Hooooo boy! It’s been a while since I posted anything here. As it turns out, being a new father and working 50 hour weeks as an engineer are activities that, when occurring concurrently, eat up a lot of time that would otherwise be spent doing other things. But things have stabilized a little and I’m working on a couple personal projects again. I am expanding more of my short movie reviews, and I’ve begun work on a couple interesting circuits that I hope to be able to put onto breadboards soon. I’m also eager to keep posting stuff here, so if you are one of the three or four people a week that actually look at this site, keep your eyes peeled.
Moving on, a big motivation for this particular blog entry is my desire to say a few words on the demise of Vertigo comics. The final single issues released under DC's “mature readers” imprint allegedly appeared in comic shops this month, although I didn’t see its logo anywhere on my FLCS’s shelves. What a shame for Vertigo to go out with such a whimper. DC's decision to shutter what is probably the best imprint in comics history is beyond my comprehension. Vertigo gave us the majority of the most important comics published in the 90s, 2000s, and 2010s, and even though the post-Berger era saw the imprint hit a low in terms of quality, it was far from beyond fixing. Apparently they're replacing Vertigo with some newfangled age rating system for their comics, and DC Black Label will likely host titles that would have otherwise been on Vertigo. But all that seems to miss the point of what Vertigo was really all about in the first place. It wasn’t about edgy content, or darker Batman stories or whatever, it was about elevating comics to a more mature place beyond what you usually see splashed in bright colors across comic book shelves. It was about comic books as literature, and there is nothing to take its place.
Oh well. Here's to the good times, Vertigo. You’ll be missed. Here’s to the inevitable half-hearted Vertigo reboot we’ll suffer through at some point in the next few years when DC realizes how bad they screwed up.