Bleeding Hearts #6 Preview

 

 

Everyone has their favorite holiday. For Poke, it's Out-Break. The annual event unites zombies as a species. As they gather in their holy shopping malls, the zombies look forward to a ritual hunt. But ever since Poke's heart started beating, he's lost his taste for Live Ones. Sadly, his best friend Mush found the mother and daughter Poke was trying to protect. 

Now, Mama is dead. And, as the zombies pursue the few Live Ones they have captured, little Rabbit runs for her life from the hungry horde. Can Poke rescue the girl from his own people? And can he continue to live among them, when their values suddenly seem foreign to him?

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Bleeding Hearts #6 Preview

Writer: Deniz Camp

Artist & Cover Artist: Stipan Morian

Variant Cover Artist: Ariel Olivetti

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 32 Pages

Age Rating: 17+

Price: $3.99 US/Variant $4.99 US (card stock)

Release Date: July 8, 2026

 

 

It’s Time to Party like

You’re Never Gonna Live!

 

 

It’s the 11th Annual Outbreak! For months, hordes all over the world have been preparing to celebrate the unholy origin of our species with a week of Bone-Tower building, ritual Live One hunts, live food, undead music, and so much more! You are what you are—be proud of that and of death’s victory over life!

 

 

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For what happened last time, see my review of Bleeding Hearts #5. 

For what happened before that, see my preview of Bleeding Hearts #4.

For how this series began, see my preview of Bleeding Hearts #1. 

 

Bleeding Hearts #5 Preview

 

 

It can happen without warning. Often, we don't know why. Yet one day, we want something different than we ever did before. Poke may have been an oddball. Still, he was a valued member of the zombie community, and Mush's best friend. Then, without warning, explanation, or desire, Poke started behaving oddly. Or at least, more oddly than he had before. 

So, Mush gives his friend space. He figures sooner or later, Poke will explain things, and life will revert to normal. Then, Mush discovers the worst thing imaginable. Poke has betrayed his community. What happens when Mush realizes that Poke has been feeding and protecting Live Ones? Can things ever be the same between Mush and his friend again?

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Bleeding Hearts #5

Writer: Deniz Camp

Artists & Cover Artist: Stipan Morian

Variant Cover Artist: Chloe Brailsford

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 32 Pages

Price $3.99 US/Variant $4.99 US (card stock)

Release Date: June 10, 2026

 

 

Even Zombie friendships can be tested!

 

 

Can an unwitting act still count as betrayal? Poke and Mush’s friendship is at its breaking point, but can you fault someone for indulging their natural instincts? With Poke’s secret becoming increasingly hard to keep, it may end up being a question he must answer in front of his entire horde, in their most sacred of spaces…a shopping mall!

 

 

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For what happened last time, see my preview of Bleeding Hearts #4. 

For how this series started, see my preview of Bleeding Hearts #1.

 

Bleeding Hearts #4 Preview

 

 

Ten years. That's how long it's taken for the zombies to eradicate ten billion living people from the planet Earth. But in those ten years, they've developed their own society, culture, and government. As supplies of the living dwindle, Poke's heart starts beating again. And when he finds a young mother and her child hiding at an old school, he hides them from his fellow zombies. 

Poke knows he's hurting his community. He fears the others discovering his betrayal. Can Poke help the woman and her child reach safety? And is Poke an aberration, or the beginning of a new phase of zombie evolution?

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Bleeding Hearts #4 Preview

Writer: Deniz Camp

Artist: Stipan Morian

Cover Artist: Stipan Morian

Variant Cover Artists: Juni Ba

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 32 Pages

Price: $3.99/$4.99 Card Stock

Release Date: May 13, 2026

 

Will Poke’s best friend betray him?

 

How do you bond with a human when you have little humanity yourself? Poke is figuring it out firsthand, but his best friend Mush is starting to notice. Poke is disappearing all the time, and when he’s around, he’s barely interested in preparing for the joyous holiday of Out-Break. Doesn’t he want to celebrate the devouring of Live One flesh? Poke has a tough decision to make…but the collision of two worlds might end up making it for him!

 

 

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For what happened last time, see my preview of Bleeding Hearts #3.

 

For how this series began, see my preview of Bleeding Hearts #1. 

Bleeding Hearts #3 Preview

 

When most people become zombies, they go all in, devouring any remaining Humans they find. But Poke is different. While the other zombies gleefully feast on a group of travelers, Poke hides a woman and her child. 

The mother was more optimistic once. She and her husband dared to bring life into a dying world. Now, she fears the zombies, and refuses to grow attached to any Humans she meets. Can she reclaim her belief of returning life and vitality to the world? And can her daughter Rabbit, and a zombie with a beating heart, show the undead community a better way?

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Bleeding Hearts #3 Preview

Writer: Deniz Camp

Artist: Stipan Morian

Cover Artists: Stipan Morian, Nimit Malavia & Stevan Subić

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 32 Pages

Price: $3.99/$4.99 Card Stock

Release Date: April 8, 2026

 

Can a zombie have a change of heart?!

 

Poke returns to his horde after meeting Mama and Rabbit—profoundly changed and a bit confused. He’s experienced things he cannot explain…things like compassion and sadness. He’s tried his best to convince Mama that he means them no harm and that they should stay hidden, but for Mama, trust is something hard-earned. So how much of a risk is she willing to take? And can Poke keep the latest hunting party from descending upon their hiding spot?

 

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Bleeding Hearts #1 Preview

 

 

Poke was like them once. But when he became a zombie, Poke left his humanity behind. Now he hunts humans for their flesh. He finds their hearts especially delicious. But he's never quite adjusted to life as a zombie. So how will Poke react when his heart starts beating again? And how will his community treat him when they realize Poke numbers among the living once again?

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Bleeding Hearts #1 Preview

Writer: Deniz Camp

Artist: Stipan Morian

Cover Artists: Stipan Morian, Jae Lee, Nick Dragotta & Chris Bachalo

Connecting Variant Cover Artist: Álvaro Martínez Bueno

Foil Variant Cover Artist: Stipan Morian

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $3.99/$4.99 Card Stock

Issue Length: 40 Pages

Release Date: February 11, 2026

 

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 started looking like…friends…?

 

The team behind 20^th 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!

 

 

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