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I'm really curious to see just how close to the books they stayed for Kick Ass 2.

Kick Ass 2 made me physically ill when I was reading it.
 
DC To Pay For All Of A Retailer's Vertigo-Themed Advertising - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

He let us know that it was ecplained to him that DC see Vertigo as a place for new creators to cut their teeth and find their voice. I certainly look forward to seeing that in practice. Also that they will be sending PDFs in advance to retailers, making the first three issues of each title returnable if you order enough and paying 100% of co-op advertising costs for shop ads that promote Vertigo books.

Usually DC pays 50% of such advertising, this is a step that will ensure Vertigo is prominent on a local level, on TV, on radiuo, in cinema, in print and online.
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Oh, and:

He also told us that DC/Vertigo are finally reprinting Brian K Vaughan‘s Swamp Thing run in collected form.
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Sweet. Now, how about Mark Millar's?
 
Since it's directly comic related, I'll just put this here.

What We Expect To Be Announced At San Diego Comic Con - Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Dynamite, Valiant, Boom And More - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Matt Fraction‘s Inhumans, a new series that will span the world and may lay down the possibilities for a movie in the future. In a Game Of Thrones style, where the Inhuman families have been split into separate houses.
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Dark Horse Comics looks like they’ll be launching a brand new line of Aliens titles.. But intriguingly they will be adding the characters from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus into the fold. The aim is to do for their Aliens comics what they just did for Star Wars.
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The Death Of Wolverine. We know that Paul Cornell and Alan Davis are bringing us Killable, the idea as Bleeding Cool have heard it is that after his jaunts through time, Logan’s healing power is damaged beyond repair. And, as with the movie, he may become mortal again. And die…
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Sandman: Overture - The New Name For Sandman Zero, Plus New Vertigo Comics, Hinterkind By Edginton, The Discipline By Peter Milligan And The Dead Boy Detectives - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

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Other new projects include Hinterkind by Ian Edginton,

which focuses on a post-apocalyptic world in which the creatures of myth and legend have returned

The Discipline by Peter Milligan,

an erotic thriller about a woman at the center of an shadow war that spans eons.

The Dead Boy Detectives, in November.

The characters, Edwin and Charles, are boarding school students who died tragically and returned as ghost detectives. (In the new series, a girl, whose mortality status is unknown, will join them.)
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Encouraging news. And count me in for the first two.
 
Velvet, A New Comic By Ed Brubaker And Steve Epting From Image Comics - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

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Velvet Templeton is the personal assistant to the head of one of the world’s largest intelligence agencies, a Moneypenny kind of character. She leaves her desk job and has to go on the run into the field against her own agents. Imagine Bond or MI done in a true Cold War scenario.”
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Are you ****ing kidding me? GIMME.


Alone by JMS and Sienkiewicz From Image Comics, As Well As JMS' Other Creator Owned Comics - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

And JMS will be launching Alone with Bill Sienkiewicz, “a six-issue series that’s going to deconstruct comic book storytelling.”
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Yessssssssssssssssssssssss.


Matt Fraction Announces ODY-C With Christian Ward (UPDATE) - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Matt Fraction, as well as talking about his already announced books such as Sex Criminals (the second issues of which has the tagline Come. World) has also announced Ody-C with Infinite Vacation’s Christian Ward, “the second adaptation of the Odyssey at Image Comics!”
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Jason Aaron Arrives At Image With Jason Latour For Southern Bastards (UPDATE) - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Aaron stated that he filled it with characters he can torture for years and gives us the high concepts “Dukes Of Hazard by the Coen Brothers on meth” or “The Untouchables meets Boss Hogg”. The main bad guy is the local high school football coach. He buries lots of bodies in the end zone and under the bleachers. Aaron describes it as a very collaborative book between two southern bastards. Release date is early 2014.
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Guess my pull list isn't getting any smaller next year.
 
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