You'll Never Leave This Place Alive (2026)

Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life. Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets. Until the night of their graduation. When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and finds something far more terrifying than she ever imagined. Because this place isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a cage. And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive. From Eisner-nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, this paranoia-laced, socially conscious horror mystery will leave you questioning reality…and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream its residents were expecting.

Five friends escaped the cage they were raised in. Now they’re learning what it was built to do.After witnessing her best friend’s horrible fate, Phoebe Joplin and the others are trapped in a waking nightmare beneath the only homes they’ve ever known. But when a desperate escape reveals hidden rooms, impossible secrets, and horrors stretching back generations, the truth becomes undeniable. Their perfect community was never meant to protect them. It was built to consume them. From Eisner-nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive #2 deepens the paranoia, expands the mystery, and delivers a brutal, emotionally devastating chapter about inheritance, control, and the terrifying price of perfection.

At the beginning, there were five. The treehouse the friends once gathered in is now stained with blood and buried secrets. As Phoebe Joplin uncovers the horrifying truth behind the Gold House and the generations of violence hidden within its walls, she’s forced to confront the reality that everything she believed about her home was a lie.With the architects of a century-old nightmare closing in and nowhere left to run, Phoebe must decide what she’s willing to become to end the cycle once and for all. But some truths are paid for in blood.From Eisner-nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and horror artist Heather Vaughan, you won’t want to miss the epic, shocking conclusion in You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive #3.