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Now I'm going to have to hunt down Wasteland for the Close material. Did he write anything else for comics?
I was quite enamored of Ed Brubaker & Warren Pleece's Deadenders; wonderful commentary about class and The Rapture and things of that sort. The characters were vicious little sots but endearing in their way.
I also dug Steve Gerber's Nevada, which was surreal ridiculousness with a dash of ontology. All you have to really know is that the protagonist is a Las Vegas showgirl with an ostrich sidekick, and one of the villains has a lava lamp for a head. Yeah.
20/20 Visions is wizard stuff, and thankfully it was just reprinted. Good early Steve Pugh and Quitely, and you don't go wrong with Jamie Delano.
I'd like to see a reprint of Chiaroscuro (sp?), which is a miniseries biography of Leonardo daVinci, mostly told from the perspective of his apprentice/lover. Beautiful stuff right there.
Rogan Gosh was already mentioned, but it's really essential reading. It's like a lovely little acid trip whenever you want one. I do so wish Brendan McCarthy would come back to comics.
It's not Vertigo per se, but since the only survivor of the Helix imprint was Transmetropolitan I'll consider this series as unofficial canon: Veridian, a very strange, otherworldly series, somewhere between fantasy and sci-fi. I've not read my issues in some time so I can't really summarize it, but I'm not entirely certain that if I had that I could anyway.
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