Cruel Universe 2 #8 Cover Preview

 

There's no such thing as safety. Regardless of how things change, life will always present dangers. And as we push our society forward, it also changes us. How will science transform how we live? And will the machines and technologies we develop ever be about to return our love?

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CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #8 (OF 12)

WRITTEN BY MIKE CAREY, MELISSA FLORES, JEFF JENSEN ART BY DANIEL GETE, KANO, LUKAS KETNER COVER A BY MIGUEL MERCADO COVER B BY TOM FOWLER EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD What’s that in the sky? A flaming meteor, hurtling toward Earth? An invading alien armada? No, it’s the latest issue of EC’s Eisner and Ringo Award–nominated science-fiction monstrosity . . . and no one will be spared!  In preparation for the imminent collapse of human society, give into your most deeply buried desires and distract yourself from the flaming ruin that awaits us all as the devious minds of writers Mike Carey (Hellblazer), Melissa Flores (Power Rangers Prime), and Jeff Jensen (Green River Killer) conjoin with apocalyptic artists Kano (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and more to bring our fast-devolving civilization to its much-deserved end. $4.99 | 32 PGS. | FULL COLOR | ON SALE MARCH 4, 2026

 

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COVER B BY TOM FOWLER

 

 

EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS

 

B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER

 

ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD

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Cruel Universe 2 #8 Cover Preview

 

COVER A BY MIGUEL MERCADO

 

Cruel Universe wields cutting edge science fiction with razor-sharp social commentary. Each issue shows us the glorious tomorrows awaiting us while warning us of our Human foibles. What thought-provoking stories are EC Comics and Oni Press bringing our way next?

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CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #8 (OF 12)

WRITTEN BY MIKE CAREY, MELISSA FLORES, JEFF JENSEN ART BY DANIEL GETE, KANO, LUKAS KETNER COVER A BY MIGUEL MERCADO COVER B BY TOM FOWLER EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD What’s that in the sky? A flaming meteor, hurtling toward Earth? An invading alien armada? No, it’s the latest issue of EC’s Eisner and Ringo Award–nominated science-fiction monstrosity . . . and no one will be spared!  In preparation for the imminent collapse of human society, give into your most deeply buried desires and distract yourself from the flaming ruin that awaits us all as the devious minds of writers Mike Carey (Hellblazer), Melissa Flores (Power Rangers Prime), and Jeff Jensen (Green River Killer) conjoin with apocalyptic artists Kano (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and more to bring our fast-devolving civilization to its much-deserved end. $4.99 | 32 PGS. | FULL COLOR | ON SALE MARCH 4, 2026 IOD: 1/31/2026 FOC: 2/9/2026

 

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COVER B BY TOM FOWLER

 

EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS

 

B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER

 

ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD

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New to the Cruel Universe anthology series? See my review of Cruel Universe 2 #5.

Shiver Suspenstories 2 #1 Cover Preview

 

 

The holidays can be tough, especially when you don't feel like you belong. Noah feels isolated and alone at his new school. While his classmates celebrate the Christmas season, he belongs to the Jewish faith. He endures bullying each day because he is an outsider. How can Noah stand up for himself and make friends, or at least put a stop to the bullying? And who else will we meet in the five stories included in this holiday issue?

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SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 2 #1 (ONE-SHOT)

WRITTEN BY DAVID M. BOOHER, MELISSA FLORES, GEORGE NORTHY & BEN H. WINTERS ART BY SAMI KIVELÄ, DAN McDAID, & MORE COVER A BY DUSTIN WEAVER COVER B BY ADAM HUGHES EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY SHAWN McMANUS B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT BY DUSTIN WEAVER ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES AS IF THE HOLIDAYS WEREN’T HORRORIFIC ENOUGH?! EC Comics and Oni Press are BACK to stab your stocking for the second year running with all-new, all-terrifying tales of holiday horror and Christmastime catastrophe as SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES slays again!  In this year’s giant-sized, 56-page tome of gruesomely gift-wrapped delights: We’re tying perpetual naughty-listers David M. Booher (Canto), Melissa Flores (Biker Mice from Mars), George Northy (Yuletide), and Ben H. Winters (Benjamin) to the dried-out Christmas tree in the family parlor . . . and gathering ‘round as artistic Tormentors-in-training Sami Kivelä (Abbott), Dan McDaid (Shazam!), and more surprise guests throw a few lit matches their way to get this old-fashioned solstice sacrifice started in style!   Yes, we know: It smells like dinner might be getting a little overdone! Never fear, because EC’s newest annual tradition also comes complete with an extra-added EC Comics classic—newly restored back to its authentic original coloring! As you sift through the charred remains, just remember: SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES is here to bring the horror back to the holidays . . . and we wouldn’t want it any other way! ON SALE DECEMBER 10, 2025 | $8.99 | 56 PGS. | FC     Here are other cover options:     COVER B BY ADAM HUGHES       EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY SHAWN McMANUS   B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT BY DUSTIN WEAVER   ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES

