EC CRUEL KINGDOM (2024)
In EC's final slash through the realms of fatalistic fantasy, step once more through the vale into a shadowy world of demons and dragons, alchemy and anguish . . . where a fork in the path can bet the difference between untold treasures and certain doom! Leading this month's dark excursions into the weirdest frontiers of wonder: J. Holtham, Greg Pak, Valeria Burzo & more!
Yes, fair reader: The terrible wonders of this CRUEL KINGDOM are far from over! Steel thy wits for more tales of sadistic sorcery as forged in the foundries of the immortal EC tradition! To be revealed in the pages of this forbidden text: All-new, dread-drenched spells of magic and myth summoned from the cauldron via mad wizard by the vaingloriously violent writers Corinna Bechko (Green Lantern: Earth One), Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), among others and etched into uncanny reality by by sword-swinging artists Kano (Gotham Central), and many more!
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EC Cruel Kingdom #1 Cover A Polina
WHERE ONCE A CRUEL UNIVERSE BECKONED . . . NOW A CRUEL KINGDOM SHALL REIGN! Oni Press is proud to unveil a spellbinding new chapter in the distinguished lineage of EC history! Enter: Cruel Kingdom-EC's first-ever dark-fantasy anthology conjuring tales of MAGIC, MYTH, and MURDER from forbidden realms long before our own! Behold the bloody and barbarous age of wizards, knights, and dragons as reimagined in the immutable EC manner as master scribes Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk), Chris Condon (That Texas Blood), Greg Pak (Darth Vader), and Ben H. Winters (Cruel Universe) couple their forces with iron-wrought artists Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), Kano (Cruel Universe), Leomacs (Ghostlore), and Andrea Mutti (Rebels) to forge a terrifying new vision of death, life, and adventure "once upon a time." From the twisted minds that spawned Epitaphs from the Abyss and Cruel Universe, steel thyself for 32+ pages of fatal fantasy and skullduggerous sorcery in one cursed tome of comic book enchantment!
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EC Cruel Kingdom #2 Cover A Pollina
ONCE UPON A TIME . . . BLOOD WILL BE SPILLED! Enter the lost aeon of brave knights, foreboding wizards, and gloriously skull-crushing brutality as EC Comics' first-ever dark fantasy title unleashes its next full-throated battle cry of all-out terror with spellbinding writers Cameron Chittock (Mapmakers, TMNT), Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine), Steve Niles (Thirty Days of Night) alongside enchanting artists PJ Holden (2000 AD), David Lapham (Stray Bullets) Andrea Mutti (Rebels)enthralling talents! No, this is no ordinary storybook-this is CRUEL KINGDOM!
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EC Cruel Kingdom #3 Cover A Pollina
Yes, fair reader: The terrible wonders of this CRUEL KINGDOM are far from over! Steel thy wits for more tales of sadistic sorcery as forged in the foundries of the immortal EC tradition! To be revealed in the pages of this forbidden text: All-new, dread-drenched spells of magic and myth summoned from the cauldron via mad wizard by the vaingloriously violent writers Corinna Bechko (Green Lantern: Earth One), Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), among others and etched into uncanny reality by by sword-swinging artists Kano (Gotham Central), and many more!
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EC Cruel Kingdom #4 Cover A Polina (Mature)
In EC's final slash through the realms of fatalistic fantasy, step once more through the vale into a shadowy world of demons and dragons, alchemy and anguish . . . where a fork in the path can bet the difference between untold treasures and certain doom! Leading this month's dark excursions into the weirdest frontiers of wonder: J. Holtham, Greg Pak, Valeria Burzo & more!