DC Vertigo is Finally Coming Back to Life in 2026

In 2019, DC’s creator-owned label Vertigo was officially killed as part of the publisher’s restructuring efforts. We learned last year the imprint would come back, and at this year’s New York Comic Con, DC finally unveiled what that’ll look like. Come 2026, Vertigo will have new comics from some of the industry’s biggest western creators hitting shelves, such as…

• Bleeding Hearts (Deniz Camp, Stipan Morian, and Matt Hollingsworth): A zombie named Poke who realizes his heart’s started beating again.
• End of Life (Kyle Starks, Steve Pugh, and Chris O’Halloran): A renowned hitman returns to his hometown in the Midwest to take care of his dying father.
• Black Tower: The Raven Conspiracy (Ram V and Mike Perkins): Wizard spies in the UK battle over sorcery in a “global cold war.”
• The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery (Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips): “Magic, fascism, and a stolen artifact of unimaginable power” meet a noir detective story.
• 100 Bullets: The US of Anger (Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso): The 100 Bullets series has been a DC Vertigo staple, and this new story sees Lono make a violent return back to America.
• Fanatic (Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer): A woman obsessed with a comic book turns her fixation onto its creator.
• A Walking Shadow (Simon Spurrier and Aaron Campbell): Eight strangers wake up chained to a boat in the middle of the woods with no memory of how or why they’re there.
• The Crying Doll (Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell): A “Jekyll-Hyde thriller” about a young woman protecting her best friend, who may be killing people.
• Necretaceous (Tom Taylor and Darick Robertson): To stop a zombie virus, scientists time travel to 66 million years in the past, when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Bleeding Hears will kick off this new run of DC Vertigo titles on February 11, followed by End of Life (February 18) and Brutal Dark (February 25). The other books listed will release throughout the remainder of 2026, and you can see the covers for all of them below.

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