Vertigo Goodness

If you're looking to catch onto a new series that's unique, Vertigo seems to be churning out quality books that stand out from both the capes and the indies. We've raved enough about DMZ, but Exterminators and American Virgin are both off to good starts and showing a lot of potential. And they're both at the nice spot where you can pick up the first book, and if you like it you can still find the next issue on the shelf.

Exterminators, written by fresh talent Simon Oliver with art by Tony Moore,follows a new Bug Man on the first day of the job which leads to dead bodies and some sort of potential mutated bug conspiracy.

American Virgin has one of the strangest premises for an ongoing series that I've seen in a while. Its about a young Christian evangelical speaker/writer who talks to teens and tells them to "Save Yourself". God told him to save himself for his girlfriend, and without spoiling too much (*spoiler!*) his girlfriend gets beheaded in the first issue. I'm sticking around with it just because I don't have a clue where its going. And because Becky Cloonan's art is frakkin awesome. The trade comes out on the 25th, but the first issue has already been added to DC's free "First Issue Classics" on their website.

-Nick