The Eisner Award-winning creative team of The Nice House on the Lake of James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno who shocked the comics industry and unleashed a classic of contemporary horror… are back and no matter what you might think is coming, you aren’t ready for their second act
The residents of the House on the Lake and the House by the Sea were both told the same thing: that they were the only humans who survived a global apocalypse.
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But while Walter, the mysterious and seemingly all-powerful alien master of the Lake House, chose to save the people he’d grown fond of, the Sea House was assembled by another of his species, Max — and she chose the most brilliant and competitive humans.
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They’ve just learned their only path to survival is to kill every one of the loveable losers in the Lake House…and they know exactly how do it. And what’s worse?
Someone in the Lake House has agreed to help them…as The invasion of the Nice House of the Lake begins in The Nice House by the Sea #8
John Pearson Variant Cover
The Nice House by the Sea #8
The invasion of the Nice House on the Lake has begun! Shots have been fired, the walls have been breached… and for some reason, the stars have gone missing from the night sky…
Creative Team
- Writer: James Tynion IV
- Artist: Alvaro Martinez Bueno
- Colorist: Jordie Belaire
- Letterer: AndWorld Design
- Standard Cover: Alvaro Martinez Bueno
- Variant Cover: John Pearson
- Editor: Chris Conroy
- Assistant Editor: Marquis Draper
- Format: Limited 12 Issue Series
- Cover Price/Page Count: $4.99/40 pages
The invasion of the Nice House of the Lake begins in The Nice House by the Sea #8 on shelves and digital platforms March 4, 2026, from DC Comics Vertigo Imprint