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ComicsPRO 2026: DC Gives an Update and Tease of more from Vertigo!

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Vertigo is back! After the announcement of its return last year, the first titles of DC’s relaunched Vertigo line have started to hit shelves. During ComicsPRO 2026, DC gave an update on the rollout.

Following the successful launch of Bleeding Hearts, End of Life, and The Nice House by the Sea—with The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery launching February 25—DC shared updates on the forthcoming slate of DC Vertigo titles arriving throughout 2026.

Beginning this summer, Vertigo will publish 100 Bullets: The US of ANGER and Fanatic, followed in the fall by Necretatious and Black Tower: The Raven Conspiracy.

Winter 2026 will see the arrival of The Crying Doll and A Walking Shadow, rounding out the imprint’s first full year of its return.

As revealed during New York Comic Con 2025:

  • The Nice House by the Sea #7 by James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno, and Jordie Bellaire: Following the survivors of Walter’s “hexagon” experiment, the series explores the terrifying consequences of escape…and the threat it poses to what remains of humanity.
  • Bleeding Hearts by Deniz Camp, Stipan Morian, and Matt Hollingsworth: A zombie named Poke discovers his heart beating again, threatening his place in a society where death reigns supreme.
  • End of Life by Kyle Starks, Steve Pugh, and Chris O’Halloran: A top-tier hitman returns to his Midwestern hometown to care for his dying father…and confront his own mortality.
  • The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips: A noir detective tale that collides with magic, fascism, and a stolen artifact of unimaginable power.
  • 100 Bullets: The US of Anger by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso: Lono returns to America and reignites chaos, taking the nation’s darkest impulses to their violent extremes.
  • Black Tower: The Raven Conspiracy by Ram V and Mike Perkins: Wizard spies in the UK navigate a global cold war over sorcery, revealing a hidden world of occult power.
  • Necretaceous by Tom Taylor and Darick Robertson: Scientists attempt to time-travel to stop a zombie virus, only to land 66 million years in the past, among dinosaurs.
  • Fanatic by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer: A woman’s obsession with a comic book spirals into a deadly parasocial fixation on its creator.
  • The Crying Doll by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell: A Jekyll-and-Hyde thriller about just how far a young woman would go to protect her best friend, who may (or may not) be a killer.
  • A Walking Shadow by Simon Spurrier and Aaron Campbell: Eight strangers wake up chained to a boat in the woods. No memory. No escape. No explanation.

Preview: DC’s I Saw Ma Hunkel Kissing Santa Claus #1

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DC’s I Saw Ma Hunkel Kissing Santa Claus #1

(W) Sebastian Bader, Ashley Allen, Dave Baker, Marley Halpern-Graser, Nathan Cayanan, Jadzia Axelrod, Ash Padilla, Steve Orlando (A) Scott Kolins, Bruno Abdias, Nicole Goux, Jon Mikel, MIchael Shelfer, Hannah Templer, Anthony Marques, Riley Rossmo

Ah, the holidays. A time for joy and togetherness, presents and carols… and emotions, drama, and chaos galore. Join our merry gang of heroes and villains as they navigate the highs and lows of holiday romance. Supergirl kicks off her winter vacation with a blind date! Galaxy tries (and fails) to clear her superhero-ing schedule to spend Hanukkah with her sweetheart! And so much more! Warm up your winter with this collection of heartwarming and heart-racing tales coming to shelves this holiday season!

DC's I Saw Ma Hunkel Kissing Santa Claus #1

(Updated) NYCC 2025: DC Reveals the First Wave of Vertigo’s Relaunch

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(Updated with more details and art) After a bit of a tease and false start, Vertigo has gotten a proper launch from DC and full slate announced at New York Comic Con 2025.

Ten titles in total were announced with an interesting mix of concepts and creative teams. They remain creator-owned, an aspect that has helped define the Vertigo brand.

  • The Nice House by the Sea#7 by James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno, and Jordie Bellaire: Following the survivors of Walter’s “hexagon” experiment, the series explores the terrifying consequences of escape…and the threat it poses to what remains of humanity.
  • Bleeding Hearts by Deniz Camp, Stipan Morian, and Matt Hollingsworth: A zombie named Poke discovers his heart beating again, threatening his place in a society where death reigns supreme.
  • End of Life by Kyle Starks, Steve Pugh, and Chris O’Halloran: A top-tier hitman returns to his Midwestern hometown to care for his dying father…and confront his own mortality.
  • The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips: A noir detective tale that collides with magic, fascism, and a stolen artifact of unimaginable power.
  • 100 Bullets: The US of Anger by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso: Lono returns to America and reignites chaos, taking the nation’s darkest impulses to their violent extremes.
  • Black Tower: The Raven Conspiracy by Ram V and Mike Perkins: Wizard spies in the UK navigate a global cold war over sorcery, revealing a hidden world of occult power.
  • Necretaceous by Tom Taylor and Darick Robertson: Scientists attempt to time-travel to stop a zombie virus, only to land 66 million years in the past, among dinosaurs.
  • Fanatic by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer: A woman’s obsession with a comic book spirals into a deadly parasocial fixation on its creator.
  • The Crying Doll by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell: A Jekyll-and-Hyde thriller about just how far a young woman would go to protect her best friend, who may (or may not) be a killer.
  • A Walking Shadow by Simon Spurrier and Aaron Campbell: Eight strangers wake up chained to a boat in the woods. No memory. No escape. No explanation.

