Next Up: Vertigo 1993
Added 2023-08-23 11:20:21 +0000 UTCThis week was a script heavy week for me. I worked on three scripts at the same time and was very unsure what I wanted to do next. The winner was a review of all the miniseries published by Vertigo Comics in 1993. I thought it would be a good comparison to the Black Label titles I've done.
In the works is a complete, page one, word one rewrite of the origin and history of Vertigo. It is much longer and far more detailed than the previous video about the imprint. It's something I did in the very early days of the channel and I was never satisfied with it. So, despite being a remake, it's is literally nothing like the original. Hopefully, that will be next week's video.
Finally, I started my long promised Steve Gerber retrospective script. Although, I think I will focus on his Marvel years first, then do a follow-up video about everything after. Honestly, nothing is set in stone about this one. It's a lot of reading and research. So this may end up being delayed even further. But I am working on it every day.
So that's it for now! I've a lot of work to do over the next few days. Have a good one, everyone!
Comments
I think the Vertigo 1993 video was good. The only books I have read are Death: The High Cost of Living and Jonah Hex Two Gun Mojo. And both was years after 1993. I was 13 in 1993 and mostly stuck with Spiderman and the X-Men. Vertigo would not have been my coup of tea then.
Super Vader
2023-08-28 10:28:35 +0000 UTCMisremembering happens a lot to me! That's why I always check to make sure my memory is correct. :)
Allan Hatt
2023-08-26 18:37:48 +0000 UTCThe Vertigo video was good. I must have been on it back in 1993. I had 4 of the 1993 first issues- and did keep buying some series. That was a better line up than Black Label year one. Interesting to see a similar mix of existing and new DC characters. If I hadn’t watched the video I’d have (mis)remembered they were all new back in 1993.
Philip Mackinnon
2023-08-26 12:33:09 +0000 UTCThat's a pretty good coincidence! Helix will probably get a look at some time. There's just not a lot of information that I've found at this point.
Allan Hatt
2023-08-26 11:20:15 +0000 UTCI just read Tim Truman's The Black Lamb this morning (some YouTube essayist should have a look at the largely forgotten Helix line some time) so hearing your thoughts on his and Lansdale's Jonah Hex was somewhat serendipitous
Alex Kennedy
2023-08-26 01:40:32 +0000 UTCOh, nifty! My reading partner and I were already planning an overview of the Vertigo miniseries and one-shots from their inaugural year once we're through with our Lucifer read. Looking forwards to see this!
Gargus
2023-08-25 04:21:03 +0000 UTCThank you very much! Overall, the one thing I always hoped to project (despite criticism or some negative comments here and there) was that I actually like comic books. So, out of respect for the medium and the creators, I do try to be as accurate as possible. I don't know...I try to uphold a standard, even though I'm not an actual critic, journalist or historian. That doesn't mean I have to be sloppy for the sake of views. :)
Allan Hatt
2023-08-24 21:34:45 +0000 UTCThat makes a lot sense. For what its worth it doesn't present as "I went and read a thing, and here is my book report" it very much presents almost as if you were in the rooms where it happened. If it's not clear that's a compliment. The info feels very...reliable. I appreciate all the effort you put in.
Cory Drew
2023-08-24 21:01:23 +0000 UTC(Heh. Hit return before I was finished. Didn't realize it would post my response.) To continue...when it comes to interpreting elements of the page or story, that I go by what I see and my experience, rather than actual research. Although, for some mystical elements I will look up what certain deities symbolize, for example. That way I'm sure I'm not way off base on something.
Allan Hatt
2023-08-24 20:40:25 +0000 UTCThe short answer is it's a mixture of the two. There's a lot I've picked up through the years and that probably drives my curiosity/interest into a topic or series, but I do a LOT of research and reading to back up any factual claims that I might make.
Allan Hatt
2023-08-24 20:37:08 +0000 UTCLike always, if there's a big response I'm open to continuing with this as a series.
Allan Hatt
2023-08-24 20:35:04 +0000 UTCReally excited for this! A lot of really interesting forgotten stuff from the first few years of Vertigo, hope you make this a series.
CroEYE
2023-08-24 20:19:47 +0000 UTCJust curious, how much of the info that you present is info you've learned from research on the specific item bases on curiousity and how much is documenting information you have collected over the years as a part of the comics community? I have a friend who went to Kubert in the late 80s early 90s and he is like how I assume you are, which is that you know more about all this than I've forgotten! Love the content. Thank you so much.
Cory Drew
2023-08-24 19:19:18 +0000 UTCLooking forward to the Vertigo Comics in 1993 video.
Super Vader
2023-08-24 19:07:11 +0000 UTCI never read Sludge but I did read the first Exiles series from Malibu. It was ok but was mostly there to serve as a prelude to Break-Thru (the Ultraverse first major crossover). I think Malibu comics even went so far that to solicit issues that were never going to be made. Just to keep it a secret that Exiles would end after issue 4. The second Exiles series from Malibu that came out post Black September lacked any direction. And had very little to do with the first series. I just rewatched your video on The Authority (the remake). Has to one of the most passive aggressive youtube video I have ever seen. I know you were really fustrated at the time but still.
Super Vader
2023-08-24 19:06:34 +0000 UTCI remember Gerber's Ultraverse work in the early/mid 90s. He wrote Sludge which was an urban Man thing type character. He also wrote Exiles, but I never read that. He wrote quite a few things for the line along with Barr and Englehart.
LS Greger
2023-08-24 12:22:23 +0000 UTCThat wasn't the only time he did that! The same thing occurred with the Nevada miniseries. Neil Gaiman and others (presumably on the same BBS) asked him to write a story about a page from Howard The Duck #16. So...he did.
Allan Hatt
2023-08-23 12:47:24 +0000 UTCIn the late 1980s, Steve Gerber was a regular participant in the pre-Internet FIDOnet BBS systems. When he wrote She-Hulk for a while after John Byrne left the title, he had a lot of input from the folks on the BBS. One thing I remember was when he took a comment from one of the persons there and made a She-Hulk whole story arc out of it. This was a parody of mega-crossover series called "The Big Squish Principle." Someone had written that phrase on the BBS message board, and Gerber loved it. That one phrase gave him the idea for that whole story arc.
Cast Iron Chaos
2023-08-23 12:13:39 +0000 UTC
