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Karen Berger Confirms DC Characters To Leave Vertigo

Respectfully, we informed you of this event at an earlier yadda yadda yadda...

Karen Berger, Executive Editor of Vertigo at DC Comics, has just confirmed on the Vertigo panel at San Diego Comic Con that all Vertigo characters rooted in the DC Universe are being returned to the editorial mandates of the DCU offices.

This included a Swamp Thing series in production, but that everything was worked out amicably. And she was insistent that Vertigo is at its very best when creating new and interesting comics.

Bleeding Cool recently reported that this was new policy a few months ago and that China Meiville's five-issue-written new Swamp Thing series was a casualty of that. We also reported the cancellation of Madame Xanadu, a character even more recently a DCU property.

Though, with his impending nuptuals, it looks like John Constantine, as ever, will be the exception.

Hellblazer is for Vertigo what Batman is for DC or Spider-man for Marvel, there's no way he is going to DC

This is stupid. They're going to get the Animal Man/Doom Patrol treatment. I doubt Hellblazer will be moved though.

" Hellblazer is for Vertigo what Batman is for DC or Spider-man for Marvel, there's no way he is going to DC "

" you know during that Paul Dini interview ComicVine posted I kept worrying he was going to mention plans for Constantine...considering Con is in a "relationship" with Epiphany right now that would just screw things up "

" yeah...the last annual had all Vertigo's DC-owned comics involved (except I, Zombie which I find odd since its creator-owned but it seems to be a part of the DCU?) but if they kill off all that...the annuals can't keep happening without just being an assortment of unconnected stories
 
@Sexy Merc said:

" This is stupid. They're going to get the Animal Man/Doom Patrol treatment. I doubt Hellblazer will be moved though. "

exactly, Animal Man and Doom Patrol...not even the same characters as they were under Vertigo aside from name...I really hope they won't cancel Hellblazer and considering at the same SDCC they announced future storylines for it they probably won't be cutting it, at least not for this reason "

Eh, there were books that spent years under the main DC umbrella before the Vertigo imprint was created and they worked just fine. Sandman, Black Orchid, Animal Man and Doom Patrol were pretty far out-there while still interacting with the DCU. The Dominator meta-gene bomb from Invasion turned Rhea Jones into a faceless nude woman with an eye on her chest who helps the Doom Patrol fight a creature who says he's God and gets his power from the pain of thousands of pinned butterflies. That's pretty outside the box and still in the DCU. Even Vertigo legend Transmetropolitan started out under the brief Helix imprint. And in the end they all answer to the same powers that be, it's not like DC hands Berger a check and say  "go buck wild on weird comics" and pays no attention to the output. There's some cases, like the Losers, where I don't know why it was a Vertigo book under than being for mature readers. Not like anything happened that would be impossible to have occured in the DCU. I just think maybe people are lighting their torches and sharpening their pitchforks a tad early.

" @ForbushBug: I think the problem is your looking at the beginning (the mistake I believe people constantly make in this argument) rather then the end...yes these comics began under DC but things were different back then (almost 20 years ago!), there was no imprint for them to work under, the imprint was made so they could flourish even more and they did...however in recent years, we have seen what DC has done when taking characters back from Vertigo and that track record is pretty atrocious as far as preserving what Vertigo did (Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Human Target) and Madame Xanadu was interacting with the DCU in her book actually so there was no justifiable reason for the book's cancellation "

Well this is disappointing, but at least it looks like Constantine will stay where he belongs

Well It's a good thing allot of these characters Vertigo was just sitting on so it's better they get some good use in the DCU the only reason I could think of that they stayed was some stupid rule that never made sense Vertigo has moved on to being about original creations from writers and artists and it's better that way people may call DC greedy but they are a business and would like to make money and if they think there is potential here then no one should get mad at them for that.   
 
It's not like it's Yorrick Brown DC wants or Sven it's characters written by multiple writers over the years already used by more then one person. 

" Well this is disappointing, but at least it looks like Constantine will stay where he belongs "