 

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Shiver Suspenstories 2 #1 Cover Preview

 

Oni Press and EC Comics brings us entertainment with a razor-sharp edge. This month's special, Outlaw Showdown #1, collected tales of life in 19th Century America. Monthly title Catacomb Of Torment probes the darker aspects of life on Earth. The Cruel Universe series ponders the terrors awaiting us when we trade out homeworld for the life among the stars. What dark tidings will they bring us this December? 

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AH! Superstar Adam Hughes Covers EC Comics’ Shiver SuspenStories 2 #1 – And It’s A(H)bsolutely A(H)mazing!

Oni Press is Stabbing Your Stocking in December with 56 Pages of Razor-Sharp Surprise from the Immortal EC Comics, Featuring a Host of Creatives You’ll Die for!

The guest list for this fearful affair features the creative talents of David M. Booher, Melissa Flores, George Northy, Ben H. Winters, Lukas Ketner, Sami Kivelä, Leomacs, and Dan McDaid, as SHIVER SUSPENSESTORIES 2 #1 releases on December 10th!

 

SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 2 #1 (ONE-SHOT)

WRITTEN BY BEN H. WINTERS, MELISSA FLORES, GEORGE NORTHY, & DAVID M. BOOHER

ART BY LEOMACS, LUKAS KETNER, DAN McDAID & SAMI KIVELÄ

COVER A BY DUSTIN WEAVER

COVER B BY ADAM HUGHES

EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY SHAWN McMANUS

B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY DUSTIN WEAVER

ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES

ON SALE DECEMBER 10, 2025 | $8.99 | 56 PGS. | FC

IOC: 10/25/2025

FOC: 11/17/2025

 

YOU’LL NEVER LOOK AT MISTLETOE THE SAME WAY AGAIN! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner- and Harvey Award–winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. is gulping back its excitement to reveal superstar artist Adam Hughes’ (Wonder Woman, Betty & Veronica) gorgeously gangrenous cover  for EC Comics’ SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 2 #1 – coming to comic shops everywhere December 10th! For the second year running, Oni Press and EC Comics are proud to welcome the Eisner Award-winning comics legend to cover duties on our newest annual tradition – a 56-page pyre of perversities so stuffed with holiday horrors that it could only be called…SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES! 

In this year’s giant-sized tome of gruesomely gift-wrapped delights: We’re tying perpetual naughty-listers David M. Booher (Canto), Melissa Flores (Biker Mice from Mars), George Northy (Yuletide), and Ben H. Winters (Benjamin) to the dried-out Christmas tree in the family parlor . . . and gathering ‘round as artistic Tormentors-in-training Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), Sami Kivelä (Abbott), Leomacs (Benjamin), and Dan McDaid (Shazam!) throw a few lit matches their way to get this old-fashioned solstice sacrifice started in style!

Yes, we know: It smells like dinner might be getting a little overdone! Never fear, because EC’s latest installment of this time-honored holiday tradition also comes complete with an extra-added EC Comics classic—newly restored back to its authentic original coloring! As you sift through the charred remains, just remember: Shiver SuspenStories is here to bring the horror back to the holidays . . . and we wouldn’t want it any other way!

 

 

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Featuring frightful, yet frosty covers by Dustin Weaver (Epitaphs from the Abyss), Adam Hughes (Catwoman), Shawn McManus (Fables), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity), EC Comics is proud to deliver this winter’s deepest chill yet on December 10th – only in Shiver SuspenStories 2 #1!

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Biker Mice From Mars #4 Cover Preview

 

COVER A BY EDU SOUZA

The Martian freedom fighters want to protect their fellow mice. But they can't protect people when the extinct Martian volcanos start spewing lava. Throttle, Vinnie, and Modo believe the Plutarkian invaders are responsible. But the rebel leader, Stoker, won't risk deploying their limited forces without proof that the Plutarkians are responsible. 

Carbide's military career has suffered a setback for sharing intel with Throttle. Try as he might, Modo can't keep little Rimfire and Primer from getting into danger. And should they survive all this, will Harley choose Stoker over Vinnie?   

