Third Eye Spotlight: DC Vertigo 2026

February 23rd, 2026

Third Eye Faithful DC Vertigo is BACK! Started in 1993, DC Vertigo became home to DC Universe adjacent titles before becoming home to all original comics unrelated to the DCU. DC Vertigo went quiet from publishing new titles after 2020. Now, after 6 years, the iconic Vertigo imprint is back!!!

The DC Vertigo imprint originally published titles that had you hyped in the 90s-2000s like Doom Patrol, Swamp Thing, Animal Man, and John Constantine. These comics were more mature and split from the DCU. Now, DC is bringing DC Black Label and DC Vertigo side by side; One for mature reads, and one for more original comics, and Vertigo has an exciting 2026 lineup!

The DC Vertigo 2026 Lineup

James Tynion IV’s Nice House by the Sea

Superstar writer James Tynion IV’s Nice House by the Lake debuted under DC Black Label, and the first 6 issues of Nice House by the Sea followed suit. However, the series is now switching to the DC Vertigo Imprint for original comics!

No one who was invited to the House knew Max — but she knew each and every one of them. Masters of their fields, titans of industry and knowledge, they all represented the best and brightest of humanity. So when Max whispered to each of them the truth of what they deserved — to be saved from disaster, to carry on the flame of civilization in a paradise built just for them — they all leaped at the chance. Why not? Why shouldn’t they be the ones to live forever? Isn’t it their destiny to survive the culling of the lesser herd? Wouldn’t being named the future of humanity be… nice? With the Eisner Award-winning The Nice House on the Lake, honored as Best New Series by the prestigious Angoulême International Comics Festival, James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno shocked the comics industry and unleashed a classic of contemporary horror… and no matter what you might think is coming, you aren’t ready for their second act!

Bleeding Hearts

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

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

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!