Chris Condon and Charlie Adlard deal with the devil in this first look at EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #3, on sale September 18th.

The press release follows:

Media Release -- ROLL OUT THE BLOOD-RED CARPET FOR EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS! Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey-Award winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997 – is proud to reveal the first glimpse into infernal depths that await inside EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #3 – the next shocking installment of the EC Comics's smash-hit return from the grave!

On September 18th, your next infamous ish from the immortal EC Comics awaits with three all-new stories of fatalistic spectacle—told with wanton disregard for moral standards or public decency—from six ax-wielding masters of splatter de spectacular: rising star Chris Condon (That Texas Blood) and Eisner Award nominee Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead) in "A Crossroads Repetition"; Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko (Green Lantern: Earth One) and Eisner Award winner Jonathan Case (Green River Killer)'s "A Hand In It"; and Emmy Award winner Jay Stephens (Dwellings) and the maniacal Leomacs (Rogues)' "Blood Type"!

"One of the greatest twist-of-fate stories in American culture comes not from an EC Comic but from the Delta Blues," said writer Chris Condon. "Why did bluesman Robert Johnson die at twenty-seven; the first to enter the entertainment industry's most exclusive club? Was it due to a fateful meeting at the crossroads with a particularly devlish individual with an offer too good to refuse? Well, comics genius Charlie Adlard and I took a long look at this classic idea, spun it into an EC story, and thanks to Charlie's deft handling of the material, came out with something almost lyrical in its execution–a descriptor you don't often hear attributed to EC stories. But make no mistake–our story, 'A Crossroads Repetition', still packs that patented EC punch-in-the-gut that we know, love, and look forward to in every issue of EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS and CRUEL UNIVERSE."

This September 18th, every tombstone tells a tale . . . and the Grave-Digger's cemetery is chock full of 'em, only in EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #3 – featuring covers of staggering artistic audacity from EC masterminds Lee Bermejo (Batman: Damned) Tom Fowler (Refrigerator Full of Heads), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity)!

EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #3 (of 12)
WRITTEN BY CHRIS CONDON, CORINNA BECHKO & JAY STEPHENS
ART BY CHARLIE ADLARD, LEOMACS & JONATHAN CASE
COVER A BY LEE BERMEJO
COVER B BY TOM FOWLER WITH BILL CRABTREE
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS
B&W ARTISTS EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES

ON SALE SEPTEMBER 18TH | $4.99 | 32 PGS | FC
FOC: 8/26/2024












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.