With Y: The Last Man coming to an end soon, everyone is scrambling to identify the next big Vertigo title. The esteemed Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing gushes about DMZ and praises the book as much as you possibly can.
It’s great to see such a tremendous book get the attention it deserves.
Are you reading DMZ? Is it the next flagship title for Vertigo?
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I’m reading it. It is really good. It may indeed be the next flagship title
I love DMZ, but i think Fables is the flagship Vertigo title, if not from a sales standpoint then definately a quality standpoint. And no, i’m not one of those Fables fanatics.
I totally agree. DMZ has been a good read so far, but nothing that rises to the level of Vertigo’s flagship title, which is undoubtedly Fables (for my money the best comic currently being made anywhere).
Are you reading DMZ? Is it the next flagship title for Vertigo?
Umm, I think Fables already fits that bill. It sells more than Y already and in the last couple years I have read more articles and reviews of Fables than Y.
Having said that, DMZ is awesome and it’s probably my 3rd or 4th favorite Vertigo book at the moment (after Fables, Y, and probably 100 Bullets).
If you go by trade paperback sales, which is Vertigo’s bread and butter, Y is Vertigo’s flagship book.
DIAMOND’s TOP 100 GRAPHIC NOVELS of 2006
Based on Actual Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in 2006
Qty Rank: 10
Retail Rank: 14
Y THE LAST MAN VOL 7 PAPER DOLLS TP
Qty Rank: 14
Retail Rank: 19
FABLES VOL 7 ARABIAN NIGHTS & DAYS TP
Qty Rank: 18
Retail Rank: 72
FABLES VOL 1 LEGENDS I/EXILE TP
Qty Rank: 20
Retail Rank: 43
Y THE LAST MAN VOL 1 UNMANNED TP
Qty Rank: 24
Retail: 31
Y THE LAST MAN VOL 8 KIMONO DRAGONS TP
Qty Rank: 27
Retail Rank: 64
Y THE LAST MAN VOL 6 GIRL ON GIRL TP
Qty Rank: 30
Retail Rank: 74
Y THE LAST MAN VOL 2 CYCLES TP
Qty Rank: 36
Retail Rank: 52
FABLES VOL 6 HOMELANDS TP
Qty Rank: 38
Retail Rank: 36
FABLES VOL 8 WOLVES TP
Qty Rank: 42
Retail Rank: 86
FABLES VOL 2 ANIMAL FARM TP
Qty Rank: 55
Retail Rank: 98
Y THE LAST MAN VOL 3 ONE SMALL STEP TP
Qty Rank: 64
Retail Rank: 75
Y THE LAST MAN VOL 5 RING O/TRUTH TP
Qty Rank: 65
Retail Rank: 114
Y THE LAST MAN VOL 4 SAFEWORD TP
Qty Rank: 74
Retail Rank: 94
FABLES VOL 3 STORYBOOK LOVE TP
Qty Rank: 84
Retail Rank: 79
FABLES VOL 4 MARCH O/WOODEN SOLDIERS TP
Qty Rank: 86
Retail Rank: 125
FABLES VOL 5 MEAN SEASONS TP
Where do you always get all those nifty stats?
Did you mean to sound like Nicholson’s Joker there, cuz you did, and it was awesome.
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You know, I haven’t read this yet, but I’m pondering picking up the first trade tomorrow. From what I’ve heard, it may very well be worth it.
Stats make my brain hurt.
Oh, all right. I’ll read it.
Brian Wood wrote that thing that time. What was that thing? “Demo”? Man, I didn’t like that thing. But there’s a certain threshold… when I’ve officially spent more time reading about how good something is than it would take to actually read the book itself, I have to buy it.
Jimski, I think I’m with you, and DMZ is the only Brian Wood work I’ve really liked. The rest just didn’t connect with me. It’s not bad, it’s just not for me.
I read it in trades and love it. The story is great and pretty applicable in world today. I think that besides Ex Machina it is the “best could happen today” book on the shelves. Plus, it is a little like Escape From New York.
I’ve always been more interested in the more hard-boiled Vertigo books than the ones firmly rooted in fantasy. Which is strange because Vertigo built itself up on things like Hellblazer and Sandman, but I started getting interested in the Vertigo line when 100 Bullets started cropping up. Even my interest in Hellblazer peaked when Azzarello was doing his run of dark, American Gothic stories. After he left, the book concentrated more explicitly on the black magic aspects, which interested me less. So for me, the likes of DMZ and Y: the Last Man are very much the linchpins of that line. I wonder if there’s that clear delineation for other people, between the books that they’ll naturally pick up and ones they tend to ignore. That’s not to say Sandman and Fables are bad books, they’re clearly very well written, they just don’t speak to me in the same way a book like Y (and, to a lesser extent, DMZ) does. I have been toying with the idea of picking up the first trade of Fables though.
What’s the pitch behind DMZ? And how is the art? I’m looking for a new series to start reading in trades, and I was thinking about either Checkmate (though there’s only 1 volume out) or Ex Machina.