EXCLUSIVE: Jock's Variant Cover for Lee Bermejo's Suiciders #1

Suiciders #1 hits stores on February 25, 2015, from the mind of Lee Bermejo. The Joker and Luthor artist is writing and drawing the new series for DC Comics' Vertigo mature-readers imprint, with a twisted look at reality TV and gladiatorial cultures.

DC Comics has provided ComicBook.com with an exclusive look at the 1:13 variant cover from Jock, another artist who made quite the name for himself at Vertigo, and has since gone on to both write and draw his own projects. Check out the full variant here, and the original solicitation text below it.

Suiciders #1

Written by LEE BERMEJO

Art and cover by LEE BERMEJO

1:13 Variant cover by JOCK

On sale FEBRUARY 25 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • MATURE READERS

Retailers: This issue will arrive in stores with two covers. Please see the order form for details.

In the post-apocalyptic city of New Angeles, killing isn't just a crime – it's entertainment.

When the "big one" finally hit the West Coast, Los Angeles was left in ruins. And when the U.S. government decided to cut the city loose, things went from bad to worse. To survive, L.A. did what it does best: It turned survival into entertainment.

Now, thirty years later, the city of New Angeles is thriving once more thanks to the blood sport known as SUICIDERS – a TV series that combines the spectacle of hand-to-hand combat with elaborate, high-tech obstacles that test each competitor's ability to survive. But these competitors have an edge: They've been freakishly enhanced by drugs and technology. The results are both marvelous and monstrous, as the man called The Saint begins to rise above his fellow Suiciders.

SUICIDERS is a dark, post-apocalyptic epic that tells the story of a strange, brutal world, written and illustrated by Lee Bermejo, the #1 New York Times best-selling writer/artist behind JOKER, BATMAN: NOEL, LUTHOR and BEFORE WATCHMEN: RORSCHACH.