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| − | '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_Comics Vertigo]''' is DC Comics's mature readers [[imprint]], launched in 1993, shuttered in 2020, and reopened in 2024. It was highly influential on the early LNH, especially the [[Net.Trenchcoat Brigade]]. | + | '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_Comics Vertigo Comics]''' is DC Comics's mature readers [[imprint]], launched in 1993, shuttered in 2020, and reopened in 2024. It was highly influential on the early LNH, especially the [[Net.Trenchcoat Brigade]]. |
== Relevant History == | == Relevant History == | ||
| − | Starting with Alan Moore's 1986 run on ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Thing Swamp Thing]'', DC began publishing an increasing number of urban fantasy series loosely connected to the superhero world, including [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Man_(comic_book) Animal Man]'' and ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_Patrol Doom Patrol]'', Neil Gaiman's ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(comic_book) The Sandman]'', and Jamie Delano's ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellblazer Hellblazer]'', under the editorship of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Berger]. In March of 1993, these were grouped together and relaunched under the Vertigo Comics imprint. | + | Starting with Alan Moore's 1986 run on ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Thing Swamp Thing]'', DC began publishing an increasing number of urban fantasy series loosely connected to the superhero world, including [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Man_(comic_book) Animal Man]'' and ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_Patrol Doom Patrol]'', Neil Gaiman's ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(comic_book) The Sandman]'', and Jamie Delano's ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellblazer Hellblazer]'', under the editorship of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Berger Karen Berger]. In March of 1993, these were grouped together and relaunched under the Vertigo Comics imprint. |
Even before the imprint was established, the LNH was being influenced by these types of comics; for instance, they were the kind [[Comics Snob Boy]] tended to like. A few months after the launch, a thread of [[alt.comics.lnh]] and [[rec.arts.comics.misc]] posters assuming Vertigo-esque personas lead to ''[[Wrath of the Administrator]]'' and the beginning of the [[Net.Trenchcoat Brigade]]. [[Acraphobe]] was created as the LNH's mature readers label, in homage to Vertigo. [[Kid Anarky]] was created in response to series that had been moved to Vertigo becoming darker. But it was [[Paul Hardy]] who, perhaps, most fully embraced the Vertigo tone and ethos in ''[[Legion of Occult Heroes]]'', showing the interactions between these dark, fraught concepts and the adventurous, heroic characters who faced them. | Even before the imprint was established, the LNH was being influenced by these types of comics; for instance, they were the kind [[Comics Snob Boy]] tended to like. A few months after the launch, a thread of [[alt.comics.lnh]] and [[rec.arts.comics.misc]] posters assuming Vertigo-esque personas lead to ''[[Wrath of the Administrator]]'' and the beginning of the [[Net.Trenchcoat Brigade]]. [[Acraphobe]] was created as the LNH's mature readers label, in homage to Vertigo. [[Kid Anarky]] was created in response to series that had been moved to Vertigo becoming darker. But it was [[Paul Hardy]] who, perhaps, most fully embraced the Vertigo tone and ethos in ''[[Legion of Occult Heroes]]'', showing the interactions between these dark, fraught concepts and the adventurous, heroic characters who faced them. | ||
Latest revision as of 05:04, 2 July 2025
Vertigo Comics is DC Comics's mature readers imprint, launched in 1993, shuttered in 2020, and reopened in 2024. It was highly influential on the early LNH, especially the Net.Trenchcoat Brigade.
Relevant History
Starting with Alan Moore's 1986 run on Swamp Thing, DC began publishing an increasing number of urban fantasy series loosely connected to the superhero world, including Grant Morrison's Animal Man and Doom Patrol, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, and Jamie Delano's Hellblazer, under the editorship of Karen Berger. In March of 1993, these were grouped together and relaunched under the Vertigo Comics imprint.
Even before the imprint was established, the LNH was being influenced by these types of comics; for instance, they were the kind Comics Snob Boy tended to like. A few months after the launch, a thread of alt.comics.lnh and rec.arts.comics.misc posters assuming Vertigo-esque personas lead to Wrath of the Administrator and the beginning of the Net.Trenchcoat Brigade. Acraphobe was created as the LNH's mature readers label, in homage to Vertigo. Kid Anarky was created in response to series that had been moved to Vertigo becoming darker. But it was Paul Hardy who, perhaps, most fully embraced the Vertigo tone and ethos in Legion of Occult Heroes, showing the interactions between these dark, fraught concepts and the adventurous, heroic characters who faced them.
Vertigo eventually moved away from superhero-urban-fantasy, publishing many well-regarded creator-owned series. But references to it as a concept usually point back to that focus on the strange, dark, and mystical.
