C2E2: Vertigo: New Blood

[CBR News]

Vertigo's C2E2 panel was packed with a who's who of its top talent, with Scott Snyder to Bill Willingham and more discussing upcoming twists and turns, plus the announcement of new ongoing series, "Collider."


Full article here.

[SJNeal]

So they haven't even finished the Deluxe Editions of 100 Bullets, but Absolutes are already in the works? And yet no plans for Lucifer or Books of Magic?

Whatever *rolleyes*

[Pixie_Solanas]

Great panel. Ridiculous question re: Girl with Dragon Tattoo. More wide-scythe kneejerk reactionism, this time on something so relatively tame and inoffensive (re: cover image). Message is more than diluted when these are the complaints being doled out.

[fredmanson]

Not so interesting panel. I approve the remark of the post below about the ridiculous question on the nude cover of The Girl with Dragon Tattoo.

I think that Vertigo is reserving its "huge" announces for the next year for the last comic con event of this year.

My wish: a Vertigo Classic collection which will weekly reprint in glorious black and white at a bargain price of $1.99, each issues of the best collection titles of Vertigo, like Sandman, Lucifer, Preacher, Scalped (yes!!), etc. I am ready to pay $20.00 a week for 10 issues of this fantastic Classic collection!!!!

I am enough of the trades: I do not see them like living objects. A comic book is alive: it read and read a lot of time. A trade is read a few times then deposed on the shelf of a library and is waiting for last reading to come... OK, it is beautiful to have these long files of spines of trades. But the shelf seems to be a book cemetery...
And I am/was a trade waiter!!!!

[Devan]

Not so interesting panel. I approve the remark of the post below about the ridiculous question on the nude cover of The Girl with Dragon Tattoo.

I think that Vertigo is reserving its "huge" announces for the next year for the last comic con event of this year.

My wish: a Vertigo Classic collection which will weekly reprint in glorious black and white at a bargain price of $1.99, each issues of the best collection titles of Vertigo, like Sandman, Lucifer, Preacher, Scalped (yes!!), etc. I am ready to pay $20.00 a week for 10 issues of this fantastic Classic collection!!!!

I am enough of the trades: I do not see them like living objects. A comic book is alive: it read and read a lot of time. A trade is read a few times then deposed on the shelf of a library and is waiting for last reading to come... OK, it is beautiful to have these long files of spines of trades. But the shelf seems to be a book cemetery...
And I am/was a trade waiter!!!!

I agree with you and second your suggestion for a weekly Vertigo series collecting past issues. Make 'em 70+ pages (but stapled), though. I've found myself reconnecting with the comic-book format over the last few years, as well, in no small part due to the excellent series Image, Dark Horse, Oni and Icon have been offering (e.g. Criminal, Fatale, Demo, Local, Phonogram 2 etc.) Love the extra content provided!

[Darrell D.]

Not so interesting panel. I approve the remark of the post below about the ridiculous question on the nude cover of The Girl with Dragon Tattoo.

I think that Vertigo is reserving its "huge" announces for the next year for the last comic con event of this year.

My wish: a Vertigo Classic collection which will weekly reprint in glorious black and white at a bargain price of $1.99, each issues of the best collection titles of Vertigo, like Sandman, Lucifer, Preacher, Scalped (yes!!), etc. I am ready to pay $20.00 a week for 10 issues of this fantastic Classic collection!!!!

I am enough of the trades: I do not see them like living objects. A comic book is alive: it read and read a lot of time. A trade is read a few times then deposed on the shelf of a library and is waiting for last reading to come... OK, it is beautiful to have these long files of spines of trades. But the shelf seems to be a book cemetery...
And I am/was a trade waiter!!!!

I wonder, in regards to Preacher, does Ennis and Dillon have the rights to take the published book somewhere else? Like, if they wanted a different publishing company to put out the trades or Hardcover deluxe edition?

[Statham]

Great panel. Ridiculous question re: Girl with Dragon Tattoo. More wide-scythe kneejerk reactionism, this time on something so relatively tame and inoffensive (re: cover image). Message is more than diluted when these are the complaints being doled out.

It does make you wonder if they've seen the films or read the books at all. Salander might have been the victim of a sexual assault, but that doesn't mean she has no sexuality or anything along those lines.

[Libaax]

Oh last year i wasted money on comics i regretted now Vertigo is expanding with many cool new series. Seriously bad timing for me! They must realese vol 1 trade of new ongoings on time for godsake!

Collider i hope lives up the awesome sounding "The A-Team with quantum physics." A-Team(film fan) and SF fan!

[ScotsScribbler]

I wish someone would ask Vertigo:

Why there are so few titles?

What happened to Vertigo Resurrected??????

[groovemachine]

I wish someone would ask Vertigo:

Why there are so few titles?

