Comics
[Comic Book Review] Vertigo Quarterly: CMYK Yellow – Endlessly Impresses
Yellow is caution, yellow is choice, it is consequence, it is history, it is destiny, destination, wealth, childhood, and a damn good anthology. Vertigo Comics continues it’s incredible stroke of genius with “Vertigo Quarterly: CMYK: Yellow” evoking a special kind of melancholic vibrancy that has to be engaged with. It’s really quite something.
This month’s “Yellow” sees a thoughtful mediation on life itself, sometimes more direct than others, but it’s all about endings, beginnings and foraging our own destiny. It’s a pointed meditation on huge concepts, that will have you questioning your own momentum and destination.
WRITTEN BY: Various, Group Editor: Will Dennis
ART BY: Various
PUBLISHER: Vertigo
PRICE: $7.99
RELEASE: October 29, 2014
The anthology opens with self proclaimed comic industry weirdo and nineties pop culture aficionado Steve Orlando. Who sets an magnificent tone for the entire piece through offering a thoughtful look at the things we do for our art, and making our own destinies. Its brought to life in sweeping surrealist art by Emilio Uterra, who looks as if he dumped yellow on the page, and cut dark expressions out of it. This is one powerful opener that should capture your attention right away.
Gerard Way gives us an adventure all about the thrill of well… adventure, the escapism we all need to appreciate the little things in our lives. Toril Orlesky offers something unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed about the strength that comes with the ignorance of having no destination. Marguerite Bennett challenges us to interpret the role higher powers play in our lives, it’s hauntingly beautiful thanks to the work of Bill Sienkiewicz. I often thought it was veering toward more traditional and playfully eerie only to be rocked by the final page.
Later, Matt Miner offers a reflection on whom we eventually become. The distant reflection of who we once were leaving only stains in familiar locations. The choice me make to embrace those stains, or atone for them, and the winding road of life. It honestly had me on the verge of tears, because it felt incredibly authentic, but hauntingly beautiful.
Fabio Moon closes out the entry with a lovely little tale of childhood imagination. And what a believing in a better version of the truth can do for a person. It’s a really special look at “magic.” And ends the collection with a touch of sweetness.
“Yellow” is quite unlike anything you’ve read before, it’s thoughtful, touching, celbratory, and damning. It’s filled with contradictions, not out of design but rather from different outlooks on the same ideas. It’s a beautifully crafted comic that will have you thinking long into the night about the choices you’ve made, and the ones your about to make.
But rest assured the one choice you must make, is to support incredible anthologies like the “Vertigo: Quarterly.” It’s meticulously curated to show the medium at the height of it’s form, and offers a challenge to the way things are being done as we speak. It shows that we can build better comics, and all it takes is the right collection of inspired creators, and one damn good editor.
Comics
‘Witchblade’ is Getting Resurrected This Summer in New Comic Series from Top Cow and Image Comics
Witchblade, the popular comic series that initially ran from 1995 to 2015 and launched a TV series, is getting resurrected in a new comic series from Top Cow and Image Comics. It’s set to unleash heavy metal, black magic and blood this summer.
Look for the new Witchblade series to launch on July 17, 2024.
In Witchblade #1, “New York City Police Detective Sara Pezzini’s life was forever fractured by her father’s murder. Cold, cunning, and hellbent on revenge, Sara now stalks a vicious criminal cabal beneath the city, where an ancient power collides and transforms her into something wild, magnificent, and beyond her darkest imaginings. How will Sara use this ancient power, or will she be consumed by it?”
The series is penned by NYT Best-Selling writer Marguerite Bennett (Animosity, Batwoman, DC Bombshells) and visualized by artist Giuseppe Cafaro (Suicide Squad, Power Rangers, Red Sonja). The creative duo is working with original co-creator Marc Silvestri, who is the CEO of Top Cow Productions Inc. and one of the founders of Image Comics. They are set to reintroduce the series to Witchblade’s enduring fans with “a reimagined origin with contemporary takes on familiar characters and new story arcs that will hook new readers and rekindle the energy and excitement that fueled the 90’s Image Revolution that shaped generations of top creators.”
Bennett said in a statement, “The ability to tell a ferocious story full of monsters, sexuality, vision, and history was irresistible.” She adds, “Our saga is sleek, vicious, ferocious, and has a lot to say about power in the 21st century and will be the first time that we are stopping the roller coaster to let more people on. I’ve loved Witchblade since I was a child, and there is truly no other heroine like Sara with such an iconic legacy and such a rich, brutal relationship to her own body.”
“The Witchblade universe is being modernized to reflect how Marguerite beautifully explores the extreme sides of Sara through memories, her personal thoughts, like desire and hunger, in her solitude and when she is possessed by the Witchblade. So, I had to visually intersect a noir True Detective-like world with a supernatural, horror world that is a fantastic mix between Berserk and Zodiac,” Cafaro stated.
Marc Silvestri notes, “This is brand new mythology around Sara, and I can’t wait for you to fall in love with her and all the twists and turns. Discover Witchblade reimagined this summer, and join us as we bring all the fun of the 90s to the modern age and see how exciting comics can be. I can’t wait for you to read this new series.”
Witchblade#1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 17th, for $4.99 for 48 pages. And it’ll come with multiple cover variants.
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Cover A: Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto (Full Color)
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Cover B: Giuseppe Cafaro and Arif Prianto (Full Color)
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Cover C: Blank Sketch Cover
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Cover D (1/10): Dani and Brad Simpson (Full Color)
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Cover E (1/25): Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto, Virgin Cover (Full Color)
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Cover F (1/50): J.Scott Campbell (Full Color)
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Cover G (1/100): Bill Sienkiewicz. (Full Color)
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Cover H (1/250): Line art by Marc. Virgin Cover, Inks (B/W)
Witchblade #1 will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
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