Young Animal Archives

Far Sector #12 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, the final relic of a bygone era of DC, the last surviving Young Animal comic It's almost too sad to even read the preview, knowing the end is near But we do what we must, here in the noble field of comics "journalism," to[...]

Ellis continues, I'm helping out another publishing partner with a new initiative – we're calling that PROJECT GENEVA, and the contracts have been exchanged — but my hoped-for happy few years alternating tv work with releasing streams of new original comics material into the world is not to be. Something like a Warren Ellis Millarworld, America's Best[...]

DC Comics has officially announced the return of Young Animal, the 90s Vertigo nostalgia-themed imprint curated by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way Way returns with co-writer Jeremy Lambert for a new Doom Patrol series, Weight of the Worlds, with art by James Harvey, Doc Shaner, Nick Pitarra, Becky Cloonan, and more With over six[...]

Gerard Way's '90s Vertigo revival, Young Animal, will take a hiatus after the current run of mini-series, according to a scoop by Comics Beat's Alexander Lu The line was plagued by delays to its flagship title, Doom Patrol, though Way claims that book will return, along with Young Animal in some capacity, in the future. Here's[...]

Wonder Woman reinvented as a suburban housewife, doing the cleaning with a golden hoover, holding a glass of milk, red star on her over mitts and a pinny with WW golden stitching up top — oh, and a domino mask on. As with the rest of the Milk Wars specials, we have seen the Justice League[...]

Yesterday, thanks to a trigger-happy DC intern who accidentally published the press release recapping the Vertigo/Young Animal panel more than 12 hours before the panel was scheduled to take place, we learned that Magdalene Visaggio and Sonny Liew will be working on a new Young Animal series called Eternity Girl, starting in March 2018: ETERNITY GIRL,[...]

Late last night, someone at DC goofed and leaked the press release meant to come out after the Vertigo/Young Animal panel extremely early As a result, we already knew much of what would be discussed, including the name of the upcoming weekly Young Animal crossover mashing together the Young Animal books with DCU characters: "Milk Wars" will[...]

Gerard Way's Doom Patrol may have experienced some technical difficulties with coming out on time in the past year, but in the case of announcements for Saturday's Vertigo and Young Animal panel at New York Comic Con, the comic was early, for once. DC Comics accidentally leaked the press release early, revealing everything that will be discussed[...]

Early Saturday morning, ahead of an upcoming panel at New York Comic Con, DC Comics accidentally leaked all their top secret announcements for Vertigo and Young Animal Oops! Their loss is our gain though, especially because we now know that Eisner-nominated creator Magdalene Visaggio will team up with artist Sonny Liew for a new six-issue miniseries[...]

You would think Doom Patrol by Gerard Way and Nick Derington was a Marvel super-mega-crossover event with the amount of times it's been delayed. Over the past year, Doom Patrol, the flagship book of DC's Young Animal imprint, has had a teeny, tiny little problem The book can't seem to come out on time It's been[...]

One such panel that has us wondering is the Vertigo/DC's Young Animal panel on Saturday, October 7th The panel is described as: "Comics For Dangerous Humans and comics' most innovative imprint are here to melt our brains at NYCC!  Come witness the next stage in the (r)evolution of Vertigo and DC's Young Animal, as we look[...]

Earlier today, we learned that Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye and Shade The Changing Girl will go on a hiatus in October, and that Gerard Way's Young Animal will cross over with the DCU in January The crossover will happen via a series of four one-shots, and at the Young Animal panel tonight, we[...]

Announced today at the DC press breakfast, Gerard Way's Young Animal imprint will crossover with the proper DCU. In addition to a subtle revelation that Young Animal is officially under the Vertigo banner following DC's recent restructuring, we also learned some exciting news about a new crossover between Young Animal and the DC Universe. Shade The Changing[...]

While Sanchez has published several Amory Wars series at BOOM! Studios that serve as companions to Coheed and Cambria's albums, Way was given an entire publishing imprint at DC, Young Animal That damn Gerard Way just keeps beating Claudio Sanchez no matter what he does! However, cracks have begun to show in Way's impenetrable armor[...]

Is this imprint on the chopping block? When DC announced that they'd be starting up what basically amounts to a second Vertigo, closer to Vertigo's original vibe than Vertigo itself, in Gerard Way's Young Animal imprint, a lot of fans wondered if there was still a need for the original Vertigo Indeed, that same question could[...]

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool reported on the increasing delays afflicting Gerard Way and Nick Derington's Doom Patrol, the flagship book of Way's Young Animal imprint at DC Comics The book's fourth issue was originally scheduled for for December 14, but was pushed back to December 28 with Way posting the following message to Instagram: Hey all—[...]

Back in November, when Bleeding Cool learned that Doom Patrol, the flagship book of Gerard Way's Young Animal label, would see its fourth issue pushed back two weeks, to December 28th, we reasoned, at least it has expanded to 40 pages with no price increase When Bleeding Cool noticed that DC's March solicitations contained no[...]

It looks like, come March, they'll have to wait some more, as there's no new issue of the book scheduled for that month, according to Young Animal solicitations revealed EXXXCLUSIVELY over at CBRama.com The first arc concludes with Doom Patrol #6 in February, so this could be a sign that Young Animal, or at least[...]

By Jonathan Rich, Bleeding Cool Senior Southern Correspondent DC Comics' newest imprint Young Animal has already made a name for itself for being different and Saturday at NC Comicon the creators involved in making these 'comics for dangerous humans' talked about what makes the experience resonate for their discriminating readers. "To think freely is to be dangerous[...]

Lee says Young Animal is a pop up imprint, and it was created for Way and the work he wants to do, and will exist for as long as Way wants to work on it. Way talks about for years talking with Shelley Bond and trying to do something with Vertigo, but nothing ever came of[...]

And will be using it to launch his Young Animal line, Doom Patrol, Shade The Changing Girl, Mother Panic and Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye with many of the creators.   Last year at the North Carolina Comicon, at Durham Convention Center, Bleeding Cool reported that Gerard Way talked about bringing back his Doom Patrol[...]

Gerard Way has been giving more sneak peeks into the upcoming Young Animal mature readers line from DC Comics. What is emerging from each book is the difference in tone- they are all doing their own thing, and it is wonderful I grow more excited as I see them come together, watching the collective vision of[...]

In the interview below he talked with Tiffany Smith of DC's All-Access about his interning at DC and how he ended up with the new imprint Young Animal and what to expect from the four titles: Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye, Doom Patrol, Shade the Changing Girl, and Mother Panic The first three titles[...]