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DC never stopped making Vertigo books, the only thing that disappeared was the logo says DC's Chris Conroy
Vertigo editor Chris Conroy says the DC imprint never went away; they just stopped using the logo
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DC Comics is bringing its Vertigo imprint back in 2026, but a soft relaunch is already underway thanks to James Tynion IV’s series The Nice House by the Sea. Tynion’s post-apocalyptic horror comic was initially published under the DC Black Label imprint, before switching to Vertigo with issue four. According to DC Comics executive editor Chris Conroy, this is an example of how DC never truly stopped publishing Vertigo stories, even when the imprint was inactive.
“All you have to do is look at the other books [James Tynion IV] is doing across the industry to know that James grew up just as steeped in this stuff as I did,” DC Comics executive editor Chris Conroy tells Popverse. “He did incredible superhero work, but the ambition of what he wanted to do in Nice House and the ambitions of Alvaro [Martínez Bueno] on art with both of them just pushing themselves to places that they had not been before in terms of the size of the cast, the size of the world, and the visual ambition of the storytelling.”
“That was the sort of thing that the second the pitch came in, we knew this would be a Vertigo book if we were doing Vertigo right now. At the time, Black Label was the home for it, but in a way, it was proof of concept that even if the name wasn’t on the books, we never stopped making Vertigo books. All we’ve really done is gotten the logo back.”
For more on the future of DC’s Vertigo line, check out Chris Conroy’s full interview below:
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