What are Vertigo's best series?

#1 Posted by carnivalofsins00 (938 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

I'm currently finishing up volume 9 of Scalped, and I'm loving it, and I seem to enjoy a lot of what Vertigo puts out. So I was wondering, what are some of the best books to come out of Vertigo?

#2 Posted by Hatutzeraze (268 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

There's a pretty obvious list.

Sandman, Swamp Thing, Transmetropolitan, Preacher, Invisibles, Fables, and 100 Bullets are the most likely to be mentioned.

Others may mention Morrison's Animal Man and Doom Patrol, but I don't even think those comics became Vertigo comics until after Morrison left, so their actual Vertigo runs are not as classic as their regular DCUniverse years.

I love that you mentioned Scalped. I believe it belongs up there with the best of them.

#3 Posted by davelecave (1112 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

Y: The Last Man

#4 Posted by carnivalofsins00 (938 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

@Hatutzeraze: Fables I like up until the whole wrap up with the Adversarie. After that, it didn't interest me.

#5 Edited by Billy Batson (54326 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

Most of the long running series.

100 Bullets
DMZ
Hellblazer
Human Target
The Losers
Lucifer
Northlanders
Preacher
The Sandman
Sandman Mystery Theatre
Scalped
Shade, the Changing Man
Swamp Thing
Sweet Tooth
Transmetropolitan
Unknown Soldier
The Unwritten
Y: The Last Man

There's bunch of great minis and OGNs as well.
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#6 Posted by Crash_Recovery (792 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

I guess it depends on your interests, really.

Do you prefer more gritty, realistic stuff like Scalped or are you open to more fantastical stuff?

Human Target and The Losers, as well as DMZ could be good things to check out if you're really into that gritty stuff.

I also can't recommend highly enough, The Unwritten, Fables and Sandman.

#7 Edited by Illuminatus (9302 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

As always, Batson nailed it.

#8 Posted by TheGoldenOne (38596 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

What Billy said.

#9 Posted by pikahyper (6622 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

A lot of good stuff missing from the lists above like Outlaw Nation, Greek Street, Testament, Cruel and Unusual, Madame Xanadu, American Vampire, The Filth, Vertigo Pop! (all of them), Muktuk Wolfsbreath and the Adventures in the Rifle Brigade.

And people tend to forget that Transmetropolitan didn't start out as a Vertigo title, it was Helix first which had some incredible comics that were very much in the Vertigo style (just mainly sci-fi oriented) like Bloody Mary, Cyberella, Dead Corpse and Gemini Blood. If you can find any Helix comics they would probably be dirt cheap and shouldn't be missed.

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#10 Posted by MadeinBangladesh (2238 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

Y THe Last Man V for Vendetta

#11 Edited by kuonphobos (3166 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

You would be doing quite well if Vertigo was the only company you were reading in my opinion.

Well that, Avatar and Image's the WD. =)

#12 Posted by Ferdelance (2319 posts) - 7 months, 24 days ago - Show Bio

Lucifer

Vertigo

Vertigo is an imprint of DC Comics suggested for mature readers and is a continuity separate from the DC Universe that has included Sandman, Swamp Thing, John Constantine (Hellblazer) and many others. However, nowadays the imprint is mostly focused upon creator-owned material.

Most of the long running series.

There's bunch of great minis and OGNs as well.
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What are Vertigo's best series?

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