Oni Press is thrilled to unveil two new EC Comics issues: EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #5 and CRUEL UNIVERSE #4! These must-read, spine-chilling tales will be making their mark this November.

The press release follows:

Media Release -- THIS FALL…THE REVENGE-FUELED RETURN OF EC COMICS RAGES ONWARD! Continuing EC's landmark return, Oni Press proudly announces two new murderous, must-read issues in smash-hit series EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #5 and CRUEL UNIVERSE #4! Making their murderous mark on the world this November, find them in comic shops everywhere. . . if you dare!

On November 13th, EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #5 welcomes you back to the Grave-Digger's cemetery on the edge of the endless, black ABYSS that awaits us all . . . some sooner than others, heh heh! Inscribing this month's moribund epitaphs in so much funerary stone, we welcome scribes Matt Kindt (BRZRKR), Matthew Rosenberg (DC vs. Vampires), and Joanne Starer (Sirens of the City) to write our rites of terror as artists Kano (Gotham Central), Alexandre Tefengki (The Good Asian) and more surprise guests rain down torrents of red ink in true and timeless EC Comics fashion!

Featuring covers by Lee Bermejo (Joker), Naomi Franquiz (Tales from Harrow County), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity), don't miss a single blood-soaked page of the series that Capes & Tights calls "extremely well-written with outstanding artwork to complete the package" when The Grave-Digger reveals more tombstone-inspired tales in EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #5 – on sale November 13th!

Then: Only human arrogance would lead us to believe that we are alone in this vast universe. The real question is, who will find us first? Allies to help us grow and flourish as members of larger cosmic society? Or others who would use up the earth for its resources, enslave the human race, and destroy everything we know and love? Do we live in a limitless realm of possibilities, or a deep dark Cruel Universe? Cozy thoughts, aren't they?

While you ponder those questions, you'll find no comfort in the pages of our latest galaxy-annihilating offering CRUEL UNIVERSE #4 this November 6th. . . featuring the astronomical talents of EC veterans Matt Kindt (BRZRKR, Mind MGMT) and Ben H. Winters (CBS' Tracker), while welcoming newcomers Cecil Castellucci (Shade the Changing Girl) and Matt Bors (Toxic Avenger) to the void as their harsh words are brought to terrible fruition by artists Alison Sampson (Hit-Girl), Kano (Gotham Central), and more!

Featuring covers by Greg Smallwood (The Human Target), Kano (Immortal Iron Fist), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity), the countdown to ultimate annihilation continues with more all-new stories of entropy and oblivion from the series that ComicBook.com says "goes above and beyond expectation to deliver…tales of terror that feel both timeless and incredibly contemporary" in CRUEL UNIVERSE #4 – on sale November 6th!

EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #5 (of 12)
WRITERS MATT KINDT, MATTHEW ROSENBERG & JOANNE STARER
ARTISTS KANO, ALEXANDRE TEFENKGI & OTHERS
COVER A LEE BERMEJO
COVER B NAOMI FRANQ
HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) JAY STEPHENS
ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) NAOMI FRANQ
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) RIAN HUGHES
ON SALE NOVEMBER 13th, 2024 | $4.99 | 32 PGS | FC
IOC: 9/26/24
FOC: 10/21/24






CRUEL UNIVERSE #4 (of 5)
WRITERS MATT BORS, CECIL CASTELLUCCI, MATT KINDT & BEN H. WINTERS
ARTISTS DANIEL IRIZARRI, KANO, ALISON SAMPSON & OTHERS
COVER A GREG SMALLWOOD
COVER B KANO
HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) JAY STEPHENS
ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) KANO
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) RIAN HUGHES
ON SALE NOVEMBER 6th, 2024 | $4.99 | 32 PGS | FC
IOC: 9/26/24
FOC: 10/14/24






About Oni Press

Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry's most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, K. O'Neill's Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, Ezra Clayton Daniels' Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler's Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward's diversified global media company, Polarity.

The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.

About EC Comics

As the birthplace of TALES FROM THE CRYPT, MAD MAGAZINE, WEIRD SCIENCE, and more of the most influential and celebrated comic series ever published, EC Comics has cemented itself as one of the central nerves of American pop culture with a legacy that spans more than seven decades. From 1944 to 1956, EC – established as "Educational Comics" by founder M.C. Gaines and later rebranded "Entertaining Comics" under the leadership of Publisher & Editor William M. Gaines – led a creative renaissance for the comics industry that, for the first time, elevated the once-derided comics medium into the echelons of English literature and high art. Heralded as "one of the great explosions of vox-pop literature" by Time Magazine and "fiercely honest, politically adversarial, [and] visually masterful" by The Comics Journal, EC's line of comics books - which collectively sold more than 10 million copies annually at their peak – entertained and informed in equal measure, using brilliantly crafted tales of horror, science fiction, satire, and battlefield conflict to critique and subvert America's dark impulses toward violence, racism, inequity, environmental destruction, and war.

Forcibly shuttered by the Comics Code Authority – a pro-censorship group specifically tasked with eradicating EC's illuminating influence from the American comic book industry – in 1956, EC's unique brand of subversive storytelling lived on through the continued success of MAD Magazine, which would fuel American counterculture through the death of Publisher William M. Gaines in 1992. EC's titles and stories have been adapted in a number of media – including the long-running HBO's long-running TALES FROM THE CRYPT franchise of television series and feature films – and continue to be celebrated by multiple generations of comic creators, filmmakers, comedians, and musicians as a seminal influence.

Today, EC Comics' canon of classic stories can continuously be found in print through new editions at Dark Horse Comics, TASCHEN, Fantagraphics, and IDW Publishing. In 2024, EC announced a new partnership with multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher Oni Press to produce the first all-new EC Comics titles in nearly 70 years.