Deathbed
Joshua Williamson, writer; Riley Rossmo, artist; Ivan Plascencia, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2018
Vertigo miniseries tend to have a fairly deliberate pacing, and employ various blends of fantasy, horror and realism. This one is completely off t
Read more…New Romancer
Peter Milligan, writer; Brett Parson, artist; Brian Miller, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Alexia Ryan is a young computer genius with a fixation on classic authors, especially Lord Bryon and his romance poetry. She is working on a dating
Read more…Black Hammer '45
Jeff Lemire & Ray Fawkes, story; Ray Fawkes, script; Matt Kindt, artist; Sharlene Kindt, colorist; Marie Enger, letterer
Dark Horse Books, 2019
Yet another cool corner of the Black Hammer universe: the World War II era Black Hammer Sq
Read more…They Called Us Enemy
George Takei, Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott, writers; Harmony Becker, artist
Top Shelf Productions, 2019
Actor/activist George Takei has been speaking in public about his Japanese American family's experience in internment camps
Read more…Effigy: Idle Worship
Tim Seeley, writer; Marley Zarcone, Jesse Hamm, Jen Vaughn, Mike Norton: art; Ryan Hill, color
Vertigo Comics, 2015
Great concept behind this series: a child star named Chondra Jackson who played a space cop on the kids' TV show S
Read more…Building Stories
Chris Ware
Pantheon, 2012
Reading Ware's Rusty Brown recently reminded me that I had never gotten around to Building Stories. Physically it's like the anti-library book: a box containing fourteen printed works in various sizes, shapes
Read more…Snow, Glass, Apples
Neil Gaiman, stories & words; Colleen Doran, adaptation & art
Dark Horse Books, 2019
Dark Horse has published a number of graphic adaptations of Neil Gaiman's short stories, featuring artists like John Bolton, P. Craig Russell, M
Read more…The Weatherman Vol. 2
Jody LeHeup, writer; Nathan Fox, artist; Moreno Dinisio, colorist
Image Comics, 2020
The first volume featured Martian weatherman Nathan Bright's life being turned upside-down. He had been a wise-cracking, devil-may-care guy: now
Read more…The Dark & Bloody
Shawn Aldridge, writer; Scott Godlewski, artist; Patricia Mulvihill, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Iris Gentry is an Iraq war veteran, returned to his home in rural Kentucky. It's a dry county, so he pursues the family business of bo
Read more…The Names
Peter Milligan, script; Leandro Fernández, art; Cris Peter, color
Vertigo Comics, 2015
The Names was a nine-part miniseries consisting of three three-issue story arcs. The story opens with a moment of crisis, as an investment banker named K
Read more…Blackbird Vol. 1: The Great Beast
Sam Humphries, writer; Jen Bartel, artist; Paul Reinwand, layout artist; Triona Farrell, colorist; Jodi Wynne, letterer; Dylan Todd, designer; Jim Gibbons, editor
Image Comics, 2019
You can see that this is a Young Ad
Read more…Die Vol. 2: Split the Party
Kieron Gillen, writer; Stephanie Hans, artist; Clayton Cowles, letterer
Image Comics, 2020
The second installment finds the group still stuck in the DIE world. As the title says, they have split up: this is never recommende
Read more…High Level
Rob Sheridan, story; Barnaby Bagenda, artist; Romulo Fajardo Jr., colorist
DC Vertigo, 2020
High Level is set in a world hundreds of years after the big apocalyptic event (no dates are given), with the motto"Welcome to the Post-Post-Apocaly
Read more…Jacked
Eric Kripke, writer; John Higgins, artist; John Higgins & SotoColor, colorists
Vertigo Comics, 2016
For writer Eric Kripke (creator of the TV series Supernatural) this was his writing debut for comics. But he had two of Vertigo's old hands on a
Read more…Curse Words Vol. 5: Fairy-Tale Ending
Charles Soule, writer; Ryan Browne, artist
Image Comics, 2020
Curse Words has always been an unpredictable fantasy story, and that continues to be true for the finale. The path to the fairy-tale ending is jagged,
Read more…Skyward Vol. 3: Fix The World
Joe Henderson, writer; Lee Garbett, art & cover; Antonio Fabela, colorist; Simon Bowland, letterer
Image Comics, 2019
This collection completes the series, which was always intended to be told in three five-issue story arc
Read more…Doctor Star And The Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows
Jeff Lemire, writer; Max Fiumara, artist; Dave Stewart, colorist; Nate Piekos, letterer
Dark Horse Books, 2018
Another winner from the Black Hammer universe, a four-issue miniseries that is almost complete
Read more…Days of Hate: Act Two
Aleš Kot, writer; Danijel Žeželj, drawing; Jordie Bellaire, colors; Aditya Bidikar, letters; Tom Muller, design
Image Comics, 2019
The publisher's blurb for this just says "Endgame," while the back cover has the description "The f
Read more…Survivors' Club
Lauren Beukes & Dale Halverson, writers; Ryan Kelly, artist; Eva de la Cruz, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Bad things happened to a lot of children in 1987. Out of a long list of names found on the Internet, only six are not missing or
Read more…Last Gang in Town
Simon Oliver, writer; Rufus Dayglo, artist; Giulia Brusco, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2016
The main action in this miniseries takes place in London, in 1977. It's the era of punk rock, and the opening scene finds a trio of punks rippin
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