The new DC Vertigo slate begins rolling out in February 2026, with The Nice House by the Sea #7 leading the charge on February 4. Bleeding Hearts #1 will publish on February 11, End of Life #1 on February 18 and The Peril of the Brutal Dark #1 will launch on February 25, with the rest of the new DC Vertigo imprint releasing throughout 2026.

A preview comic was released during the convention dubbed “A New Beginning.” In 2024 during New York Comic Con, DC announced the return of Vertigo. Vertigo is the beloved imprint that was shuttered in favor of DC’s Black Label. Vertigo launched in 1993 to publish more adult and graphic content that couldn’t be printed under the 
 Comics Code Authority. It allowed more freedom than the DC line would allow. The line saw such titles as Sandman, American Vampire, Astro City, Daytripper, 100 Bullets, DMZ, Human Target, iZombie, Northlanders, Y: The Last Man, Sweet Tooth, and so much more by some of the best in the business. It relaunched in 2018 for a short return before being shuttered again.

We’ll have more information and art when it’s officially released.

The 39 Clues Book Two One False Note is fun and a mix of Goonies, Indiana Jones, and National Treasure

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Amy and Dan made the choice of a lifetime when they gave up a million dollars in favor of a Clue and joined a competition unlike any the world has ever seen. After barely escaping Paris with their lives, now they’re in Vienna to discover the truth about their famous ancestor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the long-buried secrets connected to his equally talented but overlooked sister, Nannerl.

But with their enemies closing in, Amy and Dan must decide how much they’re willing to risk to find the clues, and who they’re willing to betray in the process…

Story: Gordon Korman
Art: Hannah Templer
Color: George Williams

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Preview: Monster High Pride 2024

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Monster High Pride 2024

(W) Megan Brown, Hannah Templer (A) Siobhan Keenan, Bowen McCurdy (CA) Betsy Cola
In Shops: Jun 05, 2024
SRP: $5.99

Hi, Ghouls. Rainbow-striped flags are flying everywhere, which must mean it’s the best time of year: Pride Month. At Monster High, everyone belongs, and Pride Month is a time to skelebrate and show extra love to the LGBTQIA+ community. First, Hannah Templer and Siobhan Keenan conjure a story about expectations and role models. Clawdeen and Toralei are claws over tails for each other…but their summer DIY project, and a group of mischievous gnomes, is threatening the ghouls’ relationship! Meanwhile, Ghoulia is writing fan fiction and is on the verge of starting a shipping war! Then, Megan Brown and Bowen McCurdy brew a fang-tastic love story. Kieran Valentine thinks love sucks. He enlists the help of his (very cute) Bite-ology partner, Spelldon Cauldronello, to create a potion that will drain him of the feeling forever. But after spending time with Spelldon, will he have the guts to follow through? Get in from the start as IDW kicks off a whole new run of comics set on the most spooktacularly inclusive campus!

Monster High Pride 2024

Preview: Harley Quinn #40

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Harley Quinn #40

(W) Tini Howard, Grace Ellis (A) Natacha Bustos, Hannah Templer
In Shops: May 28, 2024
SRP: $4.99

Driving laws, etiquette, common sense? WHO NEEDS ‘EM. Dat’s right, you finks! I’m continuing my greatest higher education-motivated research assignment to date–being bad! And if that wasn’t enough GETTING SCHOOLED for ya in one issue, my collegiate best friends for life forever and always, Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer, have joined forces to tell the true story of the time I dreamed I was sent back ta school! You’ll be calling me Harley Dangerfield by the end of this one on account of all the respect yer gonna be giving me!

Harley Quinn #40

Small Press Expo 2023: Fish Out Of Water Science-Fiction

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The Small Press Expo has posted all of the programming panels from SPX 2023 on YouTube to watch!

What happens when you wake up one day and your normal existence has completely changed? When you get a job at a lab and wind up cleaning black holes? When the soil you’re investigating has a mind of its own? When you’re recruited from a backwater planet for a noble quest? Moderator Ana Merino joins panelists Tyrell Waiters (Vern, Custodian Of The Universe), Hannah Templer (Cosmoknights), Casey Nowak (Bodyseed), and Julia Gootzeit (Golem Pit 224) to discuss how their characters find themselves in alarming new settings.

