The Nice House by the Sea #9

Álvaro Martínez Bueno's cover for this ninth issue of DC/Vertigo's The Nice House by the Sea is quietly striking — a dark-haired woman holds a red telephone to her ear while clutching an open book, her composed expression set against a crumbling, vine-overtaken atrium that feels both elegant and unsettling. The image perfectly captures the series' tension between civilized comfort and creeping dread, rendered with warmth and unease in equal measure thanks to Jordie Bellaire's atmospheric color work. James Tynion IV's mature-readers series continues to be one of the more thoughtful genre offerings of 2026.