the vertigo crime line 2010
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The Vertigo Crime line continues with the addition of The Bronx Kill and Area 10 available in Spring 2010TRANSCRIPT
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SUMMER ‘10
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Title: Filthy RichClient: Vertigo Comics
RICHARD “JUNK” JUNKIN HAS ALWAYS LIVED ON THE WRONG SIDE OF TROUBLE.
A former pro football star whose career was cut short by injury (and a nasty gambling problem),
Junk now spends his time dreaming of what might have been, selling cars in Jersey and lusting
after the boss’s unbelievably spoiled, unbelievably sexy and unbelievably rich daughter, Victoria.
So when the boss asks him to be Victoria’s personal bodyguard while she tears up the New York
City club scene, Junk leaps at the chance. But before long, he finds that Victoria wants a lapdog
and not a chaperone, someone who’s going to do all of
her dirty work — all of it — someone who wants to get
filthy rich…
“Filthy Rich is the real noir. It captures the genre’spsychosis and inner dark with intelligent writingand atmospheric art. A great performance form
Brian Azzarello and Victor Santos.”—GEORGE PELECANOS,
New York Times best-selling author of THE WAY HOME and THE TURNAROUND
“Riffing on the classic brass-knuckled styleof Mickey Spillane, Brian Azzarello’s Filthy Rich isfilled with swagger and pulpy kicks—a down-and-
dirty ride through a hardboiled fun house.”—MEGAN ABBOTT,
Edgar winning author of Queenpin and Bury Me Deep
“Sex, greed, debauchery—I love it.Brian Azzarello is brilliant..”
—JOSEPH FINDER,New York Times best-selling author of PARANOIA and VANISHED
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Title: Dark EntriesClient: Vertigo Comics
OCCULT DETECTIVE JOHN CONSTANTINE HAS SEEN HIS SHARE OF STRANGE THINGS
IN HIS CAREER, but nothing could prepare him for the horrors of...reality television. “Haunted
Mansion” is currently the hottest show on T.V., but when the macabre house actually starts
attacking the contestants, Constantine is hired to be the ultimate mole. Locked inside with a cast of
wannabe-celebrities, his every move being monitored by a deadly figure from his past, Constantine
must figure out who (or what) is pulling the strings before he gets cancelled — permanently.
“Ian Rankin’s Dark Entries is a haunting,jolting meditation on the meaning of damnation
in a world that’s increasingly lost its soul.”
—MEGAN ABBOTT,Edgar winning author of Queenpin and Bury Me Deep
“Rankin’s work is crime fictionat its most consuming, cerebral best.”
—THE NEW YORKER
“The best living British crime writer.”
—LEE CHILD
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Title: The ChillClient: Vertigo Comics
IT’S SUMMERTIME IN NEW YORK, BUT A “CHILL” HAS SETTLED OVER THE CITY — a serial
killer is on the loose, and the ritualized murders are becoming increasingly sadistic.
The NYPD and the FBI have a suspect: a gorgeous young woman named Arlana. The only problem
is that every witness provides a different description of her. None of this makes any sense to
anyone except Martin Cleary, a beaten-down Irish cop from Boston with a whopper of a secret
in his past — a past that may go back a century or two…
“The Chill is the darkest, sexiest, most twistednoir comic I think I’ve ever read.”
—ED BRUBAKERNew York Times best-selling author of Criminal
“The Chill is full of more grisly surprisesthan a backwoods fun house, fusing a noir copsensibility to a balls-out supernatural thriller.Crime fiction legend Jason Starr makes twin
debuts here — comics and horror — and showshe’s a master of both, right out of the gate.And Mick Bertilorenzi is his perfect partner
in crime, with art that refuses to flinch”—DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI
Author of Expiration and the X-Men series Cable
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Title: The Bronx KillClient: Vertigo Comics
MARTIN’S DAD WANTED HIM TO BE A COP. LIKE HIS FATHER AND HIS FATHER
BEFORE HIM. Being a cop was in the Keane blood, but Martin had other ideas. Martin wanted
to be a writer.
And then Martin’s lovely wife goes missing. Slowly but surely Martin’s life unravels, as he tries to
explain her disappearance. His desperate search forces Martin to delve into the very thing he’s
spent his whole life trying to run from: the dark history
and darker secrets of the Keane family – bringing him to
the Bronx Kill, the lonely, godforsaken stretch of land
where many years earlier his great grandfather had
been brutally murdered – the place where he’ll learn
the truth about his wife and his family…a truth more
shocking and monstrous than he could ever have
imagined.
“A mind-bending mash up of ancient mythand modern mayhem!”—DAVE GIBBONS, WATCHMEN
“Count me In.”—GARTH ENNIS, PREACHER
“Crackles with Promethean fire..”—GRANT MORRISON
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Title: Area 10Client: Vertigo Comics
A KILLER KNOWN AS “HENRY THE EIGHTH” LEAVES A TRAIL OF DECAPITATED CORPSES.
THERE ARE NO APPARENT CLUES, EXCEPT THAT HE KEEPS THE SEVERED HEADS TO
USE FOR PURPOSES UNKNOWN.
For NYPD Detective Adam Kamen, reeling from a personal tragedy and bitter divorce, cracking
the “Henry” case offers a chance to get his life back on track — until a freak incident leaves him
with a bizarre injury to his brain.
When he recovers, Adam’s perceptions of time are
altered. He soon becomes convinced that his condition
is tied to the “Henry” killings and that the key may
lie in the ancient art of “trepanation,” the macabre,
ritual practice of drilling holes in the skull to achieve
enlightenment. Adam must learn to use his strange
symptoms to his advantage, in order to stop Henry
before he drills again.
“Mind Blowing! Eye opening!…Okay, enough withthe metaphors, it’s just really, really cool!”
—MAX BROOKS, NYT Bestselling author of WORLD WAR Z
“An exquisitely creepy crime story loadedwith twists. Gage and Samnee make one hell
of a team. Thanks to them I’ll forever beuncomfortable around power drills”
—JASON AARON, SCALPED
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