Today DC has unveiled its full solicits for February 2026 including the debut of the first our titles in the revived DC Vertigo imprint. As revealed at NYCC in October, these four titles – one releasing each week across February – feature award‑winning creators and rising stars. So today we’re taking a look at new cover art for each of those titles.
First up is the return of one of the most celebrated horror series in modern comics, James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno’s award‑winning series, The Nice House by the Sea.
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!
The Nice House by the Sea #7 features a main cover by Álvaro Martínez Bueno and variants by Max Fiumara, Javier Rodriguez and Cliff Chiang.
The Nice House by the Sea #7 releases in stores on February 4, 2026.
Releasing next will be Deniz Camp (Absolute Martian Manhunter) and Stipan Morian’s brutal zombie story with heart (lots of them), Bleeding Hearts #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!
The series debut features a cover by Stipan Morian and variant covers by Jae Lee, Nick Dragotta and Chris Bachalo.
Bleeding Hearts #1 releases in comic book stores on February 11, 2026.
Hitting comic book stores on February 18, Kyle Starks and Steve Pugh bring their over‑the‑top sensibility to End of Life #1, the story of a man‑child assassin with very grown‑up problems.
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 first issue features a main cover from Gerald Parel with variant covers by Seba Fiumara, Rafa Sandoval and Dave Johnson.
End of Life #1 arrives in comic book stores on February 18, 2026.
The final title in the February lineup is The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1. What chance does a 1940s private investigator have against the power of a god? Meet Ezra Cain, created by rising stars Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips.
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!
The first issue features a main cover by Jacob Phillips who also has a foil variant design, plus other variants from Tula Lotay, Hayden Sherman and Sean Phillips.
The first issue of The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery arrives in stores on February 25, 2026.
Each of these four issues features a connecting variant cover designed by Álvaro Martínez Bueno and featuring the main casts from each of these incredible new series.
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?