Small Press Expo 2023: Fish Out Of Water Science-Fiction

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The Small Press Expo has posted all of the programming panels from SPX 2023 on YouTube to watch!

What happens when you wake up one day and your normal existence has completely changed? When you get a job at a lab and wind up cleaning black holes? When the soil you’re investigating has a mind of its own? When you’re recruited from a backwater planet for a noble quest? Moderator Ana Merino joins panelists Tyrell Waiters (Vern, Custodian Of The Universe), Hannah Templer (Cosmoknights), Casey Nowak (Bodyseed), and Julia Gootzeit (Golem Pit 224) to discuss how their characters find themselves in alarming new settings.

Preview: The Vampire Slayer Vol. 3

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The Vampire Slayer Vol. 3

(W) Sarah Gailey (A) Hannah Templer (CA) Sebastian Fiumara
In Shops: Sep 20, 2023
SRP: $16.99

While Xander gets ready for a monstrous confrontation, he finds a new one in his relationship as well… a fight that could mean the end in more ways than one. But Willow and Faith are one step ahead of Xander. Needing supernatural aid, will Willow push herself to a place she may not be able to return from? Despite Giles’ efforts, they may have to live with an irreversible spell. And as Buffy recuperates from the previous battle that’s left her worse for wear, she’ll team up with someone just as reluctant to do so.

Can Buffy remember who she was and save Willow from herself as well as Sunnydale from total destruction? Writer Sarah Gailey (Eat the Rich, Magic For Liars) and artist Hannah Templer (Flung Out of Space) conclude the first year of the WILLOWVERSE storyline!

Collects The Vampire Slayer #9-12.

The Vampire Slayer Vol. 3

More Small Press Expo 2023 Special Guests Announced!

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Small Press Expo has announced the second list of Special Guests for SPX 2023. The show takes place on Saturday September 9 and Sunday September 10 with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics and an exhibitor floor with over 500 creators.

MariNaomi, Bill Griffith, Nicole Goux, Hannah Templer, Eddie Campbell, Rob Kirby, Joel Priddy, and Raeghan Buchanan have been revealed as Special Guests for SPX 2023.

Additional Special Guests will be announced over the next few days.

MariNaomi

MariNaomi is an award-winning illustrator and banned-book author who must dig into their past in order to come to terms with the death of a close friendship in their latest book I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME from Fieldmouse Press. Using a gorgeous mix of collage and drawing, Mari excavates their own journals, ephemera, and mind to piece together their relationship with Jodie, and why it tumultuously ended.

Bill Griffith

Join Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody’s Fool, to celebrate Three Rocks, a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy.

Nicole Goux

Nicole Goux is an Eisner Award nominated illustrator and cartoonist from Los Angeles. Her latest book that she’ll be signing at SPX is the fantastic Pet Peeves, released in May 2023 by Avery Hill Publishing. Pet Peeves is a magical realist urban horror story that touches on the nature of modern work-lives, creative enterprise and self-destructiveness.

Hannah Templer

Hannah Templer is best known as the writer and artist of the Ignatz-nominated graphic novel series COSMOKNIGHTS (published by Top Shelf, readable online at www.cosmoknights.space), in which a ragtag band of queer gladiators, princesses, and rebels battle the galactic patriarchy through a series of neo-medieval jousting tournaments.

Eddie Campbell

Eddie Campbell started calling his hand-stapled comics “small press” in 1981 when everybody else was saying “alternative” “underground” and “zines.” He takes some pleasure in seeing that the term has stuck. He self-published his comic book BACCHUS for 60 issues as well as the collected FROM HELL (with Alan Moore). His autobiographical concoctions form his favorite strain of his own work. This strain was collected in ALEC: THE YEARS HAVE PANTS and emerges again in his new back-to-back reversible book, THE SECOND FAKE DEATH OF EDDIE CAMPBELL / THE FATE OF THE ARTIST.

Rob Kirby

Rob Kirby will be signing his new book, the graphic memoir Marry Me a Little at the Graphic Mundi table (periodically during the weekend)… Appearing in a spotlight panel… Moderating a panel… Possibly another panel, not sure.

Joel Priddy

Greek myth has inspired stories and art for millennia. And yet some stories and characters remain unfamiliar. First There Was Chaos, by Joel Priddy, explores the formless, primordial, and extraordinary forces that preceded the Olympian gods. These tales of Creation illustrate the creative process, giving cosmic form to the universal struggles of all creators.

Raeghan Buchanan

Raeghan Buchanan will be at SPX this year as part of panels and book signings for “The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero” which is published by Silver Sprocket. The Secret History of Black Punk delvse into the largely overlooked footprint that Black punks have on the underground music scene in a new archival publication. It is an illustrated roll-call for punk, post-punk, hardcore, no-wave, and experimental bands from ground zero ‘til now. A starting point for anyone curious, another reference for those who devour all genre-related things, or a cool artifact for anyone in the know.

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