What happened to Vertigo Resurrected??????

Because more and more creators are going to Image. The only title I'm really wowed by is "American Vampire". I doubt I will be continuing with any of the new titles past issue 3 (already on order).

[Statham]

I wish someone would ask Vertigo:

Why there are so few titles?

What happened to Vertigo Resurrected??????

DC keep on pissing people off. Look what happened with Roberson. He's wrapped iZombie, but by all accounts, he should've had a thriving career at DC after pretty much saving that rubbish Superman arc. But he disliked the way DC was treating some creators and moved on. So I think DC is about to get an incredible rude awakening of sorts from the people who aren't their big guns and that DC wouldn't dare treat badly. Image may offer a slightly higher risk factor, but they do have a better deal going for indie creators, frankly. That they own the books they make is one.

[theloupgaroukid]

This is just armchair speculation (I do not know Roberson or anyone at DC) but I'm unclear as to the cause and effect of Roberson's issue with DC Comics. Did he feel free to express his principles only because his Superman work led nowhere, iZombie was cancelled, and he only had the Fairest arc (since re-assigned) to go on his contract? Roberson didn't seem so concerned with Siegel and Shuster when he was salvaging 'Grounded' or writing his Batman/Superman 2-parter...

Regardless, we can agree that he should've had a thriving career on the superhero side of things simply based on making JMS' Superman atrocity readable. Said Batman/Superman story was subtle and clever. Sadly though it fits in to DC's pattern of letting talent slip away (Diggle, Aaron, Wood, etc.) for whatever unknown political reasons behind the scenes.

[Roldan]

This is just armchair speculation (I do not know Roberson or anyone at DC) but I'm unclear as to the cause and effect of Roberson's issue with DC Comics. Did he feel free to express his principles only because his Superman work led nowhere, iZombie was cancelled, and he only had the Fairest arc (since re-assigned) to go on his contract? Roberson didn't seem so concerned with Siegel and Shuster when he was salvaging 'Grounded' or writing his Batman/Superman 2-parter...

Regardless, we can agree that he should've had a thriving career on the superhero side of things simply based on making JMS' Superman atrocity readable. Said Batman/Superman story was subtle and clever. Sadly though it fits in to DC's pattern of letting talent slip away (Diggle, Aaron, Wood, etc.) for whatever unknown political reasons behind the scenes.

That is how DC has always done things. Thought to be honest i never cared Roberson mainstream stuff, IZombie was awesome but his Superman run was so boring (even worse in my opinion). They've also had Brubaker and Dysart. The fact that they have Snyder and Lemire is miracle.

[Statham]

That is how DC has always done things. Thought to be honest i never cared Roberson mainstream stuff, IZombie was awesome but his Superman run was so boring (even worse in my opinion). They've also had Brubaker and Dysart. The fact that they have Snyder and Lemire is miracle.

Still, the fact of the matter is that Roberson (and Hester over on Wonder Woman) saved what could have otherwise been a complete mess thanks to Straczynski just wandering off, apparently so he could focus on Earth One, but now he's actively confessed he isn't interested in montly books at the moment. Roberson saved that run and kept it afloat, basically, until the reboot. But DC's attitude toward it's smaller creators of less repute is pretty disgusting, in my opinion. Oh, and theloupgaroukid? iZombie wasn't cancelled. Allred and Roberson wrapped the book up because we heard about that way before this occuring. Undoubtedly Roberson was starting to feel things that caused him to leave DC, but he was still lined up to do that Fairest arc until recently.

[Roldan]

Still, the fact of the matter is that Roberson (and Hester over on Wonder Woman) saved what could have otherwise been a complete mess thanks to Straczynski just wandering off, apparently so he could focus on Earth One, but now he's actively confessed he isn't interested in montly books at the moment. Roberson saved that run and kept it afloat, basically, until the reboot. But DC's attitude toward it's smaller creators of less repute is pretty disgusting, in my opinion. Oh, and theloupgaroukid? iZombie wasn't cancelled. Allred and Roberson wrapped the book up because we heard about that way before this occuring. Undoubtedly Roberson was starting to feel things that caused him to leave DC, but he was still lined up to do that Fairest arc until recently.

Straczynski took a hiatus from monthlies to reevaluate his performance, which i think he should. Well, it seemed to be more about Before Watchmen for Roberson (and to lesser degree, the Schuster-Siegel affair). Also you shouldn't forget that DC and Marvel are here to make money so that kinda attitude is almost required. Of course i don't like that excuse either but i wouldn't call them disgusting for that, because we don't know everything so going by rumors and speculations seems kinda childish. Also i don't really agree that Roberson and Hester "saved" those titles because they were still pretty mediocre compared to everything else at that time.