Griffin’s Picks for the week of 4/8/2026

1: Twilight Zone #6 - IDW

            Written and drawn by Nicole Goux, this is the first issue of the second volume from IDW’s Twilight Zone and subsequently the first issue to come out since the series was extended beyond its original five issue run. 

            Piper is stuck in a rut. She’s depressed, reclusive and the worst part is that she knows exactly what will make her feel better but feels incapable of doing so. Her friend Cheyenne tells her she needs something to take care of in order to force her into caring for herself. Not long after, fate puts a child-shaped root into Piper’s life that does exactly that, but is she ready for the trials of parenthood? 

            If you could turn my Twilight Zone reviews into a binary, they would fit one of two categories: 1: Feels like an episode of the classic show that we know and love. 2: Feels like a pre-existing story that the creators tweaked a bit to fit the mold. This one falls into the first category in a very modern way (not a complaint either!). It might be recency bias, but for the time being, this is my favorite issue of the series so far.

2: Bleeding Hearts #3 - Vertigo/DC

            Between Bleeding Hearts and The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery, I’m impressed with the current iteration of Vertigo so far. Deniz Camp and Stipan Morian’s book feels incredibly fresh in the landscape of the big two.

            Issue 2 ends with Cara and her daughter, Rabbit being saved from the horde by Poke and this picks up right where that ends, although Cara doesn’t trust Poke’s pure intentions. It doesn’t help that they can’t communicate and Poke barricaded them in a closet because the Zombie Council is meeting in the high school where Cara and Rabbit are currently in. But when Poke distracts the horde from their presence, Rabbit becomes more steadfast in her belief that Poke isn’t a mindless brain-eater while her mother remains suspicious of his intentions.  

My favorite part of this series is that it feels truly distinct from anything else that DC has published in recent memory while not being an Image book in disguise. Right now it looks like only six issues have been solicited but I’m hoping that it gets extended if Camp has more to say on the topic of a zombie growing a conscience.

3: Romeo & Juliet and Godzilla #1 - IDW

            The main story is written by Adam Tierney who hasn’t written a whole lot outside of an issue of Godzilla that came out last week and Yars Rising with art by Sean Peacock. The backup is a Godzilla/Robin Hood crossover, written and drawn by the artist of the original Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre. 

            The main story is really just a retelling of Romeo & Juliet but with Kaiju madness going on in the background. I wish that I had more to say about the story but if you read it in high school then you’ll know pretty much exactly what’s going on. The biggest difference is that basically anytime someone dies, it’s at the hands of a giant monster rather than their original demise.

             Honestly, I was a little disappointed with how similar it was to the plot of the original story. One of the best parts of Tom Scioli’s Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre from a couple years ago was how quickly the plot got off the rails with the addition of Godzilla and how Scioli recontextualizes lines from The Great Gatsby to fit the new version of the story. I thought the backup was a fun time but there wasn’t enough of it to change my thoughts on the book as a whole. If you’re a literature or Godzilla nerd, it’s worth it but otherwise there’s not a ton here for outsiders.