Several years ago I picked up an issue of spawn from a comic book seller on the sidewalk and enjoyed the issue greatly. i don't remember the issue number or what exact spawn title it was but it basically chronicled the story of the arch-angel gabriel, and how he went into hell with the Word of God (a sword) and battled satan, but ultimately lost and was cast down as a fallen angel.
The religious/mythological, and cosmological aspect of the story really appealed to me....those are my favorite comic stories.
Are there similar tales in Vertigo? My assumption is yes...I stopped reading comics right after the Onslaught arc was finished, and then started reading again when Annihilation came out last year. How should one get started in Vertigo?
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pretty much all the early vertigo stuff is just downright amazing. the entire run of Hellblazer is good comics if you like religious/mythical/magical type stories.
it's a bit different from the movie... the character is more humanistic and has less of a "servant of heaven thing" going... but it's really good. Garth Ennis' run is great. Those show the street level magician aspect of Constantine... they're pretty good stuff. Warren Ellis is good too: "Haunted" and "Setting Sun." but I'm pretty sure that it's all in trade.
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Sandman, Swampthing, Lucifer, Fables, Preacher and Hellblazer all kick ass. Things like Black Orchid were also very good. The Darkhorse stuff like Concrete is on a par with much of the later Vertigo though. As are a number of independents. Some of DC's prestige line in the late eighties early nineties like the Nazz.
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