Vertigo Revival
Back in April 2016, while DC was preparing their Rebirth line up to win back a large part of the comic book readership, Vertigo was having it’s own growth structure.
In the previous year of 2015, 12 new titles were announced as a way to reinvigorate the line up with plenty of different tone books with plenty of horror with Survivor’s Club and Clean Room to even some quirky light books with New Romancers.
The sales of these titles wasn’t exactly what DC was hoping for as such titles as Art Op and Survivor’s Club became stealth mini series, most of them being cancelled in the end as at the time of writing this article – only two remain as ongoing series with Unfollow by Rob Williams, Mike Dowling and Clean Room by Gail Simone, Jon Davis-Hunt.
It should be noted however that Vertigo was transparent with the length of certain titles as Sheriff of Baghdad was planned for 8 (extended to 12), Jacked was going to be 6 while titles such as Red Thorn, Survivors’ Club and Slash & Burn had no planned end date.
Let’s break down the first four shipped titles for each series – Keep in mind that the general rule of thumb for Marvel/DC is that a title that ships under 14k usually gets cancelled while the same amount shipped for Image book is considered a success.
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