March 06, 2026

Kray Z Comics and Stories 697: Vertigo Returns

1 hour 49 minutes

After being put out to pasture back in 2020, but it has been brought back starting this year! Cory!! and Joe go into the history of where Vertigo came from, how shops in the 90’s dealt with it, the successes why it went away and a review of the first comic in its revival! They also discuss:

Cory talks about the DC implosion caused by a snowstorm

Cory goes over the history of Superman publishing after Crisis on Infinite Earths

How Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing was the first comic that started the march onward Vertigo.

What the hell was Pirana Press

How Vertigo opened the door for comics in bookstores

Joe not liking the hard line between Vertigo and DC

Retro Review: The Monkees

All of this, the usual shenanigans, and much, much more!!

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