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I'm dealing with some health issues at the moment. I am therefore hideously behind on the shabby recaps. Apologies.

In the meantime, here's a link to a link from last month, in which Warren Ellis discusses the sunsetting of the Vertigo imprint at DC.

Though Transmet apparently did not start out with Vertigo, that was the label under which I knew it. It was also the label that carried Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, which was my first meaningful introduction to Western comics. (It would have been X-Men, had I understood at a tender age that the 90's cartoon had come from some other material first.) A few other entries on the list of its titles drifted in and out of the awareness and the bookshelves of me and my friends through the years.

My connection to the comics world has been sporadic. So it was strange to realize just how many memories were stirred up by the news that this imprint would be ending. It was a good and weird place to visit, and I spent more time growing up in that "crooked old house of mystery and secrets" than I realized.