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DC is preparing for a big Vertigo relaunch in 2026, promising to deliver the same types of offbeat and mature stories that made the imprint popular in the ‘90s. However, the comic book marketplace of 2026 isn’t the same as it was in the mid-90s. With the rise of creator-owned series and the expansion of the digital market, what place does Vertigo have in the current landscape? For DC Comics executive editor Chris Conroy, the answer is simple.

“Some of it is gut obviously,” Chris Conroy tells Popverse. “I am a child of the original Vertigo. I remember getting on the city bus when I was 14, and I couldn’t drive, and I just bought an issue of The Invisibles. I was sitting there in that seat, and it just cracked my brain open. Some of it is gut, but really it does just come down to that hunger for originality.”

“At this point in my career, I’ve sort of moved around all of the various parts of DC. I’ve done the monthly superhero work, and I’ve done our genre experiments. In my current role, I’m overseeing the Absolute line, I’m overseeing Black Label, and I’m overseeing Vertigo. So, I have a very kind of finely developed sense of where we are and where we aren’t. And Vertigo really is just for all the genres under the sun that we don’t explore through the superheroes. It’s for our crime, it’s for our fantasy, and it’s for horror.”

For more on the future of DC’s Vertigo line, check out Chris Conroy’s full interview below:

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