Getting Vertigo

Epic Comics, Icon, Malibu. All attempts to give Marvel what DC has had for decades: a Vertigo.

For those who don’t know, Vertigo is a DC Comics imprint designed to give contracted creators a chance to release creator-owned comics. DC has released some of the best comic books of all time through Vertigo. Preacher. Transmetropolitan. Y: The Last Man. Unfollow.

These are undeniably some of the greatest comics I’ve ever read, and they were all shuffled out of DC through that Vertigo imprint. Said imprint was also used for books like Sandman, Swamp-Thing, and Hellblazer, which used DC Universe characters in darker, more mature stories.

I love Marvel Comics. I love Marvel SO much, but they’ve never had that. They tried fairly recently with Icon, and the most notable book to come out of that was Kick-Ass, which is…uh…literally as far from Sandman as you can possibly get.