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Just as they have already done with Flash and Green Arrow ahead of their upcoming TV shows, DC Comics is rush-soliciting a 64 page $1 Constantine #1:

Developed by Californication creator Tom Kapinos. A put pilot commitment means that the network has agreed to air the pilot or will owe a substantial monetary penalty to the studio. Lucifer is a DC Comics character that first appeared in a the Vertigo series The Sandman and then got a spinoff series of his own[...]

And the Squad will return to the television series as well. Also new villain Vertigo (Peter Stormare) will be get some time in the comic showing what he is up to prior to his debut on the TV screen And you'll want to pay attention to Caleb Green who is introduced in the first issue and[...]

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: This week the Futures End event kicked off with some really awesome titles and the 3-D lenticular covers were fantastic! Marvel had their fair share of awesome titles,[...]

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: This week there were so many great books! Some great #1's along with some titles that have been amazing since they started! We're loving some Image titles more[...]

Hell On Earth #122 Dark Horse: Dark Horse Presents #1 IDW: Little Nemo Return To Slumberland #1 Image Comics: Fade Out #1 DC Comics: Multiversity #1 Marvel Comics: Punisher Vol.1 Black And White TP Marvel Comics: Loki Agent Of Asgard Vol.1 Trust Me TP Marvel Comics: Winter Soldier: The Bitter March TP DC Comics: Batman Incorporated Vol.2 Gotham's Most Wanted TP Vertigo: Lucifer Vol.4[...]

On my third trip, I will actually see what's obsessed me to the point of carrying it in my luggage so many times. Well, let's be clear that I knew that the artwork was by Inaki Miranda, the artist who I had noticed on Coffin Hill from Vertigo and been fairly entranced by That was enough[...]

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to

He plays his guitar while biding his time for unsuspecting tourists and thinking about going to grad school. Astro City #14 (Vertigo, $3.99) By Cat Taylor I have nothing but the highest praise for Astro City In my opinion, it's consistently the best comic book series currently on the shelves It never ceases to amaze me that Kurt[...]

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

Smith Remember when Vertigo comics were fucking scary? Of course you don't. The last thing to come out of Vertigo that was genuinely terrifying, Preacher, finished its run back in 2000, and its spiritual predecessor, Hellblazer, was axed after 300 issues so that good old boy John Constantine could be shuffled back into the New 52-ified version of[...]

Sandman Overture #3 is released today, by Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III, continuing the story of Dream and Dream Cat wandering reality together, towards

At the Diamond Retailers Appreciation lunch at San Diego Comic Con, Bob Wayne announced for Vertigo the upcoming Dustcovers book for Sandman artwork by Dave McKean, and also a book Dreamstates which will include new Sandman stories in each by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean Could it be the "last Sandman story" in their collaboration?[...]

At San Diego Comic Con, in the Vertigo Defy Panel, Bill Benis announced a new November book for Vertigo, The Kitchen. Set in the 70's and the reference is to Hell's Kitchen with a high concept dealing with the wives of Irish Gangsters They decide they want to take over "the racket" but when their husbands[...]

It was a full line-up of creators for Vertigo Defy at San Diego Comic Con, with Mark Buckingham, Tula Lotay, Shelly Bond, Lee Bermejo, Scott Snyder, and Simon Oliver, Mark Doyle, and Will Dennis In fact, it was one of those dais-breakers where not everyone can quite fit and they better watch the chairs on[...]

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[...]

She really had a lot of heart, and that spoke to her co-creator, the departed Dwayne McDuffie, who was a man with a lot of heart. [Rocket] NF: The launch of the Milestone line of comics in 1993 was part of an amazing moment of change in the history of American comics, with DC's Vertigo imprint having[...]

The book was finished and paid for. And then never published. A sci-fi graphic novel about nanotech and body modification, the only mention of it I could find online was on Phil's Facebook page where he puts up an image (which we had to modify ourselves sadly, you can find the original here) and writes, well a coupla[...]

This is the cover to Vertigo's new series, Bodies.   DC Comics have got David Finch to draw a 1-in-13 variant cover to help goose sales of the first issue, which will also be fully returnable to retailers who order 90% of their orders on American Vampire: Second Cycle So, given your prejudices about Finch and the[...]

During that period, she rose to the Executive Editor of the Vertigo line which she created establishing a long line of mature readers comic books and graphic novels, including Y The Last Man, Hellblazer, Preacher, Fables, Kill Your Boyfriend, Pride Of Baghdad and Invisibles, as well as reinventing the likes of Sandman, Swamp Thing, Doom Patrol,[...]

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to

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[...]

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to discuss this

Bane #1 Vertigo: Vertigo Quarterly Cyan #1 Dark Horse: Star Wars – Rebel Heist #1 (of 4) Image Comics: Southern Bastards #1 DC Comics: Superman Batman Vol.1 (Trade) Image Comics: Pretty Deadly Vol.1 (Trade) Chronicle Books: Kids Are Weird And Other Observations From Parenthood (HC) FREE COMIC BOOK DAY BOOKS: Top Shelf Kid's Club Fantagraphics: Hip Hop Family Tree Two-in-One Marvel: Rocket Raccoon #1 IDW Publishing:[...]

Comic writer Joe Keatinge has spoken out about the comic Cyan, published today by DC Comics/Vertigo, on Tumblr I reproduce his statement below The bolding is mine. Today sees the release of the first of four quarterly Vertigo CMYK anthologies It has a Cyan cover. The issue is advertised as featuring a collaboration between Ken Garing and me,[...]

The signing will commence at 5PM.  Wednesday, April 30th The Vertigo Quarterly Launch/JHU's 1st Birthday party will be held at JHU Comics at 32 East 32nd Street in New York City from 6-8PM this Wednesday.  They say: "What do you get when Amy Chu (Girls Night Out, The VIP Room), James Tynion IV (Batman: Eternal, Talon), Larry[...]

Spotted on the corner of 86th and Lex, a phone box with a special message… This is new evidence that the quarter of a million dollar advertising budget boasted of by Shelly Bond is being spent… On more than Sandman Overture. Hinterkind, the new Vertigo series by Ian Edginton and Francesco Trifolgi is certainly getting a push. [...]

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: This week is exciting! The art of Elektra had us drooling! The awkward familiarity of Eltingville Club had us in stitches! And getting to know The Watcher made[...]

Since taking over for Geoff Johns, Jeff Parker's run on DC's Aquaman has been getting a lot of positive buzz, so we are happy to give you a preview of issue #30 that hits stands this week along with the Vertigo title Dead Boy Detectives #5. [...]

By Devon Sanders Recently, artist Yanick Paquette drew attention to the fact that certain publishers don't pay any sort of royalty or give cover credits to some of comics' most important and hardest working creative, its colorists, and we covered it here at Bleeding Cool. I reached out to one of the medium's best, Rico Renzi, colorist[...]