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 1 will set you back $24.99.
Or – “What Happens When I Continue To Fall Behind On Everything?”
What’s the scraping noise? Looks like the raccoon done busted out the heavy weapons, which means it’s time for another look at some of the comics that were too esoteric, too weird, or too numerous to look at individually: RAPID FIRE REVIEWS! BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA! Make sure that the release lever is elevated, and that the debris shield is down, put on your safety goggles and PREpare… to REview!
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It just might be the case if you read between the words and spaces in a very vague JH Williams III post on his blog.
Going through some Promethea files for reasons that will be made clear in a later post and thought I would put of some these into blogs.
For those not familiar with the series – to the Wiki!
Serialized in 32 issues on an irregular schedule from 1999 to 2005, the series explores Alan Moore’s ideas about art and magic, combining elements of superhero action, metaphysical theorizing, and psychedelic revelation, all focused on the adventures of Promethea, a metafictional character that possesses magical power over the real world. Promethea is also notable for wide-ranging experimentation in visual style and storytelling technique on the part of Williams and Moore.
Lately I’ve fallen in love with these omnibus and Absolue Editions being put out by companies. I fell in love with Sandman only after the first Absolute Edition was released, and have been keeping my eyes open for other series to receive the same treatment.
Or – “Wasn’t There Another Reviewer At Major Spoilers? Some Old Dude?”
It’s a little known fact that the month of December contains space-time anomalies that keep you from ever completing anything on time. Add to that a new paradigm at my office, wherein my team load has doubled and my patience halved, a tendency to want to spend time with my friends around the holidays, a scanner that works about half the time and my recent birthday, and I admit it… I may have been neglecting my reviews. Still, t’is nobler in the mind to beg forgiveness than it is to ask permission, so I’m back with a new batch of things you may have already read, but forgot to ask for my opinion on the first time.
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When Hellblazer arrives in stores on December 17th, it will hit two milestones. First the title hits the magic issue #250, which in itself is a great achievement, but the second is a little bit more important as it marks the longest running series for Vertigo.
To celebrate the company is giving readers a five for one deal.
If the idea of a holiday issue of HELLBLAZER strikes you as irreverent and a little perverse, well, that’s exactly why it works so well. Here, the holiday season of everyone’s favorite chain smoking, magical con-man, John Constantine, is disrupted by the darkest depths of humanity and the supernatural.
Take the jump for the list of contributors for the milestone issue.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has announced voice actor Tom Wayland and others will read exceprts from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman during a fundraiser to benifit the organization.
Hosted by the CBLDF and Vertigo, the dramatic reading will be will be held at the Helen Mills Theater in New York City on Saturday, November 8 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available for a $50 donation to the CBLDF. Only 100 tickets are available to this special reading event.
About the stories being performed:
Three Septembers & A January, originally published in THE SANDMAN #31 / Trade #6
The story of Joshua Abraham Norton the first, last and only Emperor of the United States of America that incorporates an explanation for his strange career centering on a challenge between Morpheus and Despair.The Golden Boy, originally published in THE SANDMAN #51-56 / Trade #8
A revival of a 1970s DC character named Prez, it’s the story of the US’s first teenage president that considers how we view our leaders—while they’re in office . . . and once they’re gone.
I’ve only recently read the series thanks to the awsome absolute editions from DC/Vertigo, and love the series. Attending an event like this sounds like a load of fun. If you plan on going, you can reserve your ticket here.
The Unknown Soldier is going to Africa. What’s he doing in Africa? Take the jump for a sneak peek of Unknown Soldier from Vertigo Comics.
War is Over, Now
The story that has preoccupied the pages of Fables for at least the last two years, was the buildup and invasion of the homelands by the Fables, who were sick and tired of The Adversary threatening their way of existence in the Mundy world. After last month’s stunning conclusion to the war, we’re left wondering, “What’s next?”
Or – “Is It A Bad Sign When You Fall In Love With A Comic Book Cover?”
I have a secret admission. I never read Fables in the individual issues, instead leaning on the TPB’s available at the local library to enjoy that series. And, never really having been a huge fan of Jack, I didn’t start reading his individual title until a particularly gorgeous Brian Bolland cover caught my eye. But when I ventured into the store to pick up my books recently, I was awestruck by the cover of this issue and Priscilla’s silent admonition that I needed to buy this book, if only to see the secrets that lay within… Does that make me shallow? Probably… But, in the spirit of ”Can I Just Jump Into A Title Week,” (now in it’s second month!) I decided to take a shot in the dark.
Or – “I Think We Can Be Certain It’s Not Really Final…”
I started to try and write a big clever open, but y’know what?
RACCOON WITH A HEAVY MACHINE GUN!!!!!
How am I s’pose to top that?
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Not to be left out, Vertigo had several announcements at its panel on Friday.
Vertigo has annouced that both Young Liars #1 and House of Mystery #1 have sold out at the distributor level, prompting the company to go back to press. But instead of two reprints, Vertigo is combinging both issues into a 48-page flip book featuring the complete issues. Best of all, Vertigo is keeping the price point at $2.99. Smart move Vertigo!
“We’re thrilled to see that two of our new monthly series are in such demand,” says Karen Berger, Senior VP – Executive Editor, Vertigo. “Now you can get the first issue of two Vertigo staples for the price of one: the gritty crime fiction of YOUNG LIARS and HOUSE OF MYSTERY’s modern horror.”
The two-for-one issue arrives August 6, 2008.
“If they pull a knife, you pull a gun.”
Vertigo has known for some time that it has something special with Bill Willingham’s Fables. And I’m sure Bill Willingham knows he has something special with Fables too. And even though some of the story arcs these past couple of years have been hit and miss at times, Willingham continues to deliver interesting tales of the struggles between the fables and the villains of the home world, and this issue is no exception.
We last saw Madame Xanadu in her brief appearance in DC’s Countdown, but coming in June, readers can learn more about her many adventures as Matt Wagner (Grendel and Mage) and Amy Reeder Hadley team up to bring Madame Xanadu to Vertigo Comics.
MADAME XANADU is a gothic love story between the mysterious Madame Xanadu and the Phantom Stranger. Their fraught, unconventional affair first blossoms in the final days of Camelot and develops over centuries, in the court of Kublai Khan, on the ships of Marco Polo, in London’s notorious Whitechapel district and on the streets of Greenwich Village.
The first issues arrives June 25, 2008, and will sell for $2.99.
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