Vertigo

I was right there when the Turtles broke big and those indie black and white books.

And then the Vertigo boom, I was there for that.

And then the manga boom, the initial manga boom.

So I've written out all those kinds of amazing waves of comic collecting and obsession, but But so to me, in order to break into comics, especially somewhere like Marvel, I was still under the impression of the bullpen, you know, the New York, you had to be in New York, or you had to be maybe in LA, or you had to be brilliant and British.

Don't miss this one.

Next up, Black Tower, The Raven Conspiracy, number three from DC Vertigo, written by Rom V, art by Mike Perkins.

This takes place, we've said this pitch a million times, but it's basically slow horses with magic.

We're following a bunch of folks that are investigating a mystery.

Howdy, howdy, how.

And joining Drew is his collaborator on the Texas horror comic The Matron, a comic book writer and illustrator that has worked with Dark Horse, Vertigo, Oni Press, and Webtoon.

best known for the series Assassin Roommate, which is coming out in print next year.

And boo, it's sex.

The way this got introduced to us was by Joe reading Hotel and then raving about it.

Us then having Axel Alonso, formerly of Marvel and Vertigo and currently the head over at AWA Studios, then telling us – Sync is how we found out about John Lee's.

And then Joe – excuse me, went and read it and then did a mainline episode.

So if you want some spoiler free stuff, go back and listen in the archives to episode 70 of TLDR.

Those are from Image, Oni, and Image, respectively.

also worth pointing out is we, we have the collection of the parallel of real dark and Ezra Cain mystery from Condon and Phillips at DC Vertigo.

And, uh, you have killed me from Joel Jones and Jamie S.

Rich, which are, they're just, they, they do such amazing work together.

It was good.

Anything...

Vertigo is putting out such good stuff, so you could have picked that, and it would have been great, the Ezra Kane mystery.

They are absolutely living up to...

And so they need to figure out a better system to funnel those people in.

I think – Vertigo was potentially an attempt to like, okay, let's get an audience that digs that kind of environment and that kind of storytelling and art.

All the people that are in Absolute right now, let's spread the line out a little bit to keep their interest within here, test things, do different things within it.

I really think they're biding their time for that crossover, and they would really need to make it meaningful so that people can start to be like, oh my god, I just read this stuff for Absolute.

I think Next Level is a good example of just don't ride on those laurels.

They are trying to do something different.

Oh, we got Vertigo back in the mix.

They're trying to push that as well.

That's just not what we're going to do.

We're more classically aligned with like an EC Comics or a Vertigo, something like that.

That doesn't mean that that sort of thing couldn't happen, but it won't be a traditional way that you're thinking of.

No, I got you.