A Fistful Of Bourdain: Video From The SDCC 2012 Vertigo Comics Get Jiro Panel
Most of the SDCC 2012 panels we covered, we did thusly: I sat with a fat boy notebook and a pen, furiously taking notes and grabbing quotes in between taking photos of things that panelists would...
View ArticleRake At The Gates Of Hell: DC Cancels Hellblazer
I studied journalism when I was in college in the late 1980s / early 1990s, and one of the things I learned was the inverted pyramid lead, which means to open your story with the most important hard...
View ArticleA Queasy, Unbalanced Feeling: Karen Berger Leaves Vertigo Comics
It’s been while since the 1990s glory days of Vertigo Comics, when books like Sandman, Hellblazer, Shade The Changing Man, Y: The Last Man and Preacher stomped on the terra and helped solidify the...
View ArticleNew Blood: Shelly Bond Named Executive Editor of Vertigo
There was some speculation, not just here at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office, but around the Western comic reading world, that Karen Berger’s exit as Executive Editor of Vertigo Comics,...
View ArticleDjango Adapted: Django Unchained #1 Review
When DC Comics announced at San Diego Comic-Con that they were planning to release a comics adaptation of Quentin Tarantino’s movie Django Unchained, which is out in theaters today, I was not...
View ArticleHow Low Can You Go? – Amanda’s Picks For The Comic Book Low Points Of 2012
2012 is firmly at our backs. Congratulations, everyone. We made it. I don’t know about the rest of you, but we had some real time encounters with abject, stinking failure in 2012 that make me all the...
View ArticleA Resounding Who?: Dan Trachtenberg To Direct Y: The Last Man
Brian K. Vaughn’s and Pia Guerra’s Vertigo comic Y: The Last Man has been in development by New Line Studios for more than five years, not that the phrase “in development” really has any meaning. After...
View ArticleElegy For A Bastard – Review Of Hellblazer #300
Yesterday, I bemoaned the fate of Hellblazer and the title’s termination at issue 300 before going on to say mostly nice things about a character that had been generally known as a cliche, prior to...
View ArticleThe Abyss, Paper Edition: The Wake #1 Review
Editor’s Note: I got to tell you, I give this whole thing a spoiler-factor of about nine point five. James Cameron’s 1989 movie The Abyss is one of my favorite movies (and if you could quit fucking...
View ArticleChoose Your Own Adventure: Astro City #1 Review
Astro City is good. It has always been good. For 17 years, across multiple miniseries and a variety of publishers, writer Kurt Busiek and artist Brent Anderson have come up with a generally can’t-miss...
View ArticleFamily Reunion: The Sandman Overture #1 Review
Editor’s Note: Since my local comic store, where they know me by name and ask me why anyone would consider a digital publication of any kind when he’s sure he probably has a slightly used yet still...
View ArticleHappily Ever After: Bill Willingham Announces Fables To End With Issue 150
It’s a good thing that, for good or ill, Vertigo Comics has got some Sandman back in the fold for at least a little while, because their arguably final big series from their second wave of glory days...
View ArticleThe Book Was Better: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Neil Gaiman To Produce Sandman Movie
I love comic book movies, but it is a love like John Hinckley Jr.’s for Jodie Foster: just because a feeling borders on obsession doesn’t mean that the object of that affection will ever love you back....
View ArticleThe Wolf Among Us: Episode 2 – Fables Video Game Trailer
Ok, so, Telltale Games, makers of the award winning video game version of The Walking Dead, have turned their hand to developing a video game from Vertigo’s Fables series. They’re up to Episode 2. I...
View ArticleSometimes You Need Detergent And Elbow Grease; Sometimes You Need An Exorcism...
This isn’t a review. This is what happens when I’m left alone in a room with a packet of Sudafed, a bottle of Scotch, and a stack of comics and start to free associate. You’ve been warned. In addition...
View Article“Beast In The Cave”– Not A Euphemism: Review of American Vampire #19
In March 2010, American Vampire debuted through Vertigo. The premise of the book is that in the United States a new breed of vampire has been born, one with that is faster and more powerful than its...
View ArticleMork Calling Orson: Spaceman #1 Review
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ground Control to Major Tom: commencing countdown, spoilers on. Here’s the thing about Brian Azzarello, which you already know if you’ve read 100 Bullets: he writes a great crime story....
View ArticleWill It Be Like Chocolate Meeting Peanut Butter? – Anthony Bourdain’s “Get...
I was always one of those people who, in high school, kept very separate groups of friends. I had one group for theater geek activities, one group for all things jock related, and another one for the...
View ArticleDark History: Justice League Dark #3 Review
EDITOR’S NOTE: On initial publication of this review, I missed Ryan Sook’s cover credit and attributed the cover work to interior artist Mikel Janin. Mikel was good enough to check into the comments...
View ArticleThe Kids Are All Right – Review Of Marzi, A Memoir
When you say the words “comic book” to the average American, they will most likely think of stories having to do with capes and cowls. However, there is a rich tradition of comic books that are reality...
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