Hellblazer Cancelled?

[LooneyKoala]

Har!


-Jamie Delano

Haha!

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[LooneyKoala]

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/indu...ncelation.html

[Enormouse]

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/indu...ncelation.html

Hadn't read the bit from Alonso. If I recall, he and Didio were both editors on it for a time.

[Billy Batson]

Don't remember DiDio ever being an editor of Hellblazer.

[Enormouse]

Don't remember DiDio ever being an editor of Hellblazer.

Sorry. You're right. I read it wrong. He was VP editorial around the time of Haunted.

[dancj]

No unfortunately about it. Wheeler and Collins' work on the character was near unreadable.

Collins's run way okay - if unspectacular. 'Unreadable' is about right for Wheeler though. The worst comic I've ever read.

Even Veitch, for all the praise he gets, was just horribly mediocre I thought.

At its worst it was mediocre, but there was a lot of good stuff in there too. The Wild Thing story was great and the interactions with DCU characters like Superman, Batman and Guy Gardner were great. It was the jumping backward through time storyline that lost me.

Diggle's run was fun, and brought it back to the mainstream

I thought Diggle's run was very poor - and Dysart's was worse. Loved the art though.

[Predator jp]

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/indu...ncelation.html

Brian Wood
"Ugh! [in reply to Ellis]" "Seems very likely if I had launched The Massive at Vertigo as originally conceived, they would have cancelled it by now."

wow, sounds like he really hate DC.

[Billy Batson]

Brian Wood
"Ugh! [in reply to Ellis]" "Seems very likely if I had launched The Massive at Vertigo as originally conceived, they would have cancelled it by now."

wow, sounds like he really hate DC.

When I asked him some months ago why isn't he working at DC/Vertigo now, he said they didn't want him (he'd be working there otherwise) and they didn't want him to make Northlanders into a TV show...so yeah LOL.

[Mr. Holmes]

lol Why would they be against adapting their own property into TV...

Yeah sometimes I'll never understand this company.

[nightwing1982]

Brian Wood
"Ugh! [in reply to Ellis]" "Seems very likely if I had launched The Massive at Vertigo as originally conceived, they would have cancelled it by now."

wow, sounds like he really hate DC.

It just boils to the lack of creator rights and NEW concepts and better story telling.

And lets face it, DiDio and Lee are micromanaging the company (very badly).

[Mr. Holmes]

DiDio and Lee don't micromanage Vertigo.

[Darrell D.]

It just boils to the lack of creator rights and NEW concepts and better story telling.

And lets face it, DiDio and Lee are micromanaging the company (very badly).

I don't think it was Didio and Lee doing anything with Vertigo.
The contracts are pretty loose and free with the term 'creator-owned', and most creators tend to stay away since they can get more creator friendly deals at other companies.

[Superdog]

Karen Berger is still the Vertigo editor I believe. I usually hear creators say pretty nice things about her.

[Libaax]

Karen Berger is still the Vertigo editor I believe. I usually hear creators say pretty nice things about her.

What people say in the public about someone they worked with and what they say in off the record talks with friends,coworkers are different things. Berger isnt suppose to be a friend of the creators, she decides what they make and dont make in Vertigo comics.

There must be a reason longtime creators in Vertigo is going to Image/Dark Horse. They cant all be unwanted, they must be getting better deals from other publishers with their creator owned works.

Vertigo is still a part of DC and its not a imprint creating many new comics like before.

[Vidocq]

What people say in the public about someone they worked with and what they say in off the record talks with friends,coworkers are different things. Berger isnt suppose to be a friend of the creators, she decides what they make and dont make in Vertigo comics.

There must be a reason longtime creators in Vertigo is going to Image/Dark Horse. They cant all be unwanted, they must be getting better deals from other publishers with their creator owned works.

Vertigo is still a part of DC and its not a imprint creating many new comics like before.

Probably because signing with Vertigo means that you can only pitch for a TV Show or Film with WB. And if they say no then that's it, you don't have a TV Show. Had The Walking Dead been Vertigo then there wouldn't be a TV Show and the spike in sales it brought.