What are your top 5 favorite Vertigo comics (including pre-Vertigo titles)?
Mine are:
>Saga of the Swamp Thing (Moore)
>Preacher
>Daytripper
>Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery
>Sandman Mystery Theatre
Vertigo Comics
What are your top 5 favorite Vertigo comics (including pre-Vertigo titles)?
Mine are:
>Saga of the Swamp Thing (Moore)
>Preacher
>Daytripper
>Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery
>Sandman Mystery Theatre
Enigma
Doom Patrol
Sandman
Delano Hellblazer
Saga of The Swamp Thing
Shade The Changing Man
Flex Mentallo
The Unwritten
Morrison Animal Man
The Extremist
Top 5, man.
I couldn't just stop at 5.
That's the point. You have to choose 5.
So you stop at 5. I named 6-10 too because I just couldn't leave Shade off but I couldn't bump Swamp Thing down either.
Again, that's the whole point. It's a simple restriction to make you think about your choices.
Man, Vertigo published so many great comics in the 90s and early 00s. They ate the reason why I'm somewhat of an apologist for the 1990s.
I'm planning on going on a big re-read of the Sandman series, including not just the Gaiman written comics, but the all original spinoffs like Mystery Theatre, Lucifer, the Dreaming, House of Mystery etc.
I'm going to ignore the Sandman Universe Imprint because that's a reboot that I've been told ignores all the old spinoffs, and with The Sandman being so quintessentially 90s, I'm not sure that they can capture that old Vertigo feel.
The Spurrier Dreaming series was actually good, you should include that in your big re-read.
I'll check out the Sandman Universe stuff some other time. I've heard good things for sure, but it's a soft reboot that ignores all the comics not written by Gaiman. I definitely understand the logic. 90% of Samdman fans have never read any of the spin off titles, but from a hardcore fan's perspective it's a turnoff.
I'll read the Sandman Locke and Key crossover because that takes place in the time where Dream was captured by Burges, so it shouldn't contradict anything.
>so it shouldn't contradict anything.
On the contrary. It's not gonna contradict anything if it's a continuation from where we left off but if it takes place in the past there's a higher chance it will contradict something.
Yeah, you're right. What I meant is that it doesn't seem too connected to the other Sandman Universe titles, so it should fit better with the older spin off comics.
I'll have to wait and see if it contradicts anything.
I decided to pick just one work per creator, because my first list was all Grant Morrison comics.
Young Liars
Sandman
The Invisibles
Transmetropolitan
Hellblazer
Feels basic besides the Lapham book, but the big names were big for a reason.
What's your favorite run on Hellblazer?
Garth Ennis, but it could be the nostalgia talking. I haven't read it in 20 years.
Young Liars
The Invisibles
The Filth
Doom Patrol
Animal Man
I'm a total simp for Morrison comics.
I like The Invisibles and The Filth, but not his other two. I'd probably swap out Sandman Mystery Theatre for The Filth on my list.
Whichever was the story where John gathers the gang with the intent of slaying the Beast. The character cameos were unreal.
I loved Lucifer. His single-minded focus felt alien, which is what you'd expect of a being like that. Like pic related he was perfectly fair, which as it turns out feels entirely inhuman. And I liked the fact his driving motivation was to be left alone, which nobody obliged.
I thought there was something incredibly beautiful about the fact he rested on the 7th day. That he an Maz had a day together as if these immortal beings never actually get to rest and sitting down and having a picnic was an incredibly rare thing for both of them. I felt like a free lunch, like gratitude, was something he said he would never give her in return for her service so this one day he says they're going to chill and it must mean the world to both of them. And it's echoed in the end.
Forgot picture
What's your first list?
1. Sandman
2. Enigma
3. Moonshadow
4. Swamp Thing
5. Heavy Liquid
I couldn’t name 5 most of them are absolutely terrible.
The one by Hernandez and Cooke was solid though. Moon kids or something.
Twilight children was the name
The Twilight Children is one of the worst Vertigo comics I've finished. Two legends got together and made a turd.
Lol you must not read many vertigo comics. They’re 90 percent unreadable dogshit made for 13 year olds who listen to Staind
Most of the ones I finished were good.
Ongoings:
Sandman
Invisibles
Preacher
John Ney Rieber's Books of Magic
100 Bullets
Miniseries:
Enigma
Sandman Overture
Chiaroscuro The Privates Lives of Leonardo Da Vinci
Sebastian O
Death The Time of Your Life
>Chiaroscuro The Privates Lives of Leonardo Da Vinci
Hadn't heard about this one.
Yeah, I've never heard anyone talk about it before, but I loved it. Maybe my favorite historical comic of all time.
Neither have I but I've seen it on wiki sites. Interesting that
has read it
Hellblazer stopped being peak when they moved it to Vertigo.
I didn't like the Ennis run, changed John into a pseudo superhero and then Ellis takes it even further and he's basically a superhero.
Sandman Mystery Theatre > Hellblazer > Lucifer > Morrison's DP > Sandman
I respect your boldness. What turned me off Lucifer
a) Mike Carey writes him as far more cruel than Gaiman did in Sandman
b) I'm not a fan of Peter Gross' art. His characters look inbred to me. What I think they should have done was have really great artists draw one story arc each, just like Gaiman's Sandman did.
I just ordered all 11 of the trade paperbacks, so I'm going to give Lucifer a second chance. I'll think I'll probably like it a lot more now that I'm older.
>have really great artists draw one story arc each, just like Gaiman's Sandman did.
Didn't happen.
>Collen Dora, Michael Zulli, Jill Thompson, P. Craig Russell and Bryan Talbot are not great artists
Opinion discarded.
>listing names of artists that mostly drew only a couple of issues
Exactly.
Exactly what, idiot? You said it didn't happen.
You left out a bulk of the art.
Nta but my problem with Lucifer is that it gets really "action fantasy" in the second half. I think Carey got Lucifer's personality down right and his characterization was great. You might remember Gaiman's later usage of Lucifer better because he was pretty cruel at first (and he's not that cruel under Carey).
Gross' pencils might not be the most spectacular but his layouts are really good and he makes the pages really flow well, he's a good storyteller but I can understand not being a big fan of his actual art style.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
Does Death get many leads? I never see any. Is she just to wholesome?
Hellblazer
Lucifer
Preacher
The Filth
Sandman Mystery Theater
wow, you're so unique
Where's your list?
I like the Doom Patrol series but does anyone else feel that Grant Morrison ruined Niles by making him a traitor? Reading the original series and comparing it to his run ruined the family theme vibe even when during that same year of that issues release X-Men released an issue where Xavier turned evil.
No, because he always felt cold, not like a surrogate father and it didn't stick after that anyway. Overall theme of the run isn't family, it's about not fitting in.
V for Vendetta
Flex Mentallo
The Invisibles
The Filth
Preacher
Ongoings:
100 Bullets
Hellblazer
Shade, the Changing Man
Sandman Mystery Theatre
Maybe Lucifer or Human Target
(not counting Moore's Swamp Thing since it predates Vertigo)
Limited:
Enigma/The Face (not sure which one I liked more)
Ennis' War Stories
Mr. Punch
maybe 7 Miles a Second since it's their most daring
Prince of Cats
possibly IncogBlack
>not counting Moore's Swamp Thing since it predates Vertigo
But OP said it's allowed. Besides, you have Hellblazer on there anyway.
My autism doesn't allow it.
Hellblazer as a whole so it I can count it.
Hell yeah.
Why does WB ruin everything anons?