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- From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
- Subject: Re: Vertigo Preview
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:07:32 GMT
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- Robert Kelly writes:
- >in short: the Veritgo Preveiw is worth 75 cents.
- Damn Straight! I am recommending this for all my friends who have
- been considering the (now)Vertigo books. Unfortunately, you can't
- always get that much from two page excerpts, and some of these clips
- are VERY cryptic.
-
- >Dani writes:
-
- >>Death: A three-issue miniseries. Don't miss this. The art is
- >>attractive, if crowded, the scripting is pure Gaiman, and Death
- >>is acting in character.
- >I think the woman (?) killing the pigeon is Mad Hettie a la John
- >Constantine. I think she wants to die or to kill Death. Looks good.
- Yes, that's Mad Hettie, and the boy is someone Death met in a garbage
- dump. The first panel with her refers to the cover story someone else
- gave Sexton. Incidentally, the coloring on this one really impresses
- me. It brings back the pale, but not chalky, complexion from her
- first appearance.
-
- >>Mercy: A graphic novel about "...a spiritual entity called Mercy,
- >>and...her impact on three very different lives". Splash pages don't
- >>make good preview material; I haven't a clue what to make of this, either.
- >I don't think these were splash pages... I think that is the entire
- >way the book is going to be done... bold, I must admit, but we'll see.
- >Good art. What else has JM DeMatteis done? I can't remember.
- Sounds similar to the Endless concept. JM wrote the dialog for the
- earliest issues of JL/JLI, and I think he's also doing a Spider-title.
-
- >>All told, we can expect Vertigo to send up a fair number of trial
- >>balloons over the next year or so.
- >AGREED.. I just wish VERTIGO would do things more like Big Numbers and
- >Cages rather than staying with the 8 1/2 x 11 format... they could really do
- >lot more.
- Well, Mercy will be a GN. They're doing a lot of experimentation
- here, and if they want people to pick these up, a higher price would
- be prohibitive.
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