DC Vertigo is officially back, and AIPT has your first look at the line’s first wave of titles, complete with preview pages, covers, and full details for every series launching this February.
Revealed at New York Comic Con this past October, the iconic imprint returns with a four-week rollout of bold, creator-driven books—each one showcasing the unsettling, high-concept, deeply human storytelling that made Vertigo a legend. From Eisner-winners to rising stars, this lineup marks the start of a new era.
Connecting variant covers for The Nice House by the Sea #7, Bleeding Hearts #1, End of Life #1, and The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1 by Álvaro Martínez Bueno
Below, you’ll find the full publication schedule, creative teams, variant cover artists, and series descriptions—plus a tease of what Vertigo has planned for later in 2026
THE NICE HOUSE BY THE SEA #7 — On Sale 2/4/26
- Written by James Tynion IV
- Art and cover by Álvaro Martínez Bueno
- Variant covers by Max Fiumara, Javier Rodriguez, Cliff Chiang
- Connecting variant cover by Álvaro Martínez Bueno
- $3.99 US | 40 pages | Variants $4.99 US (card stock)
James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno return to the apocalypse!
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…
The Nice House saga has collected multiple Eisner Awards and the prestigious Best New Series prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, and now is the time to get on board as the action kicks into high gear and the horrors in its pages grow even more grotesque!
BLEEDING HEARTS #1 — On Sale 2/11/26
- Written by Deniz Camp
- Art and cover by Stipan Morian
- Variant covers by Jae Lee, Nick Dragotta, Chris Bachalo
- Connecting variant cover by Álvaro Martínez Bueno
- Foil variant cover by Stipan Morian
- $3.99 US | 40 pages | Variants $4.99 US (card stock)
The red‑hot writer of Absolute Martian Manhunter, Deniz Camp, re‑teams with breakout artist Stipan Morian to unleash Vertigo’s first new #1!
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 — On Sale 2/18/26
- Written by Kyle Starks
- Art by Steve Pugh
- Cover by Gerald Parel
- Variant covers by Seba Fiumara, Rafa Sandoval, Dave Johnson
- Connecting variant cover by Álvaro Martínez Bueno
- Foil variant cover by Gerard Parel
- $3.99 US | 40 pages | Variants $4.99 US (card stock)
Kyle Starks and Steve Pugh take on a hitman in trouble!
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 — On Sale 2/25/26
- Written by Chris Condon
- Art and cover by Jacob Phillips
- Variant covers by Tula Lotay, Hayden Sherman, Sean Phillips
- Connecting variant cover by Álvaro Martínez Bueno
- Foil variant cover by Jacob Phillips
- $3.99 US | 40 pages | Variants $4.99 US (card stock)
Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips introduce a new noir icon!
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!
COMING LATER IN 2026 FROM DC VERTIGO…
100 BULLETS: THE U.S. OF ANGER, created by Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso (Eight issues) — Happy 250th, America. Lono’s back. You won’t survive the year.
A WALKING SHADOW, created by Simon Spurrier & Aaron Campbell (Six issues) — Eight strangers. Four wheels. One light. One ravenous shadow.
FANATIC, created by Grace Ellis & Hannah Templer (Ongoing) — She’s the ultimate fan. And she’ll kill to prove it.
NECRETACEOUS, created by Tom Taylor & Darick Robertson (Ongoing) — There are many theories about the extinction of the dinosaurs. They’re all wrong.
BLACK TOWER: THE RAVEN CONSPIRACY, created by Ram V & Mike Perkins (Recurring series) — Occult warfare was only a fantasy, dead and debunked…at least that’s what they’d like you to think.
THE CRYING DOLL, created by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero‑O’Connell (Eight issues) — Anna might just be a murderer…can Polly save her from herself?
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