In 2003, the Vertigo imprint celebrated "Ten years on the edge" by branding their books cover-dated April 2003 to February 2004 (i.e. released between February and December 2003)—Vertigo's 10th anniversary—with the legend Vertigo X. This special subtitle was debuted on the "Vertigo X Anniversary Preview" (April 2003), a 48-page special previewing Vertigo's upcoming projects and featuring a short "Shade, the Changing Man" story by the "Ecstatic" team of Peter Milligan and Mike Allred (a pun on their then-current Marvel project together: "X-Statix"). Projects highlighted included ', Jill Thompson's first manga-ized version of the "" storyline, retold from the point of view of the Sandman's elder sister Death and Gaiman's own return to the mythos with the hardcover ' all-star collection of short stories spotlighting the seven members of the Endless. (an eight-page "Endless Nights Preview" issue was also released before the hardcover).