You'll Never Leave This Place Alive (2026)

Five friends escaped the cage they were raised in. Now they’re learning what it was built to do.After witnessing her best friend’s horrible fate, Phoebe Joplin and the others are trapped in a waking nightmare beneath the only homes they’ve ever known. But when a desperate escape reveals hidden rooms, impossible secrets, and horrors stretching back generations, the truth becomes undeniable. Their perfect community was never meant to protect them. It was built to consume them. From Eisner-nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive #2 deepens the paranoia, expands the mystery, and delivers a brutal, emotionally devastating chapter about inheritance, control, and the terrifying price of perfection.

Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life.Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets.Until the night of their graduation.When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and finds something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.Because this place isn’t a sanctuary.It’s a cage.And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.From Eisner-nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, this paranoia-laced, socially conscious horror mystery will leave you questioning reality…and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream its residents were expecting.