#Vertigo comics series#
#Vertigo comics crack#

With a bullet! And even when, the last few years, they lost the #1 spot to Scholastic, they were still majorly, significantly always at least #2.Ģ018 is pretty ugly in the book stores for DC – they haven’t had this tragic of a performance since 2005. For the first decade-plus I have been doing these charts, DC’s attention to backlist had naturally rendered them the #1 publisher…. Our #8 publisher in the Top 750 is DC Entertainment. It was a very, very long piece so you may have missed this:

In fact, there could be some huge ones yet to come.īegin the speculation: Let’s back up a minute to the Bookscan report Brian Hibbs wrote up a few weeks back. But I’m also told that could change. I’m also hearing that the layoffs at DC are not over.

#Vertigo comics series#

What I’m hearing (which is subject to change) is that the Vertigo brand – which was to have seen a big relaunch at San Diego, the latest in a long series of relaunches – will be put on hiatus and projects shifted to Black Label. In fact, there’s a lot of confusion over exactly what is happening. However, I’m told by various insiders that the story is not as cut and dried as rumors make it out to be. So amidst all that, the idea that Vertigo would be shut down is not as shocking as it once might have been – but it’s still an emotional stunner given the impact Vertigo has had on comics and culture at large. However I’m told all “adult” content is being heavily scrutinized and in many cases PG-ified. Meanwhile, DC has been pumping energy into its kids links Zoom and Ink, including panels at BookCon and even a first ever booth at Book Expo America.ĭespite the penis problems, Black Label seems to have scraped by, as its own BookCon panel revealed.

#Vertigo comics crack#

A book with controversial religious themes, Second Coming, was cancelled entirely (and picked up by Ahoy Comics.) I’m told that the announced book Safe Sex by Tina Horn and Mike Dowling has content that is just not publishable under the current crack down on adult content. Allegations of sexual misconduct against Eric Esquivel left the last two issues of Border Town unpublished. So far we’ve seen the Bat-Dingus crisis that saw the whole adult-oriented Black Label imprint almost killed completely a wholesale reorganization with three VPs laid off a reduction in the publishing line and most recently, Tom King’s long brewing plans for Batman suddenly becoming too hot to handle.Īnd over at Vertigo, it was one problem after another with the latest relaunch. While shocking, this news was still not exactly surprising given all the upheaval that DC has undergone in recent months. Yesterday the comics world was rocked by a purportedly well sourced rumour that DC would be shutting down its Vertigo imprint after 26 years of publishing some of the medium’s most beloved titles and generally making comics a better, smarter place. Hellblazer didn’t start out at Vertigo, but it symbolized the imprint.