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BIKER MICE FROM MARS #4

WRITTEN BY MELISSA FLORES ART BY DANIEL GETE COVER A BY EDU SOUZA COVER B BY GAVIN SMITH INTERLOCKING VARIANT (1:10) BY JUAN JOSE RYP VARIANT (1:20) BY AJ JOTHIKUMAR The Biker Mice blast into the past! It’s a trip down the mysterious Doctor Hawwki’s short-term-memory lane as Stoker and the Biker Mice pump her for information regarding her involvement with the Plutarkian invaders. What is her connection to RoboForce? How is she involved with the Earth-based corporation Utopia Aegis? And why are the Plutarkians currently after her?  This is it, folks—the issue where (almost) all mysteries are revealed, setting the stage for the next exciting chapter for our intrepid mouse heroes! Let’s rock and ride, courtesy of rip-roarin’ writer Melissa Flores (Power Rangers Prime) and powerhouse artist Daniel Gete (Skin Police)! ON SALE SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2025 | $4.99 | 32 PGS | FC     Here are more cover options:   COVER B BY GAVIN SMITH     VARIANT (1:20) BY AJ JOTHIKUMAR   INTERLOCKING VARIANT (1:10) BY JUAN JOSE RYP

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EC Cruel Universe #2 Preview

COVER A BY LEE BERMEJO

 

This is a cool comic series. Each issue is filled with short Science Fiction stories. The first issue tackled racism, our relationship to our aquatic friends, and the role of anger in reaching for the stars. Yes, Commander Saru, it's okay to scream! EC Comics is worth screaming about!

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EC CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #2 (of 12)

WRITTEN BY CHRIS CONDON, MELISSA FLORES & DAVE WIELGOSZ

ART BY SAMI KIVELÄ, CLAIRE ROE & RILEY ROSSMO

COVER A BY LEE BERMEJO

COVER B BY TOM FOWLER

EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS

B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER

ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD

ON SALE SEPTEMBER 3rd, 2025 | $4.99 | 32 PGS. | FC

IOC: 7/26/2025

FOC: 8/11/2025

 

EMBRACE OBVILION AS YOUR PHYSICAL BODY SACRIFICES ITSELF … ALL IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to reveal a first look at the story “Ham Radio” by Melissa Flores (Power Rangers Prime) and Claire Roe (Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special) from CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #2 (of 12) – the next installment of the Eisner Award-nominated science-fiction anthology series featuring a stellar group of creators forcing readers beyond the brink of reality itself! 

For millennia, mankind has earned to explore the stars. Foolish humans—that was your first mistake! Like a stray space capsule that’s unexpectedly escaped our solar system and is now cursed to rocket forward at ever-escalating velocities that will slowly reduce its crew to a slick film of goo, EC Comics proudly presents a new roster of callously cosmic tales positively oozing with pain, paranoia, and the pent-up regret of human ambition! To copilot this doomed survey of the stars, join writers Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine), Melissa Flores (Power Rangers Prime), and Dave Wielgosz (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) as they execute the logarithmic calculations that could save our explorers . . . only for the danger-defying artists Sami Kivelä (Abbott), Claire Roe (Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special), and Riley Rossmo (Harley Quinn) to bear witness to inescapable galactic calamity of their all-too-human hubris. Whoops!

Yes, human, it has been foretold in our data tablets: You will gaze in slackjawed wonder as CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #2 (of 12) crosses the vacuum of space to deliver new allotments of optical ingenuity in the form of comic book covers by Lee Bermejo (Joker), Tom Fowler (Epitaphs from the Abyss), Albert Monteys (Slaughterhouse-Five), and Malachi Ward (Black Hammer: The End) to begin a eons-long rein of EC Comics-inspired cosmic terror! You wanted to live life as a sentient being … Now pay the price in CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #2 (of 12) – on sale September 3rd!

Plus: Also on sale in September from Oni Press and EC Comics – There’s no rest for the wicked as CATACOMB OF TORMENT #3 presents three tales of fear and frightful persecution fresher than the bludgeoned corpses in your quiet neighbor’s basement! Join our brutally beloved host, the Tormentor, to visit violently vivid vivisections upon our artfully agonizing creators Valeria Burzo (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss), Ryan Haddock (The Brothers Flick), J. Holtham (Hulu’s A Handmaid’s Tale), Sami Kivelä (Abbott), Christopher Mitten (Hellboy & The B.P.R.D.) and Joanne Starer (Fire & Ice) as EC’s brand-new and all-out brutal horror anthology continues its experiments in human anatomy! 

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ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD

 

COVER B BY TOM FOWLER

 

B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER

EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS

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