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At Thought Bubble Comic Con in 2023, I got the scoop that "in 2024 (or at this stage, more likely 2025), DC Comics will be bringing back Vertigo." A year later at New York Comic Con in 2024, they announced that a) this was indeed happening and that b) the creator-owned series Nice House By[...]

A famed editor at DC Vertigo, for which she was executive editor from 2013 to 2016, working on titles such as Sandman, Shade, the Changing Man, Sandman Mystery Theatre,  iZombie, Terminal City, Heavy Liquid, Fables, Deadenders, Young Liars, Lucifer, and The Invisibles. Titled i-DOPPELGäNGER and listed on Kickstarter, she says, "In December of 1992, I was[...]

DC offers new printings of the first three issues of The Nice House by the Sea from writer James Tynion IV and artist Álvaro Martínez Bueno now featuring the DC Vertigo logo for the first time. Retailers who order ten copies or more of any combination of The Nice House on the Lake: The Deluxe Edition[...]

At last year's Thought Bubble Comic Con, Bleeding Cool got the scoop that "in 2024 (or at this stage, more likely 2025), DC Comics will be bringing back Vertigo." And at New York Comic Con, they just announced that a) this was indeed happening and that b) the creator-owned series Nice House By The Sea by James Tynion[...]

And the gossip that in 2024 (or at this stage, more likely 2025), DC Comics will be bringing back Vertigo This was a mature readers line that brought together darker takes on existing DC Universe characters such as Swamp Thing, John Constantine, Doom Patrol, Animal Man, Swamp Thing and Sandman, as well as semi-creator-owned series[...]

In light of the release of the Netflix adaptation of the comic book Bodies by the late Si Spencer, Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay, Phil Winslade, Megan Hetrick and Lee Loughridge, a CGC 9.8 slabbed copy of the first issue of the series published in 2014 by DC Comics/Vertigo has sold on eBay for $125 Only nine were[...]

Vertigo, the classic suspense film by Alfred Hitchcock, is getting a remake Set up at Paramount; Steven Knight will pen the script Robert Downey Jr is said to be starring in the film and will also be a producer along with Susan Downey Knight is a busy man, as he just also signed on to write[...]

Seaguy was planned as a three-volume comic book miniseries written by Grant Morrison with art by Cameron Stewart and published by DC/Vertigo A comic book series about a powerless superhero in a scuba suit, with his sidekick Chubby Da Choona, a talking, cigar-smoking tuna fish The first volume was published in 2004, the second, Seaguy:[...]

The DC Vertigo version of House of Secrets was an occult and horror-themed comic by Steven T Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen, with occasional assistance by Christian Højgaard, Guy Davis, Duncan Fegredo and the Pander Brothers It debuted in October 1996, reviving the DC trademark, and ran for 25 issues until the end of 1998, followed[...]

DC Comics' all-you-can-eat streaming subscription service has added thousands of comics to its premium subscription level, the existence of which was scooped by Bleeding Cool in October, DC Universe Infinite Ultra from the sadly-shuttered mature readers line that changed an industry, DC Vertigo, as well as the opportunity to read comics one month after they[...]

In 2017, DC Comics announced they were to publish a Vertigo: A Celebration of 25 Years Hardcover that would include an oral history of the DC Comics mature readers imprint, Vertigo Meant to published in 2018, it was delayed, and was then never released to comic book stores One of those things In 2019 DC[...]

Over a decade since she last published the series at the now-defunct Vertigo (RIP), Karen Berger is bringing back Air by G Willow Wilson and M K Perker under the Berger Books imprint at Dark Horse Originally published for 24 issues between 2008 and 2010, the comic will be reprinted as four trade paperbacks, beginning[...]

Microids and Pendulo Studios released a new developer diary for Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo, showing off the game's artwork Before the game is released on PC on December 16th, the team decided to show off the work that went into creating this very specific visual style that encapsulates the original film while also standing out[...]

Jones Y: The Last Man #6 Cover Original Art (DC/Vertigo, 2002). Early cover painting from the critically-acclaimed comic series, that is soon to be released as an FX/Hulu television series The last man on Earth, Yorick Brown and his monkey, Ampersand, are hiding in a train's cargo hold with some rather large pigs on this mixed[...]

Microids released a brand new trailer for Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo during Gamescom 2021 as we got a better look at the story going into the game The game takes cues from the Hitchcock way of storytelling, but they have made a totally different story with an original concept as you fight an intense case[...]

Rachel Pollack took over writing Doom Patrol from Grant Morrison at DC/Vertigo in the mid-nineties, she was the most prominent trans creator of the day, before that was even a consideration, and writing a trans character Coagula as part of the mix, a superhero team that Grant Morrison had established with more queer characters than[...]

The first issue, one of the stars at the beginning of the launch of Vertigo, has always been a bit undervalued That will not be the case anymore, as the aftermarket will be snapping up copies left and right, like this CGC 9.4 copy on auction at ComicConnect, part of Event Auction #46, Session 5[...]

An interesting reveal this weekend as Microids unveiled Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo, set to be released sometime in late 2021 To be clear right out the gate, this is not an adaptation of the classic 1954 film, but an original story that apparently will take cues from the film and other Alfred Hitchcock works The[...]

But then a few years ago, on an imprint purge, DC Comics put in the bin after first destroying the appeal of Vertigo contracts, seeing its big names go elsewhere, then making its most important brand executives, Karen Berger and Shelly Bond, redundant. And now we have the unimaginatively titles DC Horror A new imprint, launching[...]

Created by writer Neil Gaiman and artists Matt Wagner and Malcolm Jones in 1991's The Sandman # 25, the ghostly sleuths have a connection to the team overall and The Chief's (Timothy Dalton) daughter Alice (Abigail Shapiro) in particular via the Vertigo Comics crossover "The Children's Crusade" (a storyline that could come into play during[...]

Audible, Neil Gaiman, and Dirk Maggs are reuniting to bring listeners both Acts II and III of The Sandman audio drama adaptation.

Netflix's The Sandman officially welcomes Tom Sturridge as Dream, Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, and more to the series adaptation's cast.

Lucifer has cast Merrin Dungey (Big Little Lies) and Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool 2) for season 6, and also released some episode details.

But DC Comics decision to put the 2010 Vertigo comic book by Matt Kindt, Revolver, back into print, in March 2021 smacks of that kind of shenanigans At least it's not a cheap-as-chips version… Did Matt Kindt Try And Get The Rights To Revolver Back From DC Comics? REVOLVER is a tale of two worlds, and how[...]

The Sandman main-man Neil Gaiman offered more details on the Netflix series adapt, including Morpheus's casting, season storylines, and more.

With production currently underway, The Sandman creator and series EP Neil Gaiman took to Twitter to offer updates on the Netflix adaptation.

Image Courtesy San Diego Comic-Con @Home. In Constantine, Reeves played the eponymous John Constantine, based (somewhat loosely) on the Hellblazer comics from Vertigo/DC How loosely? Well, as Reeves so pithily explained, "I'm not English, and I'm not blonde." During production, they experimented with wigs and accents but finally decided to just make this a different take[...]

Ava DuVernay's upcoming adaptation of DC Comics/Vertigo comic book DMZ is one of those series that's been on our radar since it was first announced, and one of the few productions that was lucky enough to finish filming before the COVID-19 pandemic began shutting down television productions around the world But as we all know,[...]

With Netflix readying its series adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Logan director James Mangold commented on the HBO series that wasn't.

In the official season 2 trailer for DC Universe and HBO Max's Doom Patrol, our heroes need to stop Dorothy from unleashing Hell on Earth.