Karen Berger Leaving Vertigo

[Colin YNWA]

Fantastic. I find these days I'm far more invested in getting ongoings regularly and trade waiting mini's. The concept seems right up Ian Edginton's street so I'm very optimistic about this.

Funnily enough given that I've not bought an ongoing Vertigo title for years (lots of the good uns started during my Wilderness years and I've not jumped on) I'll not be trying out two this year (assuming Hinterkind starts before the end of the year) as I have high hopes for Collider too.

[O Lucky Stevie!]

"Hinterkind," written by Ian Edginton, set in a post-apocalyptic world in which creatures of myth and legend have returned"

I'm in.

From the S to the O to the L to the D.

The Discipline by Peter Milligan, an erotic thriller about a woman at the center of an shadow war that spans eons.

POEKHALI!

[Professor Bear]

Sounds a bit like Legendary and Axa respectively to me - mind you, I wouldn't risk/waste my A material at Vertigo these days, so fair play to the lads.

[Montynero]

I'm no Professor, but I'm not sure how a thing being a bit like another thing makes it B grade.

Skizz was a lot like E.T. (coincidentally) - if you described the thrust of it to someone.

[Ancient Otter]

The Discipline sounds like old school Vertigo Milligan stuff like The Extremist, the Lee Bermejo double duty title sounds interesting too, more information at Bleeding Cool, along with a promo images.

I think it's  a bit overly optimistic to call it a Vertigo fightback though, as I can't the see the non-Sandman/Dead Boy Detective titles being huge break-through sellers (though I hope to be gladly proven wrong).

[Montynero]

Thanks for the link:

"HINTERKIND – Decades after "The Blight" all but wiped out the human race, Mother Nature is taking back what's hers and she's not alone ... all the creatures of myth and legend have returned and they're not happy. After her grandfather disappears, Prosper Monday must leave the security and seclusion of her Central Park village to venture into the wilds to find him, unaware of how much the world has changed. An epic fantasy adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world, HINTERKIND is written by Ian Edginton and illustrated by Francesco Trifogli, and debuts this October"

Sounds like magic in the making. And I love that sample art too.

[TordelBack]

Confess a real interest in the Sandman prequel, as I was a big fan of the original run when it came out first.  I remain unconvinced that there ever was any significant story about how Morpheus lost his mojo that Gaiman somehow forgot to tell over 75 issues (much of the charm of Sandman was the way so much happened off screen, and that was very deliberate), especially given the very uncertain tone of the early episodes, but I don't doubt Gaiman's ability to come up with something interesting.   I struggled to care about the Endless Nights thing, but I did enjoy The Dream Hunters novella, and as I'll read any old crap with JH Williams III on art duties, this could very well justify a return to buying yanqui comics for me.

[Professor Bear]

I'm no Professor, but I'm not sure how a thing being a bit like another thing makes it B grade.

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An awesome tune remains an awesome tune the tenth time you hear it, it's just it's the tenth time you've heard it, you know?  I've drawed plenty in the small press and mentioned - much more diplomatically than my posting style here on the board may suggest - if something is a bit similar to something else, and most writers brush it off with "oh yeah, I didn't think of that", "I've never seen/read that", or "I will change this one little/big thing in the script and that should cover us."  Pointing these things out is not really a big deal* and most accept that writers who speak the same language and live in the same culture draw from the same big creative pool of influences, but in some instances (a Vertigo pitch would count as such), and especially in these elevator-pitch-obsessed times you sort of expect the road less traveled, like a book about a galaxy-sized ghost snake made from the lost boots of a thousand realities that sneezes dreams or something like that, though I shan't pretend I won't still be here in five years' time complaining that there are far too many books like Sneezey the Wellington Snake on the shelves.


* Although one writer did take a massive huff at the suggestion he was subject to outside creative influences and I never heard from him again - until he turned up working for one of the Big Two.  Fair play, though, as he seemed to be wearing his influences on his sleeve by that point.

[Montynero]

haha! I just want to read about this galaxy-sized ghost snake made from the lost boots of a thousand realities sneezing dreams now. C'mon, let's pitch Sneezy the Wellington Snake to Image! As long as it's an undead ghost snake, or a sexy female ghost snake - we should be fine.