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Last month, I told you how DC Comics was creating a new Vertigo promotion for the launch of new titles, giving retailers discount if they ordered the launch titles at certain percentages to Sandman Overture #5. Well they are doing the exact same discounts for the launches of Jacked, Red Thorn, Slash & Burn and Unfollow. And again if they[...]

With twelve new Vertigo series set to launch this fall, DC Entertainment solicits the free Vertigo 2015 Preview Book, 32 pages showing off these books. • Art Ops • Clean Room • Jacked • Last Gang in Town • Lucifer • Red Thorn • New Romancer • The Sheriff of Babylon • Slash & Burn • Survivors' Club • Twilight Children • Unfollow Remember,[...]

This is how Tom King and Mitch Gerad's Sheriff Of Baghdad graphic novel from DC Comics was announced at San Diego Comic Con. It's one of a number of new projects announced by DC Vertigo at San Diego Comic Con and is seen by some as evidence of a creative revival at the imprint that's been a long[...]

This Week's Reviews: Mad Max: Fury Road: Nux & Immortan Joe #1 Mad Max: Fury Road: Furiosa #1 Mad Max: Fury Road: Max #1 – 2 Academia Waltz & Other Profound Transgressions TPB   Mad Max: Fury Road: Nux & Immortan Joe #1 Mad Max: Fury Road: Furiosa #1 Mad Max: Fury Road: Max #1 – 2 (Vertigo, $4.99 ea) By Graig Kent Almost inconceivably,[...]

The most recent Previews listed four new Vertigo titles for October, of twelve new launches planned for this year Art Ops, Clean Room, Survivors Club and The Twilight Children But given that, aside from Sandman Overture, Vertigo orders have been a little lacklustre of late, what is a beleaguered publisher imprint to do? Well, retailers that order[...]

Different networks (Lucifer will air on Fox while Constantine was on NBC) but who knows, maybe if we all want it bad enough we can demand this show become the shared Vertigo universe we all know it can be. This version of Lucifer refuses to take almost anything seriously and the show is better for it[...]

At SDCC today, Vertigo announced a dozen new titles that will be making their debut this fall from the imprint There will be a new #1 each week for twelve consecutive weeks featuring: Darwyn Cooke, Gilbert Hernandez, Michael Allred, Holly Black, Lauren Beukes and Gail Simone, among others The Fall slate will also include continuing series[...]

By Chris Thompson As a long-term comics fan – and events manager at Orbital Comics in central London – it’s always fun to do something more than just your

Ollie Masters, of Vertigo's The Kitchen, has a new series coming out from Boom! Studios We may discover more at San Diego, but for now here's what the comic is gong to be about… [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0WDP8iKnnc[/youtube] Family, family secrets and lies, and a son trying to work out who he is as his parents past violently comes back to haunt him… [...]

It was Wanda that upset them most: the idea of a Trans Woman in a comic book… They told us they were organising a boycott of SANDMAN, which they would only stop if we wrote to the American Family Association and promised to reform. I wonder if they noticed it didn't work last time, either… Fox's adaptation[...]

The conservative media pressure group One Million Moms has just launched a campaign to persuade Fox TV to drop their upcoming TV series, based on the DC

Sandman Overture could so easily have been a coasting job. Taking in the sights, once more round the mulberry bush, job done, bring home half a million

In July, the Fables series will come to an end, culminating in an original graphic novel and final volume to the series, Fables: Farewell. The 168 page

We are all very familiar with Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Stapes from Image Comics. But did you know there was another Saga by Vaughan and Staples?

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[...]

https://youtu.be/29Nok-Bo1ncVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Realist, Invisible Republic, Deadly Class, Scott Pilgrim, the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and more! (https://youtu.be/29Nok-Bo1nc)   Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: Bringing you discussions of all the[...]

There was a time when Vertigo published some of the most beautiful comics With truly intricately detailed works of art From the likes of Glenn Fabry, Phil Winslade, Steve Pugh and more Work that you could lose yourself in for days in the splendour of it all. Then the big time page rates went away and so[...]

"Please don't turn our heroes into villains" said no one ever, or at least not recently. This seems to be the current age of treachery, transformation,

We have the latest in Arrow Stunt videos – this one focuses on the fight between Black Canary and Vertigo… or Black Canary vs Canary if you are under the influence of Vertigo We see how the stunt team had to break the fight down two different ways since Canary and Vertigo have very different[...]

This was the cover to Coffin Hill #15 from Vertigo Comics The first title edited by Ellie Pyle who moved from Marvel to DC/Vertigo – someone willing to go west when many DC staffers chose not to. The cover, as you can see features a "story so far" button And inside we get a recap of the[...]

Which means that we should know the finale fate of the Vertigo adapted series sometime in May.   End of April date has been set to pitch 2nd season ideas to NBC Then they decide on a Season 2 #Constantine #SaveConstantine #Hellblazers — Daniel Cerone (@DanielVCerone) March 29, 2015 Cerone who had been very vocal about getting the show[...]

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: Bringing you discussions of all the new exciting books in comicdom. Another huge batch of awesome trade paperbacks and original graphic novels hit the streets today, so Maxx &[...]

Vertigo Comics, as part of DC,  is one of the last holdouts for the $2.99 price point As even Image Comics have started to move towards $3.50, Archie Comics has jumped to $3.99 and Marvel are basically down to Ms Marvel And there are increasing signs that $4.99 will be upon us soon. Well, it seems[...]

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: Bringing you discussions of all the new exciting books in comicdom. Maxx is back! Showcasing some of the great new collected editions out this week, then Foxi takes us[...]

Next week the CW launches another comic book based series, this one tied to a Vertigo series iZombie makes its debut on March 17th along with the return of The Flash and the network has released two clips for the show. Olivia "Liv" Moore was a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path[...]

That is Gary, the on-again-off-again boyfriend in BBC sitcom Miranda. And now he has been cast as Lucifer, in the upcoming Fox adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic. Bleeding Cool ran the very first script review of the pilot, here In it, we said that the script was such that it would need an extraordinary fellow it lift it up,[...]

TV, the series follows the Lord of Hell as he gives up his throne and heads to Los Angeles where he helps the LAPD catch and punish criminals. It is based on the Vertigo comic series created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg The pilot was written by Tom Kapinos and will be directed[...]

At the retailer roadshow in Orando with DC Comics, retailers were told the latest on Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III's Sandman Overture, which has been running at a rate well behind DC's initial projections. With four issues out in eighteen months. However retailers were told that Sandman Overture will be out in May. And that pretty much the primary[...]

DC / Vertigo is going to collaborate with George Miller, the director, producer and co-writer for the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road on two projects tied to the film The first is called Mad Max: Fury Road: Inspired Artist where 65 different artists will create pieces inspired by the world created in the film The[...]

This week's episode of Arrow pits Canary versus Black Canary and Katie versus Caity as Count Vertigo (Peter Stormare) returns and the new Black Canary (Katie Cassidy) gets hit by a full blast of the Count's mind-altering chemical causing Laurel's biggest fear, disappointing her sister Sara (Caity Lotz) and causing the two Canaries to fight[...]