Bleeding Hearts (2026-) #4 (Bleeding Hearts

by Deniz Camp, Stipan Morian (Artist)

Kindle Edition

Published May 13, 2026

Reviews

[Machiavelli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Camp and Morian are doing something really special here. This isn’t your standard zombie book, it’s coming at the whole concept sideways and issue #4 is where that really pays off. The tea party scene with Rabbit and Poke is just beautiful, this fragile little pocket of innocence in a world that has no room for innocence. Poke knows it isn’t real. He goes back out and faces what his world actually is. And then he chooses the fantasy anyway. And it costs them. That choice and what follows is gutting in the best possible way, and the cliffhanger hit me like a truck. Morian’s art walks this wild line between cartoonish warmth and real horror and Hollingsworth’s colors make every emotional beat land harder than it should. Camp keeps proving he’s one of the best writers in comics right now. Cannot wait for the next issue.

[Cybernex007 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am in love with this art and color work, especially those slight moments with full page art that just let you linger. One of the big ideas Poke discusses this issue is the hunt involving humans, and how terror can help to season and make them taste better…but you can’t hunt and play with them for too long or they will eventually give up and experience resignation and that tastes awful. This issue feels like it is seasoning us with terror. With only a few living humans left anything they come up with is how it is, so if Rabbit hosts a tea party dance then that’s just how it is…but that doesn’t mean Cara has to be happy about “flower boy” being there with them. But she resigns as what else is there with all the things in the world she knows she will never be able to give her daughter. So they dance and drink tea and Cara keeps a close eye while remembering back to Rabbit’s track record with things like this. How she would take in strays that would end up turning on them. Like the “nice” old man they shared food with but he stole everything while they slept, or the wounded cat which rabbit nursed back to help but scratched her up and ran off when it gained its strength, or even the brown bear rabbit tried to befriend once…and now the flower boy and the very odd way it acts. While Cara was lost in thought she didn’t even notice flower boy pickup and hold Rabbit over his head as they continued to dance, she went for her gun in a panic only to hear it…the child like laughter…her daughter is having fun and flow boy is the closest thing she’s ever had a friend. So Cara sits back down with the “comforting” gun in hand as she cautiously watches.

As Poke leaves he is full of regret, he knows he shouldn’t be cavorting with live ones like this and he promises that was the last time. He seeks comfort in the horde to try and remember who he really is, but the more his heart pumps away the more abstracted from the horde it seems he becomes. Suddenly unhinges-jaw-and-eats-crying-baby-whole isn’t so funny, especially with how he got his name, and Poke doesn’t seem to care about the “out-break” celebration or the same tired old discussions and jokes that go along with it. He starts to wonder what’s wrong with him, but on the bright side everyone is so consumed with this holiday celebrating their undead history that no one has noticed he’s been gone…but of course Mush has. Poke makes the excuse that he has been looking in the woods for live ones to prepare for the out-break celebration, so Mush offers to look with him…it’s the last thing he wants to do so of course they go looking. During this search Poke weighs the option of telling Mush about his situation, but he is sure from his perspective Mush would kill him. Zombie culture revolves around going to a location and not leaving until they have squeezed every drop of life from it. It goes against everything to leave even one living thing uneaten. But Mush has grown weary of Poke, his looks at him with the mushrooms whispering in his ears and the cold red dead eyes and asks what’s been going on with him and what is that strange smell. And all Poke can do is try and push him away, assuring him that they are best friends and nothing has happened. Ultimately Poke leaves without telling Mush anything, as he is sure that if the roles were reversed he would kill Mush. “We are what we are.”

Poke vowed never to see the humans again, but then he realizes he never got a chance to say goodbye. So he walks by the school and yells goodbye from outside. It’s not like they would understand him anyway, but Ben it occurs to him that if they die of starvation it would be a waste of good food. So he makes a dash to the market where he gathers a bunch of food to drop off with them one last time, with the excuse that someday die the like a zombie will have a better meal because he helped to keep these humans alive and fed. But on his final swears it’s his last time trip back to the humans…Mush followed. Poke didn’t stay long, he dropped the food off with a clatter and barely even saw Rabbit before leaving. She wanted to see him again, but as she went over to the door all she found was Mush, who surprisingly knocked her out. Cara jumped into gear to try and fight back to defend her daughter, but she was knocked out as well as Mush picked up both of them. Is the horde mentality coming in here? Will he simply bring them to be a feast for the out-break? Or does he trust his friend a lot more than that?

[Misse Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

So friggin good!

Listen...everything about this issue was so awesome to me. From the tea party where we see Rabbit, her mom and "Flower Boy" get a moment away from fighting zombies to searching for live ones! I love how we see the humanity flow through Rabbit and how Poke helps to provide that for her. It's bittersweet because there's been this tension and build up around someone eventually figuring out that he's been engaging with the live ones.

While an ending is near, there was something about this issue that felt really real. In the way that Poke has these introspective moments where he clearly separates himself from the heard literally and figuratively. As far as we know, he's the only one that has a heart. But then there's also like this quiet before the storm where we see he's been followed because he's been acting suspiciously and who wouldn't follow him to see why, especially his best friend?

Poor Rabbit. In a perfect world, we'd see Apple protect the live ones even if it means his bf kills him.

[Colin Post · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve mentioned this before but one of my favorite aspects of this book is how Morian and Camp play with how humans and zombies perceive each other, even changing the lettering for how humans see zombies speak and vice versa. I also love the lore/culture being slowly elaborated with each issue, done with a kind of ethnographic thick description. Fascinating stuff. The book is also at the core about raising a family at the end of the world, something that feels all too relatable.

[Jason Holtzman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This wasn’t the best issue of the series so far, but it was still good, and this book still feels like something special. I felt the last few pages of this issue were an inevitable event, but I didn’t expect it to happen this soon!

[Andrew Svec · Rating 5 out of 5]

Favorite issue yet. Really enjoying the world building and zombie social culture that’s developed after they took over.

[rafaela (taylor's version) · Rating 4 out of 5]

4, 15

[Andy Waldron · Rating 5 out of 5]

he cant keep getting away with this…