Meet the Would-Be Survivors of the Apocalypse in a Look Inside The Nice House by the Sea

Three years ago, DC blew the lid disconnected the comics manufacture with the motorboat of The Nice House connected the Lake—a tense, gripping communicative of isolation arsenic a radical of friends recovered themselves brought unneurotic to thrust retired the extremity of beingness arsenic we cognize it, guided by an alien being masquerading arsenic 1 of their closest friends. Now, the apocalypse is worthy revisiting... with a caller formed of humanity’s last chances.

In April, DC confirmed that James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno, Jordie Bellaire, and Andworld Design would squad up erstwhile again for a new, 12-issue rhythm of comics acceptable successful the aforesaid beingness arsenic The Nice House connected the Lake with The Nice House by the Sea. Like On the Lake, By the Sea volition diagnostic 10 survivors brought to a lavish abode arsenic the remainder of the satellite falls isolated successful a calamitous doomsday.

Just similar before, those 10 survivors person been brought unneurotic by 1 singular, alien figure, this clip a mysterious being known arsenic Max. But dissimilar On the Lake, By the Sea’s formed are not friends—anything but. Complete strangers, bordering connected outright antagonistic to each other, these 10 survivors besides disagree from By the Sea’s eclectic formed successful that they really got to cognize successful beforehand they were being brought unneurotic to past the extremity of the world... arsenic what they assumed to beryllium the past humans alive.

Image: Álvaro Martínez Bueno, Jordie Bellaire, and Andworld Design/DC Comics

Revealed backmost successful April lone by their professions—the Doctor, the Writer, the Historian, the Actor, the Artist, the Priest, the Scientist, the Singer, the Politician, and the Mathematician—io9 tin present exclusively assistance you enactment immoderate names to the faces of The Nice House by the Sea arsenic portion of our look wrong the archetypal issue.

“Unlike our water house, everyone successful The Nice House by the Sea accepted the deaths of each their friends, family, and loved ones,” Tynion said successful a property merchandise provided by DC erstwhile By the Sea was announced successful April. “They accepted the eradication of the quality contention and their enactment arsenic the past humans that volition ever exist. It’s a information immoderate of them deliberation they tin unrecorded with, but the mode they are surviving with it is by never, ever looking astatine it.”

The archetypal contented of The Nice House by the Sea volition deed shelves Wednesday July 24—click done to spot a preview, arsenic good arsenic the alternate covers for the issue!