What was your favorite label from DC Comics?

[Union Comics]

There are many labels in DC Comics, there´s (or there was) Vertigo, Helix, Elseworlds, America´s Best Comics, Homage, Piranha Press, Paradox Press, Minx, Tangent Comics, and others.

What is your favorite label from all these? What is your favorite story from all these labels?

[superduperman]

Elseworlds. Though I'm not sure that qualifies as a label in and of itself. My current favorite is Black Label just because they are doing the kinds of series I want to read. Out of continuity stuff with a more mature bent.

[Sutekh]

Elseworlds. I've always liked the freedom that AU's have to play around with a character and their mythology without having to worry about leaving everything as they found it for the next writer, or how whatever happens in their story impact the wider DCU.

[jb681131]

Of course Vertigo:

- 100 Bullets
- Transmetropolitan
- Saga of Swamp Thing
- Hellblazer
- Preacher
- The Watchmen
- V for Vendetta
- Fable
- Lucifer
- Scalped
- Doom Patrol
- The Sandman
- Sheriff of Babylon
- Y: The Last Man
- The Losers
- Sweeth Tooth
- ...

[MRP]

Vertigo for sure. I liked a lot of stuff from several of the labels, but Vertigo was where it was at for me.

-M

[Brad]

From that list, I have fond memories of Elseworlds, Helix, and Tangent. But America's Best Comics wins. Such a variety of interesting characters in creative stories, mostly written by Alan Moore. Really felt like I got my money's worth. The titles I followed were Tom Strong, Top 10, and Tomorrow Stories, plus all the related spin offs and one shots.

[Adset]

Definitely Vertigo, but I’d like to echo the praise for ABC... I devoured every title. Promethea remains a Top 5 title all time (for me).

But Vertigo, in it’s heyday, was king.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Right now it's the Sandman universe as I'm reading three titles- The Dreaming, Hellblazer (*), and Books of Magic.

* Hellblazer (2019) is pitched as a Black Label book but set in the Sandman Universe so it double dips.

[caj]

Definitely Elseworlds. Wish it was still around.

[Twice-named]

Early 90s Vertigo. Sandman Mystery Theatre. Enigma. The Extremist. Animal Man. Kid Eternity.

[Lee Stone]

Vertigo.
Especially during the '90s.

Definitely Vertigo, but I’d like to echo the praise for ABC... I devoured every title. Promethea remains a Top 5 title all time (for me).

I like to pretend that Promethea was really a Vertigo title. It and Hellboy are two titles I felt really captured the early Vertigo feel despite not being Vertigo.

But then, the '90s had something of a transcendental/existentialism movement going on, most likely fueled by Y2K anxiety.

[Union Comics]

Of course Vertigo:

- 100 Bullets
- Transmetropolitan
- Saga of Swamp Thing
- Hellblazer
- Preacher
- The Watchmen
- V for Vendetta
- Fable
- Lucifer
- Scalped
- Doom Patrol
- The Sandman
- Sheriff of Babylon
- Y: The Last Man
- The Losers
- Sweeth Tooth
- ...

Actually Transmetropolitan started in Helix

[Jim Kelly]

If I could win the argument that the 80 Page Giants were a different label--they had a different price point and a distinctive trade dress--then I'd submit those.

[gordonm]

Vertigo. Preacher is my favourite comic of all time.

[SJNeal]

Early 90s Vertigo. Sandman Mystery Theatre. Enigma. The Extremist. Animal Man. Kid Eternity.

Same here. I'm pretty sure I own every book published under the Vertigo imprint between 1993 - 1996... all good stuff!