Simon Dark #4 - DC

This book is really pulling me in. I'm not sure what to classify it under . . yet . . but, I have to say, I really like what Steve Niles is doing with these characters. I also like Scott Hampton's artwork on this series. He's changed his style a bit for this book, and it really fits. We're on issue #4 now, and it feels like we've been introduced to most of the main characters by now. Maybe not everybody, but, enough so that we can start to see how the various aspects of this story are starting to connect. It seems like theirs some kind of "Men's club" in Gotham, that is actually a form of mystical society. I don't think they're Magicians and Warlock's per-se, but, I think they have dabblings in that world. Somehow they're connected to it. The Officer, or Detective, that we've seen the most of, so far, Tom Kirk, was at one time also connected to this group. But we don't know the whole story behind all of that yet. But, what we have witnessed, is that his previous associations help him to better understand how this group works. And they have their man, Vincent, also looking in to this young man. Right now what links them is that they're both trying to figure out the enigma that is Simon. Now, on the other side of the coin, we have Rachel, a local girl who's just moved to town, and Beth Granger, the Coroner. Rachel, for some reason, almost seems connected to Simon. They have similar interests, and actions. And Simon has come to her defense a couple of times now. She doesn't seem to scare him anymore. Beth is just scientifically interested because of the anomoly that landed on her examination table one day. This book seems to have a lot of twists and turns in it. There is a lot of neat ideas floating around in this work, that make sense, but I've never really thought about before. And anything that can provoke that much contemplation, is definitely doing it's job. So far, I'd have to say, our creators have done a fantastic job with this book. My only question is, why is this a DC title, and not a Vertigo one?