>>>Written by: Joe Hill Art by: Leomacs Covers by: Reiko Murakami
>>>The rain lashes the grassy dunes of Brody Island, and seagulls scream above the bay. A slender figure in a raincoat carries a large wicker basket, which looks like it might be full of melons…covered by a bloodstained scrap of the American flag. This is the story of June Branch, a young woman trapped with four cunning criminals who have snatched her boyfriend for deranged reasons of their own. Now she must fight for her life with the help of an impossible 8th-century Viking axe that can pass through a man’s neck in a single swipe—and leave the severed head still conscious and capable of supernatural speech. Each disembodied head has a malevolent story of its own to tell, and it isn’t long before June finds herself in a desperate struggle to hack through their lies and manipulations...racing to save the man she loves before time runs out.
DAPHNE BYRNE >>>Written by: Laura Marks >>>Art by: Kelley Jones >>>Covers by: Piotr Jab?o?ski
>>>In the gaslit splendor of late 19th-century New York, rage builds inside 14-year-old Daphne. The sudden death of her father has left her alone with her irresponsible, grief-stricken mother—who becomes easy prey for a group of occultists promising to contact her dead husband. >>>While fighting to disentangle her mother from these charlatans, Daphne begins to sense a strange, insidious presence in her own body…an entity with unspeakable appetites. And as she learns to wield this brutal, terrifying power, she wages a revenge-fueled crusade against the secret underworld that destroyed her life.
PLUNGE >>>Written by: Joe Hill >>>Art by: TBD >>>Covers by: Jeremy Wilson
>>>In 1983 the Derleth disappeared, wiped out in a storm on the edge of the Arctic circle—the world’s most advanced research vessel in the hunt for oil, lost in the aftermath of a tsunami.
>>>Almost 40 years later, the Derleth begins to transmit its distress signal once again, calling in to Alaska’s remote Attu Station from the most forlorn place on earth, a desolate ring island in the icy faraway. A US salvage team made up of experts, scientists, and mercenaries helicopter in just ahead of a storm—and the Russian competition—to find the abandoned wreck hung up on the island shores of the atoll. As a wintry blizzard clamps down, anomalies begin to surface: first the samples of an oil with unlikely properties, and then the sonar readings of a sunken prehistoric civilization just offshore. Still, nothing could prepare the salvage team for the reappearance of the Derleth’s crew from the island cave, no older than they were four decades ago, every one of them struck blind by an inexplicable infection…and yet capable of seeing in new ways, possessed of extraordinary powers and stripped of all but their last vestiges of humanity…
THE DOLLHOUSE FAMILY >>>Written by: Mike Carey >>>Art by: Peter Gross >>>Covers by: Jessica Dalva
>>>On Alice’s sixth birthday, her dying great-aunt sends her the birthday gift she didn’t know she always wanted: a big, beautiful 19th-century dollhouse, complete with a family of antique dolls. In hardly any time at all, the dollhouse isn’t just Alice’s favorite toy...it’s her whole world.
>>>Soon young Alice learns she can enter the house, to visit a new group of friends, straight out of a heartwarming children’s novel: the Dollhouse family. As the years pass, Alice finds herself visiting their world more frequently, slowly losing track of where reality ends and make-believe begins. What starts as play concludes in an eruption of madness and violence.
>>>Childhood ends—but that little house casts a long shadow over Alice’s adult life. When the world becomes too much for her to bear, Alice finds herself returning to the dollhouse and the little folk within. The house can offer her a shelter from all her sorrows...but only if she gives it what it wants, and god help her if she tries to walk away again...
THE LOW, LOW WOODS >>>Written by: Carmen Maria Machado >>>Art by: Dani >>>Cover by: J.A.W. Cooper
>>>A mysterious plague is afflicting the small mining town of Shudder to Think, Pennsylvania. It strikes seemingly at random, eating away at the memories of those suffering from it. From tales of rabbits with human eyes, to deer women who come to the windows of hungry girls at night, this town is one of those places where strange things are always happening. But no one ever seems to question why…
>>>THE LOW, LOW WOODS is a gruesome coming-of-age body-horror mystery series about two teenage women trying to uncover the truth about the mysterious memory-devouring illness affecting them and the people of the small mining town they call home—and the more they discover, the more disturbing the truth becomes.
SEA DOGS (backup story) >>>Written by: Joe Hill >>>Art by: TBD
>>>The Revolution is screwed. In 1779 the pathetic American navy is a pile of smoldering wrecks choking the Penobscot River. Imperial Britain has amassed the mightiest fleet the world has ever known, led by the HMS Havoc, a 90-gun second rate that has sunk a forest of French, Spanish and American frigates, sketching a trail of devastation that stretches all the way from St. Kitts to Machias, Maine. The faltering Continental Congress can’t hope to match England’s sea power, and they’re just desperate enough to make a deal with the devil...or even three.
>>>Spymaster Benjamin Tallmadge proposes allowing three lycanthropes to be pressed into British service aboard the Havoc. Three patriotic werewolves might be all it takes to butcher the ship from the inside out and paint the decks red. It’s true, their powers are infernal, their minds are mad and their loyalty can in no way be trusted. And yet what else can a desperate nation do...but let slip the dogs of war?
this one sounds the most interesting, but they all sound a little too similar, and having only read the first volume of Locke & Key i'm still not completely sold on Hill.
Connor Miller
>being excited for a DC product Lol
Chase Kelly
Why are you trying to start company wars?
Wyatt Carter
This title seems like it’ll be similar to he Mid2000’s House of Mystery in that it’ll follow a main plot and have short tale in between it
Jaxson Lee
How do they sound similar?
Elijah Edwards
>pop up I hate that people are using this marketing term DC invented just for this. Call it an imprint please. That's what it is.
Robert Wood
I mean it is a DC imprint and they want refer to it as a Pop up imprint so I don’t see the issue
Nolan Flores
He's mad about Spider-Man
Jacob Garcia
for starters >muh 19th century >muh extraordinary powers
Charles Watson
Did you mean to respond to this post
Blake Thompson
Also only Daphne Byrne takes place in the 19th Century, the only other book that mentions the 19th century is The Dollhouse Family but only as a reference to what style of house the dollhouse is and when it was made
Jonathan Baker
These sounds great, actually.
Jaxson Brown
Bump
Luke Wood
Can’t believe that this line plus YA and Morrison’s GL will be the only thing I’ll buy from DC next year. What the fuck happened?
>killed Vertigo >killed Hanna-Barbera Beyond >killed MAD >killed Tom King’s Batman
They are crashing this plane with no survivors
Eli Wilson
>>killed Tom King’s Batman
I would say King created that mess all on his own
Oliver Edwards
The sandman universe is still going and that's the only part of Vertigo that wasn't trash. HB was good but that was taken away from them because of some ass ravaged HB exec
Gabriel Watson
>Killed Vertigo It was replaced by Black Label, Young Animals, Sandman and Hill House so I’m not even sad. >Killed Mad It died long ago user, by 2005 it’s already a zombie. >Killed Tom King’s Batman He did it himself, and I hope he’ll just off himself the sooner the better. He Bendis and Snyder.
