Bleeding Hearts (2025)

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 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 ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT FROM DENIZ CAMP, WRITER OF ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER! A world overrun by flesh-eating zombies is the only world young Rabbit has ever known...and her mother, Cara, has done everything she can to get her ready to survive in it. But she never expected to meet a zombie who seemed to want to help her with this goal!

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 experiencing 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?

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 his two worlds might end up making it for him!

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!

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!