Hey, guys, here's a thread to discuss the books that have come out new from Vertigo since earlier this month with the big attempt at a comeback for the mature readers imprint. Let's see how it goes.
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To get things going here, I will give some commentary on two titles I read this afternoon.
Clean Room #1: Gail Simone and Jon Davis-Hunt. First of all, the artwork here looks like a mainline DC book. I'm not complaining at all, it's just that there is nothing really to differentiate this from a regular DC book except for the horrific events within the pages. I thought this was pretty good. A young girl from Germany is confronted by something horrible during an accident, and then we go further into the future where a reporter wants to get to what her story is. I'll be interested to see what others think.
The Twilight Children #1: This one comes from Gilbert Hernandez and Darwyn Cooke. It takes place in a little tiny beach town, where strange glowing orbs have been appearing. Some kids get a little too curious about one of the orbs, and they face the harsh results. I loved how human this one felt. You really get a good sense of these being real people. The artwork, of course, is beautiful. It's great to see Cooke on a book that takes place in the present.
There's a book called Op Arts coming out Oct. 28.
Yeah, I will most likely skip that one. Mike Allred's art isn't to my taste. I know that's sacrilege, but it's true. I have to say that a book about pop art would be very appropriate for his work.
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I picked up Art Ops. It's fun -- on first impression, there's a lot of Morrison's Doom Patrol/Brotherhood of Dada in its DNA. I'll be giving it a few issues, definitely. Though I'm not sure how Allred is going to be able to do this book and the rebooted Silver Surfer series.
Silver Surfer was constantly late, and I assumed it was due to Allred. Was it not? Because if he couldn't handle one monthly book, he sure can't handle two! Maybe Surfer was late for some other reason. Anyone know?
Coming up from Vertigo Nov. 4: Unfollow #1.
A lot of Marvel books were late because they were holding off on developments in Secret Wars. I'm not sure if that's entirely the case with Silver Surfer, but that's likely some of it in these last few issues. And with Spider-Man, I imagine Dan Slott is really busy, and Marvel would want him to make that the priority over Surfer. So it might not be entirely Allred's fault -- especially since there've never been any guest artists on Surfer, as far as I can recall. But that's just speculation.
Allred never stood out to me as a particularly slow artist before.
Unfollow is a book my retailer has been talking up, but I'm not entirely sold yet. 140 strangers are named in a billionaire's will, and his fortune will be divided among the survivors at the time he croaks. Sounds more like the premise of a TV show than a comic to me. The creators aren't familiar to me, but here's an interview.
I read the Wolf Moon trade on Saturday while working at my LCS. It collected the 6 issue miniseries. It is a werewolf story that brought enough new elements to the table that I thought made it really good. I think Cullen Bunn and Jeremy Haun did a great job of really showing how terrifying a werewolf is. Definitely worth checking out.