The Wake Archives

By Matt Spector Science and mythology collide under the sea in Vertigo Comic's apocalyptic epic, The Wake Created by Scott Snyder (Batman) and Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus), this Eisner Award winning miniseries is as smartly written as it is beautiful to look at Here are the top five spoiler-filled reasons you should be reading The[...]

I don't know what it is about those instincts, other than that deep down, the scariest thing out there, and this is the same as what we were talking about in terms of landscape, is embracing things that are unfamiliar and unknown. We talked about this a lot in The Wake, as one of the engines[...]

The final issue of The Wake as a completed story by Scott Snyder, Sean Murphy, and Matthew Hollingsworth, arrived on July 3oth, a couple of days after the series won an Eisner Award at San Diego Comic Con 2014. Just prior to the convention, I ran some excerpted quotes by Scott Snyder about the series, already[...]

I try to decide now, looking back, what made me pick up the first issue of The Wake from Vertigo The interesting logo caught my attention, the edgy color schemes of orange and yellow around it, the covers that suggested something lurking under the surface of dark waters, and I come back to the allure[...]

Indie cred will be awarded on your way out. Either way though, I shouldn't have to state how perfect a moment the midpoint issue is for any series as evident by The Wake and Trillium It's the optimal time to jump on, and those who have been following along already know what comes next will completely[...]

And this is, after all, a Vertigo book. But that's not actually what I'm talking about when I say that The Wake, issues #8 and #9, leading up to the series finale in #10, is getting scarier It's the mental stuff, the unexplained stuff, and the eerie way that people react to things. [*Mild spoilers for issue[...]

Log in and tell us what looks great in the July Previews! Thanks for watching! Time stamps for this episode are: 11:28 Original Sin #1 12:32 Green Lantern #31 13:27 Future's End #1 14:56 Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #1 15:54 Cyclops #1 16:43 Nailbiter #1 18:33 Madame Frankenstein #1 22:24 Rat Queens #6 23:17 Moon Knight #3 24:10 Iron Fist: Living Weapon #2 25:10 Magneto #3 26:13 Earth 2[...]

This is the year of Hawkeye, of Saga and of The Wake Of Love And Rockets, of March Book One and Bluffton: My Summers with Buster. And of Fantagraphics and Image Comics ruling the roost… Who wins of course, well, that's for the night of the show… Best Short Story "Go Owls," by Adrian Tomine, in Optic Nerve #13 (Drawn & Quarterly) "Mars[...]

But there's no turning back now, that's for sure. Well, it's hard to recover from the deep thoughts in Overture enough to read any other comics, but we forge ahead with the also very high-minded series The Wake by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy from Vertigo The previous issue, #6, peeled back the layers on the[...]

I enjoyed plenty of other books like Deadly Class, Walking Dead, Serenity, and Scott Snyder's The Wake And, if you have $10 and want to try a volume one this week, Rat Queens: Sass and Sorcery is your best bet I'm starting to love that book Cap of Nerdy Show and I did an interview[...]

I've been looking forward to several of these titles to see where they are headed, including Revenge, The Wake, and Wraith, but I'm gingerly picking up Superman: Lois Lane to see if I take a shine to it We'll see… First up, it's Revenge, written by Jonathan Ross, with art by Ian Churchill, with letters by[...]

The Wake, from Vertigo, a division of DC Comics, written by Scott Snyder, with art by Sean Murphy The Wake follows its own star as a series, shuffling aside expectations and even the burdens of science-fiction and horror traditions in comics, and for that reason it swims rather than sinks Neither Scott Snyder nor Sean Murphy,[...]

One of our New York correspondents, Elizabeth Heyman, writes for Bleeding Cool: The fifth issue of Vertigo's The Wake was already legendary among the book's readers a month before it was even released Simply alluding to the particular comic anywhere within earshot of a comic shop or an online forum would always be met with the[...]

I've been looking forward to quite a few titles this week and more than ever before, I'm getting the Wednesday twitch and wanting to get into the shop to see the new issues as soon as possible so big thanks to my local comic shop, Conquest Comics in New Jersey for giving me my fix[...]

A little like swearing. And The Wake, honestly, get a mature readers label on the cover and you think you can just take liberties. There you go Batwoman, proof if you needed it, that superheroes just go looking for trouble They probably cause all the very problems that they then try to save us from[...]

But when an electrical storm creates havoc for the people of Gotham City, an inexperienced Kate can't deny her duty to protect the innocent! But it will also now be  a 40-page issue and cost $3.99. Also, The Wake #5 will feature expanded contents, including a 25-page story, sketch material and more, again with an increased cover[...]

Scott Snyder was signing and interviewing heavily at New York Comic Con, and fans couldn't have been happier with that, but in case you missed it, his big push, as he announced in the Vertigo Defy panel at the Con, is to clarify that there are some big transitions happening in The Wake right now[...]

He's finding himself "experimenting" on the book, and feels he's been drawing his whole life to get to the point to work on the series. Scott Snyder, who was suffering from "karoake voice" talked about The Wake as a place to "experiment" particularly in "scope and the sweeping nature of it" He described the series as[...]

This week we have the debut of the much anticipated Sex Criminals, the return of Tom Strong, a shift in gears for The Wake, and debuts for Rat Queens and Super! It's a challenge to keep up, especially if your mind's still buzzing with reactions to last night's premier of Agents of SHIELD I'm here[...]