End Of Life #1

KYLE STARKS AND STEVE PUGH TAKE ON A HITMAN IN TROUBLE!

Professional hitman Eddie Stallion has messed up. He’s accidentally robbed the Raven, a high-ranking boss of the international cabal of assassins the Menagerie, of which Eddie is a member...or he was.

Now with a price on his head, Eddie chooses to hide in the one place everyone knows he’d never go...the small midwestern town of Pluto, home of his estranged father and known hard-ass George Stallion. Looking for safe harbor, Eddie instead finds his resentful father dying of cancer, old friends looking to collect that bounty, Menagerie assassins who have wandered into town, a cancelled newspaper comic-strip creator turned local crime lord, and oh yeah, his childhood first love, too.

Kyle Starks and Steve Pugh, the team behind Peacemaker Tries Hard!, present the story of a man-child assassin with some very grown-up problems. As Eddie grows more attached to the people of Pluto, he’ll have to step in to solve those problems the only way a hitman knows how!

Author/Artist: Kyle Starks / Steve Pugh
Publisher: Vertigo
Pages: 32pp
Size: 7 x 10
Notes: saddle-stitched, full color
Release Date: February 18, 2026