Comments on: Image to Publish Former Vertigo Series The Crusades

By: Steve Horton

Steve Horton — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:36:01 +0000

Moench & Gulacy’s SCI SPY got reverted to them, and they’ve published it online in various places.

By: Chris G.

Chris G. — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:25:35 +0000

Seagel seems to be implying that the reversion hinged on getting Paul Levitz to agree before he stepped down. It calls to mind someone trying to get a presidential pardon by noon on January 20th or something…

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:44:03 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see if DC’s new regime ever lets rights revert back to the creators in the future. Has Marvel ever been similarly generous in the past, other than the Epic line (which I believe was specifically creator-owned in most — if not all — cases)?

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:33:30 +0000

Oh, yes, that brought it back. No wonder I forgot about it. Thanks.

By: Jim Kosmicki

Jim Kosmicki — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:29:28 +0000

Outlaw Nation was about 18 issues by Jamie Delano about the Johnson family who fought against everyone who wasn’t a Johnson. The main character was a writer named Story Johnson. It has its moments, but overall does not pull together. In the omnibus Delano claims that’s because the plug got pulled long before he was done, but the problems are evident pretty early. This is basically Delano trying to do a version of Preacher and not quite making the grade.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:51:38 +0000

I knew there were some I was forgetting — Boys, obviously, and I even recommended Seekers — but I don’t recall what Outlaw Nation was. And thanks, Skreemer was the one I couldn’t recall that caused such an online brouhaha.

By: chasdom

chasdom — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:06:12 +0000

I seem to remember some kerfuffle when, I think Cyberosia, announced a Skreemer collection. DC pulled a right of publication clause and announced their own collection, which was published less than a year later while the Cyberosia edition was cancelled. It seemed to go nowhere saleswise, and then I think 2020 Visions followed a bit later with no peep from DC.

By: Greg McElhatton

Greg McElhatton — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:46:59 +0000

The Last One by J.M. DeMatteis and Dan Sweetman got collected by Boom!; likewise, the first five issues of Seekers into the Mystery landed at Boom! (with hopefully two more volumes to collect #6-15 to eventually follow).

By: Jim Kosmicki

Jim Kosmicki — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:12:30 +0000

Outlaw Nation got collected (by Desperado I think) in a nice thick omnibus, but in B&W.

By: Ralf Haring

Ralf Haring — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:30:39 +0000

bringing WildStorm into the mix, there were The Boys and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:14:16 +0000

That’s right, and IDW is reprinting the DC issues in a book available in the new Previews. But that’s an even rarer case, since it wasn’t a Vertigo title, but set in the DCU. The only other book I remember like that was Sovereign Seven.

By: Ralf Haring

Ralf Haring — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:00:27 +0000

Fallen Angel got out and is now at IDW.