Six of Us #1: Tom King and Gabriel Hernández Walta Reunite for a Brutal Hollywood Noir
The show is over. The secrets are not.
Six of Us #1 launches a new seven-issue crime/mystery series from Dark Horse Comics, reuniting writer Tom King, artist Gabriel Hernández Walta, and colorist Jordie Bellaire, the Eisner Award-winning creative team behind The Vision. This time, the team turns its attention from suburban superhero tragedy to Hollywood noir, following the surviving cast of a beloved sitcom after one of their own dies under mysterious circumstances.
The first chapter, titled “The Thing About Me Dying,” arrives on September 9, 2026, and sets up a story about grief, ambition, betrayal, performance, and the ugly truths hidden behind a polished television legacy.
For readers who follow King’s character-driven work, Six of Us #1 looks like another emotionally sharp, mystery-driven series built around damaged people and public lies.
A Sitcom Cast, a Mysterious Death, and a Hollywood Cover-Up
The setup for Six of Us is immediately compelling.
Six actors once built America’s favorite sitcom. Millions watched them every week. Their faces filled billboards. Their fictional friendships became part of pop culture.
Then one of them died.
That death sends shockwaves through Hollywood and forces the surviving cast members to confront the version of themselves they sold to the public. Under the sitcom glow are old rivalries, hidden desires, betrayals, guilt, and the kind of secrets that do not stay buried forever.
The premise works because it takes something familiar — the beloved ensemble sitcom — and turns it into a crime story. The audience remembers the smiles. The cast remembers everything else.
“The Thing About Me Dying”
The first chapter’s title, “The Thing About Me Dying,” gives the debut issue a strong noir hook.
It suggests a story told through memory, confession, suspicion, and aftermath. Someone is dead. Everyone left behind has a version of the truth. The question is whether any of those versions can be trusted.
That kind of fractured storytelling is a strong fit for Tom King, whose best work often explores trauma, performance, identity, and the emotional cost of living inside a role. In Six of Us, the role is not a superhero mask. It is celebrity itself.
The Vision Creative Team Reunites
One of the biggest reasons to watch Six of Us #1 is the reunion of Tom King, Gabriel Hernández Walta, and Jordie Bellaire.
Their previous collaboration on The Vision became one of the most acclaimed Marvel series of the modern era, blending domestic drama, psychological unease, and superhero tragedy. Six of Us looks like a very different kind of story, but it appears to use the same creative strengths: controlled pacing, emotional tension, unsettling quiet moments, and violence that feels personal rather than random.
Gabriel Hernández Walta’s art is especially well-suited to stories where body language matters. A look, a pause, a smile that does not reach the eyes — those details can carry as much weight as a major plot reveal.
Jordie Bellaire’s colors should also be a key part of the book’s mood. A Hollywood noir needs contrast: glamour and rot, warmth and dread, spotlight and shadow.
Tom King Returns to Noir
Six of Us is described as a brutal Hollywood noir, and that phrase fits the premise perfectly.
The story is not just about who died. It is about what the survivors were willing to do while the cameras were rolling, what they hid when the spotlight moved away, and what happens when grief becomes another performance.
King’s bibliography already includes major character studies such as Helen of Wyndhorn, The Human Target, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Love Everlasting, Mister Miracle, The Vision, and The Sheriff of Babylon. With Six of Us, he appears to be returning to the kind of morally complicated storytelling where every character has something to protect.
Hollywood as a Crime Scene
The best part of the premise is that Hollywood itself becomes part of the mystery.
A hit sitcom creates a public fantasy. The actors become symbols of comfort, nostalgia, friendship, and success. But behind that polished image, the cast members are still people: ambitious, jealous, afraid, lonely, and capable of hurting each other.
That makes Six of Us #1 feel like more than a celebrity mystery. It is a story about performance as survival. These characters were paid to look like a family. Now, after a death, the surviving cast has to face whether they ever really were one.
A Seven-Issue Series With Room to Unravel
Six of Us is planned as a seven-issue series, which gives the mystery room to breathe.
That matters for this kind of story. A Hollywood noir built around six former sitcom stars needs space for shifting perspectives, buried history, unreliable memories, and slow reveals. The seven-issue structure should allow the book to dig into each surviving cast member while keeping the central death at the heart of the series.
The first issue introduces the fracture. The rest of the series can pull at it until the whole carefully managed image falls apart.
Cover and Visual Identity
The cover for Six of Us #1 by Gabriel Hernández Walta immediately sells the contrast at the heart of the series.
Five smiling sitcom-style figures sit together on a bench, waving like the cast of a beloved television comedy. Beneath them, however, a chalk outline marks the presence of death. That one image tells readers exactly what kind of story this is: bright nostalgia on the surface, murder underneath.
It is simple, sharp, and effective.
The logo and cover design lean into sitcom familiarity, while the crime-scene detail turns the image into something colder. That makes the cover a strong fit for both comic shop shelves and crime/mystery readers browsing for something with a clean hook.
Release Details
Title: Six of Us #1
Chapter: “The Thing About Me Dying”
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Series Length: Seven issues
Writer: Tom King
Artist: Gabriel Hernández Walta
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Cover Artist: Gabriel Hernández Walta
Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime/Mystery
Publication Date: September 9, 2026
Format: Full Color, 32 pages
Trim Size: 6 5/8″ x 10 3/16″
Price: $4.99
Age Rating: 14+
UPC: 76156801628400111
Why Six of Us #1 Should Be on Your Pull List
Six of Us #1 has several strong selling points.
It reunites the Eisner Award-winning Vision team of Tom King, Gabriel Hernández Walta, and Jordie Bellaire. It has a clean, high-concept mystery premise. It blends Hollywood drama with noir storytelling. It gives readers a seven-issue structure, which suggests a focused beginning, middle, and end.
Most importantly, it has a hook that is easy to understand:
Six sitcom stars became America’s favorite fake family. Then one of them died.
That is enough to pull readers in.
Final Thoughts
Six of Us #1 looks like one of Dark Horse’s most intriguing new launches of 2026.
With Tom King, Gabriel Hernández Walta, Jordie Bellaire, and Clayton Cowles telling a Hollywood noir about fame, grief, rivalry, and murder, the series has the right creative team and the right premise to stand out.
The sitcom may have made them famous, but the mystery may destroy what is left of them.
Join the Discussion
Are you picking up Six of Us #1 from Dark Horse Comics? Are you more interested in the Hollywood noir mystery, the reunion of The Vision creative team, or the seven-issue structure?
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