First Look: EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #2
EC Comics’ Resurrection at Oni Press Continues Wednesday!
IT’S BACK…AND IT CAN’T BE STOPPED! FOLLOWING THE SMASH-HIT DEBUT OF EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1, THE REIGN OF EC COMICS CONTINUES WITH ANOTHER DOSE OF TERROR AND TORMENT!!!
On August 21st, Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997 – is proud to unveil the first ghastly glimpse inside EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #2!
EC Comics presents another epitaph that’s good until the last balloon pops as five masters of the comics trade unleash three unrelenting nail-biters . . . Trust us: You’d have to CRAZY to miss this issue—or DEAD!
Here’s a look at the cover, the storyline, and preview pages for
this week’s release from Oni Press on New Comic Book Day! #NCBD
EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #2 (of 5)
Written by Jason Aaron, Matt Kindt, and Tyler Crook
Art by Tyler Crook, Klaus Janson, and Jorge Fornés
Covers & Cover Artists:
Cover A by Lee Bermejo
Cover B by Adam Pollina
EC Homage 1:10 Variant by Jay Stevens
B&W Artist Edition 1:20 Variant by Adam Pollina
EC Archive 1:50 Variant by Rian Hughes
ON SALE AUGUST 21st, 2024 | SRP: $4.99 | 32 PAGES | FC
EC COMICS PROUDLY PRESENTS . . .
ANOTHER EPITAPH THAT’S GOOD UNTIL THE BALLOON POPS!In this month’s terrifying festival of fright: Three ALL-NEW tales of depraved intention and traumatic tension-culled from the fingertips of death-addled writers Jason Aaron (Thor, Southern Bastards), Matt Kindt (BRZRKR, Mind MGMT), and writer/artist Tyler Crook (Harrow County), and forever wedded to the bloodstained brushstrokes of artists Klaus Janson (The Dark Knight Returns) and Jorge Fornes (Batman)!
Corrupted even further by the malign influence of cover artists Lee Bermejo (Batman: Damned, A Vicious Circle), Adam Pollina (X-Force, Rise of Apocalypse), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity),
INTERIORS FROM SOUNDS AND HAPTICS BY JASON AARON AND JORGE FORNÉS
EC Comics’ terrifying return barrels forward with fearsome velocity
on August 21st, only in EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #2!
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 Claytan 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.
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