Coming Soon From DC Vertigo: Safe Sex, The Comic Book (AVN)
Read the full article by Mark Kernes at AVN.com
BURBANK, Calif.—Comic books still occasionally make the news, mostly in relation to what new movie featuring what superhero is about to come out, or is currently doing at the box office. Yes, it's news that Black Panther is now the highest grossing superhero movie of all time, or that Wonder Woman broke a lot of barriers regarding how the movies deal with female superheroes—but for many comic book fans, that sort of news barely raises an eyebrow... much less a penis or clitoris.
But there's another side to the mainstream comic book industry, one clearly influenced by the rise of "underground" comics in the late 1960s, a time from which several titles are still being published today, though often in "memorial editions." But if it hadn't been for underground comics, it's likely that DC Entertainment's imprint Vertigo likely never would have existed—and now, Vertigo's relation to the "underground" is about to get even closer.
"To celebrate the imprint’s 25th anniversary, DC Entertainment is announcing a line-wide relaunch and rebrand of its venerable Vertigo publishing imprint," reads the opening of a DC press release, dutifully reworked on several websites including The Hollywood Reporter. "Helmed by executive editor Mark Doyle, Vertigo—now called DC Vertigo—will focus on modern, socially relevant and inventive stories that capture a whole range of genres. And potentially a whole range of readers."
But of the seven new titles to be released during the remainder of 2018 and the early months of 2019, the one that's most likely to be of interest to adult entertainment fans is Safe Sex, created by author/podcaster Tina Horn and drawn by Mike Dowling.
Since Safe Sex is one of the three comics that won't be seen until early 2019, the only information about it comes from DC itself, which describes the plot of the book as, "a dystopian thriller set in a future where the government regulates and controls sexual pleasure, leading to an underground resistance led by sex workers."