The Vinyl Underground
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
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| Publication date | December 2007 – November 2008 |
| No. of issues | 12 |
| Creative team | |
| Artist(s) | Si Spencer |
| Penciller(s) | Simon Gane |
| Inker(s) |
Cameron Stewart Ryan Kelly |
| Letterer(s) | Jared K. Fletcher |
| Colorist(s) | Guy Major |
| Editor(s) |
Shelly Bond Angela Rufino |
| Collected editions | |
| Watching the Detectives | ISBN |
| Pretty Dead Things | ISBN |
The Vinyl Underground is a comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, created and written by Si Spencer with art by Simon Gane. The title debuted in October 2007 and ran for twelve issues before its cancellation in September 2008.
Unveiled at the San Diego ComiCon in 2007 by Vertigo's Karen Berger as "'yet another' good Vertigo book about England,"The Vinyl Underground is described by its author, Si Spencer as "a love-hate story about the streets [of London] that shaped its characters, and that shaped its author." Spencer—who writes for TV series EastEnders—credits London, his "adopted home now for ten years," with "[t]wo thousand years of violence [which] have shaped its streets," as well as fiction set within them. Spencer writes in the Vertigo column "On the Ledge" that the city "constantly barg[ed] into the story uninvited," informing in the process the "right narrative voice" for the Vinyl Underground series.
Illustrator Simon Gane described the title as "scary, glamorous, fun, dark and articulate," (while fellow-artist Andi Watson noted that Gane's work "[i]s a bit saucy") but also "hard to draw." Gane's work on The Vinyl Underground was deliberately drawn "in a more realistic style," than his usual (self-described as "warped") work, which move he felt "[had] a constructive effect on my drawing and story-telling."
The first issue was released on October 3, 2007 (cover-dated December) featuring cover art by Sean Phillips. Gane summarized the series as being "set in London and featur[ing] an ad-hoc group of self-appointed detectives who become embroiled in occult-tinged crimes with a strong supporting cast of mobsters and so on." While author Spencer stressed that it was: "not just a detective thriller about a bunch of graduates hanging out in an abandoned underground station investigating occult crime," but also featured the city of London as a major 'character'. Publisher Vertigo described the series as a "fast-paced, ultra-cool ongoing crime-noir series," featuring "an unlikely quartet of occult detectives secretly solv[ing] crimes — from DJ crack bars in Camden to the elegant, high-society ballrooms that make up modern London."
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