Get A Taste Of Some Great Comics

DC Comics announced today that this April they will be publishing Vertigo: First Taste, a trade paperback collecting the first issues of 6 Vertigo titles. The price for the 160-page book? $4.99. Which is more than a deal, it's a down-right steal. That comes out to $.03 a page. Usually you can expect to pay between $.09 and $.12 a page in trade collections.

The stories being collected are:

100 BULLETS #1, written by Brian Azzarello with art by Eduardo Risso

THE BOOKS OF MAGIC: LIFE DURING WARTIME #1, plotted by Neil Gaiman & Si Spencer and written by Spencer with art by Dean Ormston

DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING #1, written by Gaiman with art by Chris Bachalo & Mark Buckingham

SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #21, written by Alan Moore with art by Steve Bissette & John Totleben

TRANSMETROPOLITAN #1, written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson & Jerome K. Moore

Y: THE LAST MAN #1, written by Brian K. Vaughan with art by Pia Guerra & José Marzan Jr.

If I hadn't already read most of these, I'd probably pick the book up. As it is, I might still - now that I think about it - this could make a nice gift for someone or as an intro to some of the things comics has to offer other than superheros.