Vertigo Resurrected #1 is a one-shot with a cover date of December, 2010. It was published on October 20, 2010.
Synopsis for "Shoot"
Government investigator Penny Carnes reviews tapes from a school shooting and tries to connect it to similar events: mass killings of children by children with no clear motive. After obsessing over the video tape recordings of the events in order to give a testimony to a Congressional panel, she realizes that one man is present at four shootings. An FBI connection discovers that the mysterious blond man in a trenchoat is a transient named John Constantine. When another shooting occurs, she seems him on live television.
One night, she goes back to her office after hours and finds Constantine standing in her office. A friend of John's had a divorce and his wife took their son to Louisiana, where he was killed in a school shooting. He has studied the violence to try to find an explanation and it's not violent video games or artificial coloring in food but the sheer desperation in many of the children's lives: they know at a young age that they have nothing to live for and Constantine encourages her to look at one of the surveillance tapes closely to see what one of the victims says before he dies. She looks in horror as he reads the boy's lips and he says, "Shoot".
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- Penny Carnes (First appearance)
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- Brian
- David (Dies)
- Carlton Harris (Mentioned only)
- Whitney Houston (Mentioned only)
- Marilyn Manson (Mentioned only)
- Rick (Phone call only)
- Mark Spears (On a TV or computer screen)
Locations:
- Guyana
- Jonestown (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
Synopsis for "The Kapas"
This story is reprinted from Strange Adventures (Volume 2) #1.
Appearing in "The Kapas"
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- Neville Wooldridge (Host)
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- his brother Percy
- Jumbo Wilkins
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- Yang Tsen-hsin (Behind the scenes)
- Urumqians
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- A young man
- his mother
- Marco Polo (Mentioned only)
- Kublai Khan (Mentioned only)
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- 20th Century, some year between 1911 and 1928.
- China
- Devonshire (Mentioned only)
- Turkestan (Mentioned only)
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- Kapas (torture instrument)
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Synopsis for "Native Tongue"
This story is reprinted from Strange Adventures (Volume 2) #4.
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Synopsis for "New Toys"
This story is reprinted from Weird War Tales (Volume 2) #3.
In this story, a war is fought between toys. In the midst of a battle, a GI action figure narrates that the entire conflict was orchestrated by an unseen enemy. The toy became shell shock from the carnage and is "airlifted" by a young girl to her bedroom. Where he is taken and recuperating in a doll house (a "hospital"). There the soldier became relieve from his stress and infatuate with a doll.
But one morning, he finds the doll was replaced by "the new toys." Knowing that he would be next, the soldier escape and return to his army to try warn them of the "new toys". However, he is disbelieved and scorn by his people as a deserter in which he is sentence to a firing squad. As he is led to his execution, he vainly tells his executioners that the war is a diversion for the new toys to replace them and that by stop fighting that they could actually see the real enemy. He is then needlessly 'executed'.
As the scene pans away from the soldier's lifeless body to the little girl's room, it is seen to the viewers that the "new toys", revealing themselves to be monstrous insect-like creatures have already replace the toys in the room.
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Synopsis for "Nosh and Barry and Eddie and Joe"
This story is reprinted from Weird War Tales Special (Volume 2) #1.
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- Nosh
- Barry
- Eddie
- Joe
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Synopsis for "Diagnosis"
This story is reprinted from Heartthrobs #1.
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Synopsis for "The Death of a Romantic"
This story is reprinted from Heartthrobs #3.
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Synopsis for "It Takes a Village"
This story is reprinted from Flinch #7.
Mr. Sorovin, the mayor of Tuvaletkoy, wishes to hire yet another monster from Miss Gruelle in order for his town to hunt. Reason being, he is afraid of the modern world and all the sex, drugs, wild music and lack of respect for God and elders that comes with it. He is afraid it would replace their traditional ways. So, he has the town search for monsters to keep their old ways alive.
Appearing in "It Takes a Village"
This story is reprinted from Flinch #7.
Mr. Sorovin, the mayor of Tuvaletkoy, wishes to hire yet another monster from Miss Gruelle in order for his town to hunt. Reason being, he is afraid of the modern world and all the sex, drugs, wild music and lack of respect for God and elders that comes with it. He is afraid it would replace their traditional ways. So, he has the town search for monsters to keep their old ways alive.
Synopsis for "Resolve"
This story is reprinted from Flinch #14.
A man approaches an old house during a storm after a car accident where he is greeted by a woman who allows him to change out of his wet clothes. He finds himself being attracted to her and over the course of the story he comes to realize that he in fact died in the accident and the powers of hypnosis she learned from her father allows her to animate his and her father's body in order to share her bed.
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Notes
- The story "Shoot" was written by Warren Ellis in 1999 and scheduled for publication in Hellblazer #141. However, the Columbine school shooting led the publishers to pull the story, prompting Ellis' decision to quit the title. It is published here for the first time.[1]
- Penny in "Shoot" references the Jonestown Massacre.
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