Hellblazer
Robot reviews: Vertigo Crime
Filthy Rich
Filthy Rich
by Brian Azzarello and Victor Santos
Vertigo, 200 pages, $19.99
Dark Entries
by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell’edera
Vertigo, 216 pages, $19.99.
You’ve gotta give DC credit, they’re constantly trying new things. Sure, a lot of their publishing experiments embarrassingly fall on the floor, but the very fact that they have such a lengthy track record of failed imprints — Minx, Helix, Piranha, Paradox Press — says something about the company’s willingness to branch out. They’re restless in their attempt to find new audiences.
Thus we now have Vertigo Crime, a sub-imprint of the current Vertigo line, consisting of stand-alone graphic novels filled with guns, girls and as much noir as you can possibly stand. The first two entries in the line — Filthy Rich and Dark Entries — will be out in stores this month (Aug. 19 and 25 to be exact). How do they hold up? Read on to find out.
Vertigo announces I, Zombie + Halloween annual
House of Mystery
Vertigo today announced a new series called I, Zombie by author Chris Roberson and Mike Allred.
Although a link between the two isn’t mentioned, I’m guessing the title is a subtle homage to the J.M. DeMatteis-written I … Vampire series that ran in House of Mystery back in the 1980s.
So what better place to kick it off than in the current House of Mystery — or, rather in a Halloween annual that will include a House of Mystery framing sequence and new Hellblazer, Madame Xanadu, Merv Pumpkinhead and I, Zombie stories.
Process: Jock’s cover layouts for Hellblazer graphic novel
Cover layout for "Hellblazer: Pandemonium," by Jock
At Standard Attrition, artist Jock rolls out some of his cover layouts for Hellblazer: Pandemonium, the upcoming graphic novel by he and original series writer Jamie Delano. (The book was supposed to be released last year to celebrate the 20th anniversay of the title; now it seems scheduled for later this year.)
Pandemonium is set during the Iraq war, as Constantine is hired to root out the cause of demonic possessions among insurgents.