Who Can Poke Trust Without Bringing The Whole Horde Down On His Head in Bleeding Hearts #8

By Chad Burdette

on September 28, 2026

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!

Vertigo News:

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… ?

Comic Watch Vertigo Reviews:

Who can Poke trust without bringing the whole Horde down on his head in Bleeding Hearts #8

Variant Cover:

Martin Morazzo Variant Cover:

Bleeding Hearts #8

Poke knows he can’t keep the secret of his beating heart and changing sympathies forever… but who can he trust without bringing the whole Horde down on his head? And what has Rabbit found in her new hiding place

Creative Team

Writer: Deniz Camp
Artist: Stipan Morian
Colorist: Matt Hollingsworth
Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Cover Artist: Stipan Morian
Variant Cover Artists: Martin Morazzo
Executive Editor: Chris Conroy
Assistant Editor: Matthew Levine
Format: Limited Series
Cover Price/Page Count: $5.99/40 pages

Who can Poke trust without bringing the whole Horde down on his head in Bleeding Hearts #8, on shelves and digital platforms September 30, 2026, from DC Comics’ Vertigo Imprint

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