The Nice House by the Sea Vol. 2

To stay alive after the end of the world, the only path for one group to survive is to destroy the other. The Eisner Award-winning horror epic from James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno escalates in this can’t-miss new volume!

The residents of the House on the Lake and the House by the Sea were both told the same thing by each of their seemingly all-powerful alien masters: that they were the only humans who survived a global apocalypse. Walter chose the friends he was most attached to, and Max chose the most brilliant and competitive high-value humans walking the now-ruined Earth.

The Sea House residents just learned that the only way to continue living is to kill every one of the lovable losers in the Lake House…and with Walter gone, they know exactly how to do it. And what’s worse? Someone within the Lake House has agreed to help them…

Collects The Nice House by the Sea #7-12, the latest chapter of the celebrated horror series that started in The Nice House by the Lake.

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