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Brian Wood's next project, Fight For Tomorrow, is coming out via Vertigo? That's some kind of modern day kung-fu/crime story set in New York's Chinatown. That, together with 100%, gives me the hope that at least somebody over at Vertigo is trying to push things in the right direction (and obviously, The Filth is a big coup, and any more work via Morrison, or indeed the newly DC-friendly Warren Ellis, will probably be worth a look).
Fables strikes me as exactly the kind of book they should *not* be doing, I have to say, although obviously that's judging it before I've read an issue - but the very premise sounds like a parody of what used to be, and still often is, typical Vertigo fare. The same basically goes for Midnight, Mass - although I thought there was hope for this one, a scan of the first issue proved my more cynical instincts right.
Judd Winnick is doing something with vampires in it for them, called Blood and Water - this, much like Y-Last Man, I feel, could go either way. And Joe Casey is writing an "X-Files meets James Bond" (er...) thing for them called The Darwin Theory - nice title, but Casey is a very variable prospect....
I just wish they had the nerve to go with more stuff that doesn't have any sci-fi or fantasy element to it. Realise that despite some old-school former Vertigo fans not liking 100 Bullets, that realise is their best title at the moment and should be their 'flagship' title, and push for more stuff that shares some of that book's qualities. Look at what Oni are doing right, learn from them. |
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