‘The Nice House By The Sea’ #7; ‘Bleeding Hearts’ #1, ‘End of Life’ #1, & ‘The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery’ #1
Publisher Description. DC Vertigo returns in February with four new releases – one new drop every week – featuring award‑winning creators and rising stars. Below, find the full publication schedule, creative teams, variant cover artists, and complete series descriptions. And, there’s more DC Vertigo still to come!
The Nice House By The Sea #7
Release Date: February 4, 2026
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Álvaro Martínez Bueno
Cover(s): Álvaro Martínez Bueno (Main), Max Fiumara, Javier Rodriguez, Cliff Chiang (Variants); Álvaro Martínez Bueno (Connecting Variant)
Format: 40 pgs., Full-Color
Rating: Mature
The residents of the House on the Lake and the House by the Sea were both told the same thing: that they were the only humans who survived a global apocalypse. But while Walter, the mysterious and seemingly all powerful alien master of the Lake House, chose to save the people he’d grown fond of, the Sea House was assembled by another of his species, Max – and she chose the most brilliant and competitive humans. They’ve just learned their only path to survival is to kill every one of the loveable losers in the Lake House… and they know exactly how do it. And what’s worse? Someone in the Lake House has agreed to help them…
Bleeding Hearts #1
Release Date: February 11, 2026
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: Deniz Camp
Artist: Stipan Morian
Cover(s): Stipan Morian (Main); Jae Lee, Nick Dragotta, Chris Bachalo (Variants); Álvaro Martínez Bueno (Connecting Variant); Stipan Morian (Foil Variant)
Format: 40 pgs., Full-Color
Rating: Mature
The zombies won – and ten years after the fall of humanity, they’’re the dominant form of life (or not life) on Earth. They’ve developed their own cultural practices, their own language, their own society.
Mouse Pokes Golf Ball Through Hole In Head (“Poke” for short) is a beloved member of his community, and with his brother in arm Mush, he’s happy to shamble along through the only world he can remember… until the day his heart mysteriously starts beating again. And in a blink, the first humans he sees have stopped looking like food and have started looking like… friends…?
The team behind 20th Century Men, the bold mission statement that launched writer Deniz Camp and artist Stipan Morian to the next level of the comics industry, has reunited to bring you a world ruled by ruthless kill or be killed logic, pitted against the demands of a single beating, bleeding, emotional heart!
End of Life #1
Release Date: February 18, 2026
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: Kyle Starks
Artist: Steve Pugh
Cover(s): Gerald Parel (Main); Seba Fiumara, Rafa Sandoval, Dave Johnson (Variants); Álvaro Martínez Bueno (Connecting Variant); Gerard Parel (Foil Variant)
Format: 40 pgs., Full-Color
Rating: Mature
Professional hitman Eddie Stallion has messed up. He’s accidentally robbed the Raven, a high ranking boss of the international cabal of assassins the Menagerie, of which Eddie is a member… or he was.
Now with a price on his head, Eddie chooses to hide in the one place everyone knows he’d never go… the small midwestern town of Pluto, home of his estranged father and known hard ass George Stallion. Looking for safe harbor, Eddie instead finds his resentful father dying of cancer, old friends looking to collect that bounty, Menagerie assassins who have wandered into town, a cancelled newspaper comic strip creator turned local crime lord, and oh yeah, his childhood first love, too.
Kyle Starks and Steve Pugh, the team behind Peacemaker Tries Hard!, present the story of a man child assassin with some very grown up problems. As Eddie grows more attached to the people of Pluto, he’ll have to step in to solve those problems the only way a hitman knows how!
The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1
Release Date: February 25, 2026
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: Chris Condon
Artist: Jacob Phillips
Cover(s): Jacob Phillips (Main); Tula Lotay, Hayden Sherman, Sean Phillips (Variants); Álvaro Martínez Bueno (Connecting Variant); Jacob Phillips (Foil Variant)
Format: 40 pgs., Full-Color
Rating: Mature
New York City, 1941. Ezra Cain is a private investigator with a reputation for taking it on the chin if it means solving a case. But it’s his former life as an archaeology student that makes him the only man to track down an artifact that’s gone missing from the Museum of Natural History… an ancient anvil said to hold the power of the Greek god Hephaestus. If someone could harness that power, they could bend nations to their will.
Science fiction quickly becomes Cain’s reality when a shadowy sect calling themselves the Brutal Dark appears in the city wielding resources that defy human logic. Now Ezra is the only thing that stands between them and their plot to overthrow America!
Writer Chris Condon and artist Jacob Phillips, creators of the hit series That Texas Blood and The Enfield Gang Massacre, introduce us to a private eye whose business is exposing our deepest secrets… but on this job, he’ll learn that some mysteries are better off buried!
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