Writer: Gregory WidenArtist: LaciPublisher: AWA, Vertigo Entertainment, September 2026 Created and written by acclaimed screenwriter, director, and producer Gregory Widen (the mind behind Highlander, The Prophecy, and Backdraft), The Rising is a 70-page horror one-shot illustrated by renowned artist Laci (Death Ratio’d, Sherlock Holmes). The story takes place in a dying industrial town in the Badlands, where the local industry is a rather unusual one: maintaining an intercontinental ballistic missile base. With the base scheduled for closure, Ray and his daughter Atty are preparing to move on like everyone else. But something is very wrong at the facility. We are introduced to six coma patients have been asleep for forty years following a mysterious accident. Ray begins noticing strange glitches in the missile system. Then Atty discovers something even more unsettling: grass stains on the feet of the supposedly immobile patients. From there, The Rising gradually reveals the horror lurking